Friday, 30 July 2010
 
 
Popular Health
I Wish You a Healthy Christmas
Dieting and Fitness

Yes, it is possible to enjoy christmas meals and not gain (much) weight

Christmas is time of joy and fun. And of spending a lot of money. And of eating a lot! It is difficult to say which one is worse – that you eat a lot or that you spend a lot but in either case there is an increased risk that you will remember Christmas long after the holiday season is over. Probably this is not exactly what people mean by “an unforgettable Christmas”? And how can you forget Christmas, when your monthly statements for June still show how much of the Christmas shopping is left to pay back or when in mid-March you discover that all your clothes still don't fit you? Sure, you have had an unforgettable Christmas but maybe it is unforgettable not in a positive sense?

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Diets and Health
Dieting and Fitness

Losing weight is important but not when this poses a risk for your health

Diets seem to be a mass obsession, mainly among women, though men are also not immune against it. Well, having in mind the percentage of obese people, it is not a surprise that so many people are interested in diets and dieting. What is surprising, though, is that even people who enjoy a healthy body are pulling the devil by the tail and are also dieting – sometimes without limits, or more precisely they are dieting till they reach the limit of exhaustion and health damage.

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What is Stress?
Soul and Mind

While there is good stress, very often unpleasant events in life lead to stress, which can have serious impact on your health

One hears all the time that he or she is under stress, that stress is causing so many diseases, that stress is killing slowly and so on and so on - stress looks like a mysterious killer that is hiding behind the corner, ready to do its dirty job. But what actually is stress? And how do you know that you are under stress?

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Healthy Weight - Too Fat or Too Thin?
Dieting and Fitness

BMI is a better indicator of body weight than the criteria of Hollywood

If you are a lady and you look at most of the famous female actors, singers, top models and the like, you will inevitably think that you are soooooo fat, that you must immediately start a diet. If you are a guy and you look at most of the famous male actors, singers, models and the like, you will inevitably think that you are soooooo thin and have no muscles at all, that you must immediately rush to the gym and start a weight gain program.

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Stress – To Fight or to Flight?
Soul and Mind

If you want to leave a normal life, you can either adapt to stress, or eliminate the stress cause

There are many ways to deal with stress but basically they boil down to only two – fight or flight. There is an old saying that recommends to join your enemy, if you can't defeat it but certainly this does not apply to stress, though to some degree you can adapt to stress and learn to live with it. Actually, this seems to be the case with most of us – we have become used to stress. Or at least we think so. But is this the best approach?

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Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Addiction
Soul and Mind

Rehab and detox centers can help a lot to treat drug and alcohol addictions

Drug and alcohol abuse and addiction can be treated once and forever and there are many approaches to it. Treatment options vary from consultations with a psychologist, to special medication programs, to rehab and detox centers. Some doctors approach the problem as a medical one, while others treat it as a social choice and depending on their approach, different treatment measures are undertaken. One of the most difficult aspects of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction treatment is that permanent results can be achieved only with the cooperation and the strong will of the patient.

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