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Mind/Body Connection: How Your Emotions Affect Your Health

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Mind/Body Connection: How Your Emotions Affect Your Health                                People who have good emotional health are aware of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They have learned healthy ways to cope with the stress and problems that are a normal part of life. They feel good about themselves and have healthy relationships.                              However, many things that happen in your life can disrupt your emotional health. These can lead to strong feelings of sadness, stress, or anxiety. Even good or wanted changes can be as stressful as unwanted changes. These things include: 1)Being laid off from your job. 2)Having a child leave or return home. 3)Dealing with the death of a loved one. 4)Getting divorced or married. 5)Suffering an illness or an injury. 6)Getting a job promotion. 7)E...

5 Ways to Improve Your Skin Through Food

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Ways to Improve Your Skin Through Food 1. Eat Less Inflammatory Foods The biggest culprit are inflammatory foods like dairy, gluten and sugar. If you’re having issues with your skin, those are foods to experiment with eliminating. Try taking them out for two weeks and see if that has any effect. Also, when you bring those foods back in your body will have a more heightened reaction, so you can see how they affect you—gas, bloating, headaches, whatever the symptoms are for you. If you’re eating them all the time, your body has more of a low-grade reaction. We all have varying tolerance levels, but those foods are the general culprits. 2. Only Eat High Quality Dark Chocolate I used to think the advice about chocolate [making you break out] was a myth, but since I’ve started working with an acupuncturist, I’ve been incorporating a lot of Chinese medicine into my practice, and there is something behind the idea that chocolate can be inflammatory. But we’ve a...

Pathophysiology of Acne and acne treatment strategies.

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Pathophysiology of Acne and acne treatment strategies. Acne treatment  is always a popular subject in medical journals and women’s magazines. Acne is a broad term for different skin rashes like pimples and deeper pustules, which are clogging pores. In some instances, when the process goes too deep into the skin, acne leaves permanent scars. Acne is an inflammation of the sebaceous glands as well as hair follicles. This skin disorder usually affects young people during puberty (it is usually between the ages of  10-11 and 24-25 years) . While in  puberty human’s body produces the uncommonly high level of sex hormones. This upsurge of hormones subsequently happens in both girls’ and boys’ organisms and results in the creation of enormous amounts of sebum (an oily product of the sebaceous glands). This oily component irritates and clogs the pores resulting in blemishes that get infected and convert into boils. Usually after puberty, the level of hormones ...

Remedies for Sunburn:

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 Remedies for Sunburn:  These natural home remedies for sunburn will help your skin to heal while soothing pain and inflammation.          Sunburn home remedy: Soak in oats   This breakfast staple also has skin-soothing properties and reduces inflammation to naturally treat sunburn. Stuff an old nylon stocking with oats and place under the faucet as you run some cool bathwater. Soak for 15 to 20 minutes and air-dry yourself so you don’t wipe off the healing oats with your towel. Here’s more about  how to treat a burn—sun-induced or otherwise—using oats . Sunburn home remedy: Add baking soda to bathwater Bicarbonate of soda helps soothe skin inflammation, reduces itching, and helps treat sunburn. Toss a handful into cool bathwater and soak for 20 minutes. Or draw a sunburn soothing bath by combining 2-4 cups of finely ground oats, 1 cup of baking soda, and 1 cup of evaporated milk. All three ingredients fi...

5 ways to de-stress and help your heart

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5 ways to de-stress and help your heart= Managing unhealthy habits key to change - Constant stress — whether from a traffic-choked daily commute, unhappy marriage, or heavy workload — can have real physical effects on the body. It has been linked to a wide range of health issues, including mood, sleep, and appetite problems — and yes, even heart disease. Doctors don't know exactly how chronic stress affects the heart. Most likely, stress triggers inflammation, a known instigator of heart disease, but that hasn't been proven. "I think the conventional opinion is that stress is bad for your heart, but the data are much murkier," says Dr. Deepak Bhatt, director of the Integrated Interventional Cardiovascular Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Yet stress may influence heart disease in more subtle ways. "Stress does cause some people to act in ways that increase their risk for heart disease," Dr. Bhatt says. For example, when stress...

Causes and Effects of Stress

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Causes and Effects of Stress = Your body’s response to stress When you’re faced with stress, certain hormones (chemicals) in your body are released. These hormones trigger many changes in your body. For instance, your: Blood pressure may rise Heart may pound Muscles may tighten Stomach may become tense Stressors may include: Adapting to constant, rapid change Worrying about your finances and the economy Handling a major life event, such as changing jobs or moving to a new home Handling more than one major life event at the same time, for instance, dealing with a family illness while changing jobs Juggling many roles and responsibilities, such as spouse or life partner, parent, friend, employee, and caregiver for aging parents Going from one challenging situation to the next without taking time to relax Being overwhelmed by technology such as, keeping up with cell phone messages, e-mails, and text messages  The long-term effe...

5 habits that are making you lose hair

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5 habits that are making you lose hair If you've noticed thinning or more strands falling out than usual, one of these seemingly harmless things could be to blame. Suddenly seeing clumps of hair on your pillow in the morning or clogging up the shower drain can be scary. But hair loss isn’t just from aging—there are some bad habits that could the cause. An average person loses between 50 and 100 hairs each day, according to the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). If you’re seeing bald patches or thinning, however, read below to see if it’s your behavior that’s the culprit. You’re stressed out If you experienced a traumatic event, like a divorce, your stress could be causing your hair loss. Extreme stress from “the three B’s – bereavement, bankruptcy, and break-up – can knock emotions out and change the cycle of the hair,” says Jerry Shapiro, M.D., an adjunct professor in the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at  NYU Langone Medical Ce...