Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

The simple secret to great sleep (Health.com) — You already know that pregnancy pains and hot flashes can keep you tossing and turning at night. But there’s a host of other, less-heralded health concerns that may be silently interfering with your shut-eye. Here’s how to deal with these stealth sleep stealers, decade by decade. The [...]

Insomnia is deadly for men Insomnia kills. That’s the central finding of a large study looking at men who complained of chronic insomnia and slept fewer than six hours a night. Men with insomnia were more than four times as likely to die as “good sleepers” during the 14-year study, published Wednesday in the journal [...]

Stress: Alabama goes to bat against staff obesity, ties insurance costs to Body Mass Index One in three American adults is obese. Medical costs for obesity-related illnesses (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, some cancers) eat up one out of every six health care dollars. Should obese people pay more for health insurance than those of normal [...]

How Michelle Obama fights stress Michelle Obama’s health tips “I’m a big believer in sleep. I go to bed early, shortly after I put the girls to bed so that I am rested for the next day. For me, getting enough sleep, eating right and exercising reduce my stress levels. And a really good workout [...]

Darker outlook for night owls, study finds A new study, published in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, bears out Africa’s experience: People who tend to stay up late, the so-called “night owls,” have a darker outlook than those who bounce out of bed at the crack of dawn, the “morning larks.”         This [...]