Anxiety is the body’s physiological response to external stimuli. Everyone can feel anxious as a response to things, namely stress. How you handle stress, and prevent anxious feelings, depends on your strategies to lead a healthy lifestyle. Anxiety, however, also extends into mental illness. Anxiety disorders vary from panic, to social anxiety disorders. Although the …
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America Surpasses World in COVID Deaths with No End in Sight
Trump’s America is suffering. Whether that will have any impact on the overall culture in America, particularly around politics remains to be seen. In the interim, people are just fighting to survive. Particularly, minorities in major metropolitan centres. Some updated data: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Grief Amidst COVID
It’s often important to name the feelings. During the COVID pandemic there are a lot of new feelings to process. Whether it’s being self-isolated and stuck in bad thoughts. Or if you have the sickness yourself. Part of maintaining good mental health is step one, that discomfort you’re feeling is grief. Once you can name it …
Simple ways to decrease anxiety
Anxiety and mental health are becoming important topics in modern-day culture. We are becoming aware of the impact of our own mental health, what it looks like in others, and how we can manage it. That’s important because the road to health includes tackling mental health issues directly. Anxiety is but one attribute of mental …
The slow creep of anxiety based on life style choices
What are the things that popular culture doesn’t do well is display vulnerability out in the open. Just look at social media. Teenagers, 20-somethings, 30-somethings, with no life experience are influencers about life and living. What do they know about life? Some? But not a lot. There’s more to the IG story then meets the …
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Always get itemized bills in the American health care system
America has among the best healthcare services and expertise available in the free world. That is if you can pay for it. There’s no other developed country in the world that pays more per capita for healthcare, yet they are also one of the few countries on the face of the planet that does not …
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Burnout in the ER
Burnout is a problem for any healthcare profession. Particularly acute are underfunded and overworked departments that fast high paced environments. For example, ER Nurses.
4 Remedies to Reduce Snoring and Get a Better Sleep
Getting a good night’s sleep can mean the difference between chronic health problems and a vibrant lifestyle. When you don’t get good sleep your body can’t reset or repair itself during the night. For men and women, the key to a good night’s sleep is reducing snoring. Here are three natural ways to reduce snoring …
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Reduce Meat Consumption with Vegetables and Save the Planet
Growing in popularity as the request from consumers to know about their carbon footprint. Carbon footprint includes your food. Where your food comes from, from how far, the inputs that are required, all factor in to the environmental impact of the food you eat. What can you do to reduce your footprint? One of the …
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Anti-vaxxers causing measles outbreaks in US
Anti-vaxxers with their pseudo science are causing public health problems wherever they exist. Parents, themselves have been vaccinated, are no longer vaccinating their children. When generations emerged who have never seen the adverse and cataclysmic effects of disease, stupidity and privilege reign supreme. Worst worst part is the victims are always children (and sometimes the …
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