Your Health strategies

No matter how you look at it Men and Women are different.  Sure their different in certain obvious ways but they are also different in how they handle stress and anxiety.  This is to do with psychological and hormonal differences in men and women and makes sense to approach their stress relaxation techniques from different angles. For instance man’s natural response when under stress leans towards fight or flight, where women’s natural response is to nurture or befriend.

With this in mind here are two separate bags of tricks for men and women to find natural stress relief and relaxation techniques to suit them specifically.

Relaxation Techniques for Women

—> Pamper yourself – When your feeling stressed take a long hot bath, go for a walk, go shopping with a good friend or read a book.  Do anything that is about you and no-body else. 

—> Say no – Women tend to put on the superwomen cape and try to do too much for too many people forgetting about themselves.  When you’re feeling really stressed it’s important to consider yourself and how the stress is affecting your own wellbeing.

—> Make sure you have an effective support system – Surround yourself with friends and family that help you to balance yourself.  Look for someone who can be your ‘Rock’ in times of stress or anxiety that can help you to relax and feel balanced.

—> Find a friend who can keep a secret – Find a friend you can confide in and trust to talk things through.  It’s important this person respects your privacy.

—> Talk about it – Tell people your story and let them know why you are so stressed.  Women love to get things out into the open.

Relaxation Techniques for Men

—> Exercise – Men can release stress and anxiety by doing something physical like running, going to the gym, playing some tennis or any sport that gets the blood pumping and releases tension and adrenaline.

—> Spend time alone – Men like to ‘go it alone’ sometimes to have some time by themselves.  This can be an activity like hiking, fishing or other solo activities.

—> Go out with the boys – Go out and play some sport, or any team activity that lets a guy escape their stress and is a good way to unwind.  Men will also use this as a method of companionship.

—> Find a good support system – Even though relationships are very important to women doesn’t mean men shouldn’t have friends they can confide in.  It is important to have someone there that they can trust.

A Relaxation Technique for Men and Women

A good relaxation program can prove to be a useful Natural Stress Relief technique for both men and women.  Relaxation Programs give you structured methods to release built up stress and anxiety to experience true stress relief.  An effective relaxation program should contain stress management techniques, guided meditations and a way of recording your thoughts.

You are what you eat, and if you’re feel like you need some sort of stress relief or you experience anxiety attacks it may have something to do with your diet. 

Let me explain … there are several factors that determine the level of stress and anxiety you experience daily.  They include: your environment, your psychological status, your methods for releasing stress and your diet. Diet has shown to impact how we handle stress at work, our level of concentration and the ability for our bodies to function normally.

There are several parts of your diet you may believe help to relieve stress, but few people are aware that these are the same things that actually cause stress.  Take for instance, smoking.  Many people believe that smoking helps to relieve stress.  But if you read this article you’ll understand smoking is one of the main causes of stress.

Here are some of the foods and drinks you should take in moderation to reduce your stress and experience natural stress relief:

—> Foods that contain caffeine – This is found in coffee, non-herbal tea, chocolate, coke, etc.  Caffeine causes the release of adrenalin which increases the level of stress.  Too much caffeine has the same effect as long term stress on the body. 

—> Alcohol – Excessive consumption of Alcohol stimulates the secretion of adrenaline and is shown to result in nervous tension, insomnia and irritability.  Excess alcohol will deposit fat around the heart and in excess limits the liver from removing toxins from the body.  During stress your body produces several hormones that are normally filtered by your liver.  If your liver isn’t functioning properly, then your body can’t remove the toxins resulting in serious damage

—> Sugar – Sugar has NO essential nutritional benefits what so ever. Sugar provides short burst of false energy that can not sustain the body.  These short bursts of false energy result in irritability, poor concentration and depression.  High consumption of sugar can also result in diabetes.

—> Fat – Avoid foods rich in saturated fats as they place unnecessary stress on the cardiovascular system.  These include: deep fried foods, bacon, sausages, cakes and pies. 

—> Salt – Foods high in salt increase the blood pressure affect the adrenal glands and cause emotional instability.  Look for salt substitutes that contain potassium to still enjoy the flavor of salt without all the nasty side-effects.

These foods mentioned are all Ok in moderation, but should never be used solely as a method of stress relief as they will result negative side affects.

Of course diet is essential in stress relief, but nothing can beat well chosen stress relief techniques like exercise, yoga, a stress relief CD, meditation, relaxation breathing techniques or other beneficial stress management activities.

I saw the news tonight and they did a story on what we've all been talking about. IT'S ABOUT TIME.

For those of us suffering from genitle warts it's important that the media gets behind and talking about the new genitle warts treatments that are being discovered. My genitle warts were completely gone in 3 days and have never come back.

For those of you suffering from genitle warts that still have not seen the genitle warts treatment guide that shows how to completely eliminate genitle warts from your body permanently in 3 days click here.

Let me know what you think.

---

[Wall Street Journal reporter]: July when a South Korean diplomat in eating a sandwich after the very uncomfortable, and then to the hospital for treatment, finally died. In August when the Ministry of Health from the Ministry of Health that the ongoing investigation, and will complete its investigation within a month, could you tell us [...]

Many of us dream to have a lot of it and very few of us have more than we think we need.  It’s one of the 3 main stressors that keep many people awake at night.  Whether you’re living beyond your means or wondering how you’re going to have enough income for retirement all comes down to Money.

