Less Stress Helps Reduce Weight
“I eat when I’m stressed.” Sounds familiar? This is a popular line among people who experience daily stress-triggers such as office problems, family tensions, and relationship dramas. However, the problem doesn’t end in stress-eating. It was discovered that you’ll store more of what you eat when you are experiencing stress. According to a study conducted by the Ohio State University, “Women who experience stress 24 hours before eating a high-fat meal showed the higher levels of insulin an hour after they ate than women who experience less stressful day.” Insulin is a hormone that helps the body store extra calories as fats. Too much of this hormone can cause the body to burn lesser calories in every meal. According to the study coauthor Martha Belury, Ph.D., R.D. that would add up to at least 11-pound weight gain over a year. She added: “Stress hormones, like epinephrine and cortisol, are a major determinant of how many calories you burn at rest.” This study shows the importance of having a less stressful lifestyle in reducing your weight. Having stress is inevitable. You can’t control stressful events. However, you can always manage how you handle day-to-day stress. Enough sleep, healthy food, vitamins/food supplements, and relaxing activities like a body massage can help relieve you of daily tension. Body & Mind helps with emotional management and hypnosis. Using hypnosis removes stress and helps change thought processes. Emotional management will help to remove stressors and triggers that lead to unhealthy eating. Body and Mind uses hypnosis because it allows a natural relaxation response in the body and everyone that is willing can be hypnotized. Mind Clinical Director Rick Saruna states that many people chase weight as the issue when in fact it is the stress that often causes the weight. This is why he always includes stress reduction in all their weight loss processes. Emotional release therapies he uses are both hypnosis and non-hypnotic. It depends on the situation and the individual. For any situation where weight is ongoing one should look at the stress factor. Even if they think they are not stressed there could be underlying triggers that only a trained emotional expert can uncover and remove. It is of utmost importance to find someone that specializes in weight related issues. Rick Saruna of Body & Mind Windsor has been working with stress-related weight for over three decades. According to Saruna: “Many people that are stressed have a weight issue and they do not recognize its stress induced because it has been there for so long and those that know they are stressed have come to accept it. This is the real issue in many weight cases,” . Body and Mind is Windsor’s Best when it comes to weight-loss and stress related issues. Visit the health food store in the Body and Mind clinic for your nutritional needs – and also book a massage with our Registered Massage Therapist Jelena – she is GREAT! You can call the office at 519-948-0078. Body and Mind in Windsor, Ontario.
How Vitamin D Helps in Bowel Cancer Survival Odds
A study shows that bowel cancer patients with high levels of Vitamin D in their system are more likely to survive the disease than those with lower Vitamin D levels. According to the study conducted by the University of Edinburgh: “Patients with the highest level of Vitamin D have half the risk of dying compared to those with the lowest levels.” The research team of the University of Edinburgh tested blood samples from 1,600 bowel cancer patients. The study is the first to correlate total blood levels of vitamin D in bowel cancer patients after their diagnosis – which includes that produced after exposure to sunlight and that obtained from dietary sources – with their long term survival prospects. Vitamin D, also known as sunshine vitamin, helps enhance the absorption of iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc in our body. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), “Vitamin D is essential for the formation, growth, and repair of bones and for normal calcium absorption and immune function.” In the study conducted by University of Edinburgh, bowel cancer patients with stage 2 disease, at which the tumor may be quite large but the cancer cells have not yet spread, have the greatest benefit in Vitamin D. Researchers discovered that 75% of the patients with the highest Vitamin D levels survived the disease after 5 years compared to those with lowest levels. Although the relationship between Vitamin D and better bowel cancer survival odds is yet to be proven further, the researchers are hopeful they will be able to conclude this connection in further studies. The researches aim to set up a clinical trial to test whether taking vitamin D tablets in combination with chemotherapy can improve bowel cancer survival rates. According to the study’s author, Professor Malcolm Dunlop of Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, “Our findings are promising but it is important to note that this is an observational study. We need carefully designed randomized clinical trials before we can confirm whether taking vitamin D supplements offers any survival benefit for bowel cancer patients.” How to obtain Vitamin D? Vitamin D is different from other essential vitamins because our own bodies can manufacture it with sunlight exposure. However, sunlight exposure is not a privilege everyone can enjoy all the time. Adults who have darker skin pigmentation or frequently wear sun protection during outdoor activities are often vitamin D deficient. Also, the effects of global warming have limited the number of hours a person could safely spend under the sun without any skin protection. Food is also a good source of Vitamin D. Foods like fresh tuna, fresh mackerel, fresh salmon, beef liver, soy milk, egg yolk, and cheese. However, acquisition of these types of food depend on the region and availability. Plus, the discovery and use of genetically modified organisms (GMO) affect the freshness of the food and the potency of the Vitamin D present. Vitamin supplements provide agreeably the BEST way of obtaining Vitamin D needed by the body. This is also the best alternative when sunlight is neither enough nor available. Food supplements manufactured by trusted companies are both affordable and effective in providing Vitamin D for the body. Although the vitamin D test is no longer covered by Ontario Health Insurance Plan or OHIP it is a good idea to pay the small fee to get it done. It is a safe bet that if you live in Canada and have limited sun exposure you are most likely low or deficient in vitamin D3. Make sure when you supplement you use D3 as it has a higher potency than D2 and better absorption. How much vitamin D3 to take? It depends on your needs according to health therapist Rick Saruna. He says depending who you talk to you will get different information. Only a blood test can tell you your exact levels. You want to test in the mid upper levels for optimal health. Saruna says much of the newer research is pointing to higher levels than most professionals should be suggesting. Research also shows that if a high level of D is taken for over time there should be a supplementation of Vitamin K as well. Vitamin K however cannot be used with certain medications and there are different types of K. Please ask if you need any more information on this. It is important that when you are looking for supplements you get up to date and correct information. Body and Mind Natural Health in Windsor, Ontario can answer all of your health nutritional questions. Visit the health food store the Body and Mind clinic for your Vitamin D and K and any other nutritional needs. You can call the office at 519-948-0078. Body and Mind in Windsor, Ontario.
