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Nutrients for Reducing Stress

Being a single mom is stressful, but did you know that there are certain nutrients that can help reduce stress and anxiety? There are certain vitamins and minerals that can help you manage your stress levels throughout the day. Vitamin B6 helps your body to produce serotonin, a hormone that produces a calming effect on your body. When your stress levels are high, which is often if you are a single mother, Vitamin B6 is completely depleted throughout your body. Instead of feeling calm, you find yourself on edge, easily irritated, and overwhelmed. Green beans, bananas, and avocados are all … Continue reading →

Handle Stress in Your Marriage

With high mortgages, job losses and the economic situation putting further stress on people, marriages are being affected. How do we cope with the stresses of life and the changes that occur? Some people have seen their future savings for a home or retirement on their investments in the stock market eaten into. Others are struggling day to day just to keep food on the table and the family clothed. I know what that one is like. We spent many years in that situation where experts told you to save but there simply wasn’t anything to save because we’d chosen … Continue reading →

Tips for Dealing with Stress in Marriage

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We’d all like life to be great all the time but the reality is, at times, life is stressful. It’s how we deal with stress that matters. Yesterday, we looked at the effects excess alcohol can cause in a marriage. But the reason a spouse usually drinks to excess, could be because they are trying to find a way to deal with stress. Stress is something that affects all marriages at time, whether it is financial stress, illness, job related, death of a loved one, or family issues – the list is endless. Alcohol never solves problems but actually can … Continue reading →

Want to Know How to Decrease Stress?

Want to know how to ease stress in your life and that of your spouse? Scientists have come up with the answer – to kiss stress goodbye, literally. Displays of affection ease stress levels. That’s the conclusion that scientists have come to, after conducting a week long study with a number of mostly married couples. The act of kissing, ‘unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both sexes.’ Scientists dicovered that the couples that engaged in more physical contact, ranging from holding hands to sexual intercourse, had lower levels of cortisol, in their saliva. Cortisol is often referred to as … Continue reading →

Lose the Stress – Lose the Weight

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Yes, I know. I’ve told you to lay off the soda, get some sleep and now I’m telling you to get rid of your stress. These, of course, are all things that we all want to do but the demands of a busy lifestyle often take precedence and we forget to take better care of ourselves and give our bodies time to relax and sleep eight hours a day. Well, my friends, it just isn’t possible to look healthy without being healthy. The fact of the matter is the biggest hurdle for most of us to lose weight is to … Continue reading →

I Want to Know How to Get Conditioned

Welcome to Monday morning and to the next installment in our I Want to Know series. Mondays are hard days for me, at least lately, with my amount of time spent subbing increasing, I have to be more creative about getting my exercise in along with my writing and time with my daughter. A couple of weeks ago, I asked and you answered. Several of you wanted to know how to get in better condition whether it was just to tone up or to trim down. Exercise is a great way to get the body in shape, the mind sharper … Continue reading →

Want To Lose Weight? Paint Your Kitchen Blue

Have you ever wondered why “Healthy Choice” frozen entrees are packaged in green boxes? Or why fast food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell and Arby’s use the color red in their logos and in their restaurant’s décor? Researchers say a correlation exists between color and appetite. If you understand what it is and learn how to apply it when decorating your home, your entire family could benefit. In lab tests, when volunteers were shown the colors red, orange and yellow, their appetites were stimulated. Conversely, a decrease in appetite occurred when participants were shown the colors blue, indigo … Continue reading →

Tips for Dealing With Survival Mode

Survival mode. When you hear this term used in reference to personal finance, it means that a person of family is on the edge of financial disaster. When a person or family is operating in financial survival mode, stress levels escalate. Their thoughts become predominated with how they are going to get the food, gas, rent and other necessities that they need when they need them or how they will do without until they can get them. Survival mode is no fun for anyone. If parents are stressed out about money, their children feel the effects because they are less … Continue reading →

Great A Skin Graft

I am still having problems with my reconstruction one side won’t close all the way and I was going back into surgery for another attempt at closing it. This is beginning to be ridiculous a surgery a month is crazy. I am ready to get this part behind me. Unfortunately this closer did not work either so our last option is a skin graft to close it. Great more scars. The surgeon decided that he needs to remove a section of skin of about 7 inches on the inside of the right arm. I really don’t understand needing such a … Continue reading →

School Won’t Allow Seizure Alert Dog

Service animals are supposed to get free passes to go anywhere normal pets cannot. According to animal website Paw Nation, that almost wasn’t the case for Alaya the German Shepherd. Alaya isn’t your typical seeing eye dog; in fact, she’s not a seeing eye dog at all. Instead, she comes from Seizure Alert Dogs for Life, a group that trains dogs to recognize the signs of an oncoming seizure and alert the humans present to the imminent attack. She’s able to use her extraordinary talent to help Andrew Stevens. Andrew just wants to be a normal 12-year-old. Most of the … Continue reading →