Reducing Stress Lowers Risk of Cardiovascular Problems
A Review in The Lancet reveals the importance of healthy lifestyle choices to reduce stressors related to cardiovascular risk factors. Researchers from John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore examined records between 1990 to 2006. They observed how stress affects the sympathetic nervous system, impacts physiology, and the effect it has on the cardiovascular system. Lead author, Daniel Brotman, claims "Acute physical stressors such as sugery, trauma, and intense physical exertion are well known triggers of cardiovascular events. Emotional stressors are increasingly recognized as precipitants of such events."
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Insomnia Study
So, what do you do when you can’t fall asleep? Count sheep? Just lay there? Toss and turn and throw the pillow?
Now true, these are all approaches that don’t involve medicine, but they are unfortunately all the wrong things to do!
In fact, they feed the problem of insomnia.
However, the good news is this: there are ways to get a better night’s rest, and not use medicine.
The latest research in the Journal of the American Medical Association in fact compared cognitive behavioral therapy interventions--ways to change the way one mentally approaches insomnia--to medicine like lunesta, the popular sleeping pill.
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Health Wrap - Salty Foods; Nuts; Sleep
A person's liking for salty taste may be related to how much they weighed when they were born.
In a paper looking at two month old babies, lighter birth weight infants showed greater acceptance of salt-water solutions than do babies who were heavier at birth.
The authors believe the early appearance of this relationship suggests that developmental events occur while the baby is in the uterus and may have a lasting influence on an individual's preference for salty taste.
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LONG WORKING HOURS
Do you feel like you work too many hours? Are you fried? Are long working hours leaving you exhausted? Even getting sick from too much time spent at the workplace?
New research says that long working hours can be more harmful than thought.
No question we are a society of people who drive overwork, and make the people we supervise overwork. In fact, one-third of all overtime is mandatory. But in a drive to get more production, are we making our workers and ourselves sick from excessively long working hours?
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SLEEP APNEA AND CARDIOHEALTH
Andre mark found himself in good company when his wife informed him he was snoring-- a lot--and he was diagnosed with sleep apnea.
About 4-percent of middle-aged men suffer from obstructive sleep apnea--a blockage of their airway…that literally stops them from breathing many times a night.
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“I really found that one effect of sleep deprivation was that my appetite grew. I was so hungry I wanted to eat my pillow,” says Matthew Tierney.
Matthew Tierney participated in a study conducted by the University of Chicago which put sleep deprivation and the effects of sleep deprivation on appetite to the test.
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SLEEP, ASTHMA, AND ADHD
Are asthma and sleep patterns connected? Can trouble sleeping affect an asthmatic’s condition? Can troubled sleep and asthma-related symptoms cause someone to develop the symptoms of ADHD? Yes, according to new research, which says that lack of sleep can affect symptoms of asthma, as well as increase the likelihood that a person will suffer from ADHD.
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Could there finally be a cure for snoring?
New data out of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat surgeons) shows a simple implanted device can have significant impact on the lives of people with sleep apnea, and those of their spouses. In some cases it has even helped patients stop snoring altogether.
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