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Tunnel vision is usually used to describe someone with a narrow point of view. Taken literally however, it can describe the type of vision that results with untreated glaucoma.
Night shifts, or working from evening to morning, can be rough on your body and mind. Your meal patterns can become confused. Sleeping patterns can become thrown off course.
Probiotics have become the talk of the town, and for good reason. Every day more research shows that taking probiotics can reduce inflammation in the gut, and in turn, may help reduce risk of inflammatory conditions such as heart disease, eczema, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Whether you walk, run, swim, cycle, or dance, exercise is a great way to keep your heart in tip top shape. Exercise is also recommended for weight loss, controlling blood glucose levels, and even for helping reduce stress by releasing endorphins.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. It accounts for one in four deaths each year.
When you don’t get enough sleep, it can affect your whole day. You may move slower, have less energy, your mind may have a hard time learning or remembering things, and you may be more easily stressed and irritated.
So much focus is placed on diet and exercise to stay healthy, that sometimes mental health care can be forgotten. However, the health of both mind and body is important to be in your best state of health.
Sleep. Work. Eat. Repeat. Does that sound like your day, or something like it? Sleep is often set aside as just something that a person does at the end of the day. It is often overlooked as a very important part of optimal health.
Everywhere you look you may see an ad for a new diet program that promises to help you lose weight. Many people get sucked into the idea that they can lose weight fast on fad diets.
You’ve probably heard of trans fats before. And I’m sure what you have heard was not good news. This new news is not much different, except that the World Health Organization just announced that it plans to eliminate synthetic trans fats completely from the food supply by the year 2023.
With ever-increasing demands in our work schedules and family obligations as well as financial stress and personal stresses it is no surprise that anxiety is on the rise.
Yet another reason to eat chocolate, as if you needed one. Besides tasting delicious, chocolate has many health benefits.