When you’re feeling financial pressure it can affect so many other areas of your life.  It can cause stress at work, anxiety attacks, insomnia, arguments, alcoholism, gambling and relationship break-ups just to name a few.

But there has to be something you can do about it, to manage your money and experience real natural stress relief.

With that in mind, here are 5 money management tips for Stress Relief:

—> Understand your worth – before you can live within your means you need to understand what your means are.  Gather a record of all your money, assets, investments and current cash (N.B. although credit cards and lines of credit are additional resources to make purchases, when we tap into them we decrease our spending power over the long haul with bank charges etc.)

—> Track your income – Really take a look at your income.  Measure it over the last 4 weeks or even better the last 13 weeks (the number of weeks in a quarter). Average it out by totaling your overall income and dividing by the number of weeks.  (N.B. Don’t just take 1 weeks wage as an average as you may miss out on overtime, sick days, etc.)

—> Measure your expenses – Once you understand what you are worth and what your income is begin to measure where you money goes.  Carry a small notebook you can pop in your pocket or handbag and make a record of every purchase you make.  Do this for a month to get a real understanding of where you’re spending your money.  Record everything including bills, repayments, where you shopped and the amount you spent.  After the month prioritize your expenses into different categories; essential (food, shelter, rent or mortgage), utilities (heat, water, electricity), loans and leases (car loans), insurances ( home insurance, car insurance, life insurance) and discretionary expenses (other loans, credit card repayments and low priority expenses)

—> Manage Money – Calculating your average monthly income (13 weeks wages divided by 3) and minus your different expenses (if some of your expenses are yearly, then divide the amount by 12 to calculate monthly payments).  This will give you your disposable income.  Use this figure as a baseline for spending.  Ensure you keep at least this much of your wage aside each month (multiply it by 12 and divide by 52 to understand it weekly) and try to put aside a little more each week for that rainy day.

—> Learn to Relax – Financial stress can be a result of the feeling of discomfort over using other people’s money, being in debt, or concerned you may not be able to grow your wealth.  Whatever the case it is important to improve how you can handle money stress.  A good stress relief CD or other relaxation techniques like exercise, relaxation breathing techniques or stress relief programs can help build that threshold and show you how to release and handle unnecessary stress.

Remember, even if you’re stuck in financial stress and your living beyond your means you have the power to change it.  After all, money comes and goes but your health is important.

After having dental extractions, a patient will usually be briefed by the attending dentist about post extraction instructions. Here are a list of instructions I usually give to my patients after having their tooth/teeth out. 1. Bite on the gauze given for at least 20 minutes in order to apply pressure to the extraction wound. This [...]

Are we being brainwashed into buying prescription drugs? Are we all as sick as they want us to believe?

It’s sad, but America has become a country full of drug addicts. The really sad part is that these drugs are totally legal, pushed by doctors, and advertised to you and your children on a daily basis.

Why is it that you never anyone talking about disease prevention? How about a few less purple pill commercials and maybe a story or two on eating a proper diet?

Did you know that most of today’s major illnesses can be prevented without ever taking a prescription drug? In fact, pharmaceuticals do not cure disease they only mask the symptoms. If you really want to take your health into your own hands, start to eat a healthy diet and get off the couch and move around a little bit!

Diet and Exercise can do more to help you than any doctor, surgery or medication ever will. A measly 30 minutes of walking, swimming, or any activity that gets your heart rate up, can have a huge benefit on your health.
So put down the remote and go take a walk

The Pharmaceutical Companies are spending more and more advertising dollars to convince you that you need their product.

These are the most recent Figures:
1996: $985 million
1997: $1.3 billion
1998: $1.57 billion
1999: $2.16 billion
2000: $2.79 billion
2001: $2.95 billion
2002: $2.86 billion
2003: $3.47 billion
2004: $4.16 billion
2005: $4.23 billion
Source: IMS Health

While Prescription medications might work for acute, emergency health, conventional western medicine has done little to prevent most diseases.

Think about this. Have drugs or surgery done anything to reduce the rates of any major diseases over the last 30 years? Cancer, heart disease, Aids, diabetes, osteoporosis , depression, migraines, have these rates gone down at all?

The sad reality is that some of these diseases are actually on the rise. With the Billions of dollars that are spent on prescription medication every year, why are so many Americans getting sick? Americans pay more than any other country for health care and yet we have the worst health in the world.

It is now estimated that over forty percent of the population is taking prescription medicines on a daily basis. What the heck is going on here? Shouldn’t people be a lot healthier? Why have these diseases failed to go away?

Something needs to be done to reform this broken system, we need to get back to healthier natural way of living and leave behind our addiction to prescription drugs.
They have proven themselves ineffective and obsolete.

If you’re like most people, you are probably pretty sick and tired of the health industry, especially The Big Prescription Drug Companies. When the Medications have more side effects than there is something is seriously wrong with the healthcare system.

Remeber this, There are no prescription medications that cure or get rid of the underlying causes of disease. Even the so called “Super meds” are only meant to control your symptoms.

It is time for you to start becoming a skeptical consumer. Know when to say enough is enough! Start investigating what is making you sick, look into natural remedies and check to see if your medications are causing you to have unwanted side effects.

If your doctor doesn’t want to help you explore alternative treatments, Fire Him, and find one who will. There are a lot of very knowledgeable doctors that are starting to jump on the natural health bandwagon. In fact, if enough patients start to demand a change, doctors will have to start listening.

It’s time to take a stand Against Big Pharma!