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Dark Chocolate Can Help You Manage Stress

Don’t feel guilty for eating dark chocolate, you’re benefiting your health! While you may have heard that dark chocolate is effective in helping your heart, it’s also helping your stress levels. These reduced stress levels also indirectly benefit your physical health.
Dark Chocolate’s Effect on Stress
A study has reported that people who consumed chocolate daily for [...]

Alzheimer’s Disease: Genes Identified for Alzheimer’s Risk

Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating illness for the sufferer as well as family members. Stopping or slowing the development of the disease is essential in helping sufferers beat the its debilitating effects. There are many mysteries of Alzheimer’s but researchers are actively trying to uncover it. One of the mysteries is what puts people at [...]

Bedtime Routines Improve Sleep Quality

A new study published in the journal Sleep reports that people who have a bedtime routine are more likely to have improved sleep quality and less insomnia.
The study looked at retirees with an average age of 75. Researchers used this group because they are more likely to have sleep difficulties due to health and medications. [...]

Choosing Generic Over Brand Named Children’s Medication

With all of the recalls on Children’s Tylenol, many parents are hesitant to purchase Tylenol even after the latest recall is over. So many parents have decided to choose generic Tylenol to treat their children’s aches, pains and fevers. But is it the best choice?
The Benefits of Generic Medications
If you aren’t a generics medication shopper, [...]

How to Cope with Depression During Mother’s Day

While Mother’s Day isn’t perceived as one of the holidays that causes people stress and depression, some people do experience intense sadness.
Mother’s Day can make someone extremely sad if she lost a child or has a sour relationship with one. As everyone else is enjoying time with her families, a mother who has a lot [...]

Why Sleep Helps with Stress Management

If you’re feel especially stressed lately, lack of sleep may be the cause. When you feel overwhelmed, it’s because your body has been at an altered state of stress and then when you’re confronted with more you become overloaded. When you sleep at night, your body repairs itself. It brings stress [...]

Are You Suffering from Heat Stroke?

As the summer approaches, many people are experiencing elevated temperatures inside and outside of their home. It’s important that everyone understands what the symptoms of heat stroke are because they can mimic a heart attack. Both of these conditions are serious and people should seek emergency medical attention.
What to Look for in a Heat Stroke
Before [...]

Telcagepant: Drug for Migraine Headaches

If you’ve tried every migraine headache drug out on the market and still have migraines, you may be in luck.
About Telcagepant
In a report recently published in the The Lancet, Telcagepant is in the class of drugs called triptans. This class usually isn’t very effective at preventing or reducing migraines and have severe side effects for [...]

Top 4 Bad Habits That Decrease Your Life Expectancy

A new study from British researchers have found that four bad habits can decrease your life expectancy by as much as 12 years. These four bad habits are:

Smoking
Drinking alcohol
Eating unhealthy
Not exercising

In the study, there were two groups, health and unhealthy. The unhealthy group had individuals who had all four of the bad habits and more [...]

Stress Management: Cutting Stress with Goal Setting

Everyone deals with stress but some people are able to handle it better than others. While everyone has their own way of dealing with it, there are certain strategies that most “stress-free” individuals utilize – goal setting.
What Is Goal Setting
If you’re a goal oriented person, you like to give yourself some sort of objective and [...]