Pain, in addition to causing physical distress, can cause significant emotional distress, making you mighty cranky, depressed, stressed and anxious. It can turn an ordinary day into a minute-by-minute challenge and shadow you into a sleepless night. While pain sufferers may not concur on just one type of treatment, there is one thing they all agree on: Chronic pain impacts their quality of life in a big way. It’s no wonder mankind has spent centuries searching for ways to alleviate pain — it’s a very common ailment, sadly. According to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, it { Read More }
Meet the Brains and Passion Behind Global Wellness Day
In a perfect world, every day of the year would be wellness day and we'd be well every day of the year. But as you know, the world is not perfect...and sometimes it takes being unwell to realize that wellness deserves a special celebration and day of its very own. Can just one day change your life? That's the idea. It all started with an illness, a vision and a commitment from a special someone to make June 8th a day to celebrate wellness around the world. Eight years ago, it started with one celebration at one Turkish spa, blossoming over the years into events in over 150 countries and 5,000 { Read More }
6 Scary Side Effects of Sitting
It’s been called both dangerous and harmful, and we’re told we are, as a society, doing way too much of it. And that it can hurt our health in a big way. When you hear these descriptions of sitting – something we all do from infancy all the way through to old age – it’s hard to believe something that seems so, well, harmless is instead so harmful. Since physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality, responsible for 3.2 million deaths each year, it makes sense that the epidemic of sitting is the new scary. And the fact is that we are doing { Read More }
So This is Why We Can’t Let Go of Our Cell Phones
I’ve been reading a lot lately about how harmful our phones can be to our health. And these articles aren’t referring to the long-debated concerns about radiofrequency radiation and cancer risk. No, this time they’re suggesting a different animal. There’s an increasing body of evidence that suggests the time spent on our smartphones interferes with everything from sleep to self-esteem. And some suggest that putting down your phone may just help you live longer. We all have a phone. And we all want to live longer. The problem is, we can’t all put down our { Read More }
Ten Things Everyone Over 50 Needs to Know About Strokes
I recently found out that a friend of my husband’s had a stroke a few weeks ago. That jolted me, big time. Although we are in this so-called midlife, after all - and I'm fully aware that health risks increase with age - I suppose I don't feel that we're "old enough" for something like this to happen. But that way of thinking is faulty, and this is proof. My husband is hoping to speak to his friend sometime this week, and I’m sure we’ll learn more then. Although his wife has been in touch and assures us that the stroke was “mild,” it’s still worrisome. And in thinking about it, I realized { Read More }
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