What if relationships were stress reducing rather than stress inducing? Is being “stressed out” the new normal? That is the question raised by the 2012 Stress in America Survey recently released by the American Psychological Association. The survey shows that most Americans are experiencing high levels of stress and that their stress has increased in [...]
Perceived Level of Stress May Help Predict Future Heart Disease Risk
December 17, 2012 | Posted by
Are you stressed? Results of a new meta-analysis of six studies involving nearly 120,000 people indicate that the answer to that question may help predict one’s risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) or death from CHD. The study, led by Columbia University Medical Center researchers, was published in a recent issue of the American [...]
Why Pre-Wedding Jitters Can Naturally Arise
December 17, 2012 | Posted by
Are you feeling anxious about your upcoming wedding? Sick to your stomach? Having bad dreams? Does the sight of the dress fill you with dread? Feeling like you may have made a mistake saying “yes” or proposing? If you answered yes, you are experiencing pre-wedding jitters. This is your subconscious telling you that something is [...]
Financial Tips to Reduce Holiday Shopping Stress
December 11, 2012 | Posted by
The holiday shopping season is upon us which puts gift-buying near the top of our activity lists. As a financial advisor for more than 10 years, I have witnessed what happens when a firm budget is absent from the gift-giving process. Inevitably, money is blown, savings accounts shrink and credit card debt increases. This season, [...]
Holistic Ways of Managing Holiday Stress
November 20, 2012 | Posted by
Many of us live from day to day, not thinking about our health or body until it begins to ache, a joint twinges, or a headache starts. Then we try to fix the problem. But, wellness is cumulative. In our view, wellness requires a holistic, or whole person approach to everyday health. For example, stress [...]
Stress Today Can Affect You 10 Years from Now
November 4, 2012 | Posted by
It is not the stress that’s increasing your risk for health complications, but the way you react to it, says a new study. Researchers from Penn State have found that the way people react to stress affects their health 10 years later and that young, intelligent and educated people are more likely to be stressful. [...]
The Many Hidden Health Risks of Chronic Stress
September 23, 2012 | Posted by
According to a recent American Psychological Association poll, nearly a quarter of Americans confessed to currently feeling under “extreme stress.” Respondents especially blamed money, work, and the economy—a feeling 50-year-old Sue Wasserman knows all too well. In February, the public relations manager left Atlanta after her job was eliminated by a corporate restructuring and took [...]
Stress Dangerously Elevates Black People’s Sodium, Blood Pressure
September 9, 2012 | Posted by
When stressed, about 30 percent of blacks hold onto too much sodium, the equivalent of eating a small order of fast food French fries or a small bag of potato chips, researchers say. “This response pattern puts you under a greater blood pressure load over the course of the day and probably throughout the night [...]
Study: Sleep Deprivation Raises Your Risk of Stroke
July 10, 2012 | Posted by
Stress and sleep loss can each raise your stroke risk, even for young and healthy people, according to a new study released by researchers in the Netherlands. The scientists determined that for healthy young men whose sleep was restricted in the lab, their white blood cell count spiked as if their immune system had been [...]