Divorce: How It Affects The Children
In the previous article, we discussed about the 10 Reasons Why You Need to Work on Your Marriage. One of the major reasons mentioned on the article is the Negative Impact of Divorce on Children. This article concentrates more on the negative effects that divorce can cause to children including the cost of child support and ongoing legal bills. While divorce can leave married couples emotionally devastated and distrusting, the effects are more severe on the child/children. Most couples view divorce as dissolution of marriage. But for children, marriage is dissolution of family. Below are some of the common effects of divorce on children. Though some of the effects are short-term, without parental care, guidance or counselling from an experienced family counsellor, these effects will result of long-term effects that could aggravate the negativity of a child as he/she grows up. Fear and Guilt First direct effect of divorce on children happens even before divorce is filed by either one or both of the couples. Many children experience fear knowing that their family will be broken. After fear, guilt sets in. Some children blame themselves for their parents’ divorce. Children initially feel bad about themselves when they learn that their parents are constantly fighting. Though some parents don’t directly blame their children for their fights, the children assume that it’s all about them. As a result, children will feel responsible for what happens to their parents’ marriage. Anger and Hate Initially, a child will feel angry at the parent who initiated the divorce regardless of the reason. A child will then show sympathy to the other parent. But as the child grows up and learns about the reasons for the divorce, especially when both parents are at fault, anger may persist and lead to long-term hate against his/her parents. Bullying Children of divorce oftentimes become victims of bullying. Many children from non-divorced parents make fun of children who come from broken families or divorced parents. Since many children of divorce lose self-esteem, they become victims of intimidation, alienation, dominance, and harassment from other children. In other cases, children of divorce become the bullies themselves. It can be associated with the fact that children of divorce experience anger and guilt towards their parents’ separation that they find bullying as a way to vent out frustrations and stress. Poor Brain Development Many children of divorce experience stress early in life upon the divorce of their parents. They exhibit the feeling of neglect, emotional trauma over their parents’ separation, and depression. These factors negatively affect the development of the brain in social, emotional, and academic aspects. In a study conducted by The University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers found out that: “…chronic toxic stress experienced early in life have lasting negative impacts on a child.” Sexual Promiscuity Various American studies have noted that children, majority are girls, from divorced parents are more likely to engage in early sexual behavior that those from non-divorced parents. A groundbreaking research of E. Mavis Hetherington published in her book Effects of Father Absence on Personality Development in Adolescent Daughters suggested that: “Daughters of divorced parents sought more attention from men and engage in sexual intercourse at younger ages compared to other girls.” Another study conducted by Billingham, R. E., Sauer, A. K. & Pillion, L. A. in 1989, Family structure in childhood and sexual attitudes and behaviors during late adolescence. showed that: “People, whose parents were divorced, were more sexually active, had a greater number of sexual partners, had trouble in establishing long-term relationships and had shorter and more numerous love affairs than those who had married parents.” (F. H. JoÂnsson et al.) Sexual Abuse Divorce contributes much to the number of child sexual abuse in Canada and the United States. Children, mostly girls, whose parents are divorced are in greater risk of sexual abuse by men, not their father, living in their home. Based in the previous effect, the need for male-attention of daughters of divorced parents makes them vulnerable to sexual abuse by their stepfathers. A random survey conducted by Diana Russell in 1984 showed that: “Girls living in non-traditional families have been found to be sexually abused by their ‘stepfathers,’ either the married, cohabiting or casual partner of a divorced or single mother, at six to seven times the rate girls are sexually abused by their natural fathers in intact families.” She surveyed 930 adult women in San Francisco and found out that: “7% or one of approximately every six women who had a stepfather as a principal figure in her childhood years, was sexually abused by him. The comparable figures for biological fathers were 2% or one out of approximately 40 women.” Smoke, Alcohol, and Drug Abuse The emotional trauma brought about by losing the family structure because of divorce can take a great toll on the children. Without parental guidance, children resort to what they see fit as a solution or escape from depression. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse or NIDA: “Risk of drug abuse increases greatly during times of transition, such as changing schools, moving, or divorce.” The overwhelming pressure of stress associated with the change motivates children of divorce to engage in substance abuse. Discontent in Life One of the major triggers of divorce is the dissatisfaction by one or both of the married couples in various aspects of their marriage: sexual, emotional, financial, social, etc. The children, however, experience far worse dissatisfaction than the parents who got divorced. The short-term effects, like fear and guilt, that children first experience when their parents divorce became long-term effects and lingered even as they grow up and have families of their own. In a divorce study conducted by Wallerstein in 1985, children of divorced parents were interviewed to determine how they felt when the marriage of their parents was dissolved.After 5 years, Wallerstein made a follow up and found the following results: Persistence of anger at the parent who had initiated the divorce. Intensity of longing for the absent or
Quit Smoking – 95% Success!
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