Category: Stress
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A few things
5 comments on A few things1, I am feeling sort of “stuck” these days and it’s getting to the point where it’s pissing me off. 2, A comment in the spam filter got me giggling when it talked about how I might not lose much weight if I exercised but if I were to start exercising I would lose fat […]
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Sleep-Deprived Teens May Pay A Hefty Price
That’s the title of this piece on Yahoo! news about teens who sleep less eating more fats. (Eating more fat = the “hefty price”. Geddit? Amazing how reporters think nobody’s ever made a fat joke before them.) In the study, adolescents who slept fewer than eight hours on a weeknight consumed more of their daily […]
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Music Monday: Still Catch the Tide
I first discovered Talis Kimberly’s song Still Catch the Tide (lyrics) on Seanan McGuire’s album Stars Fall Home. The album version features harp, flute, violin, and guitar, and it’s one of my favorites for yoga. This video is of a live performance that’s a bit of a faster tempo…which is likely appropriate for a Monday […]
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Coffee at Lunch?
The “coffee drinkers are less likely to have diabetes” idea has popped up again, this time focused on those who have coffee with lunch. From the abstract, [T]he hazard ratio in the highest category of coffee consumption [3 cups (375 mL)/d] was 0.73 … in comparison with no coffee consumption. This inverse association was restricted to […]
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Time for what?
This year I was able to take off one day a week from work in December, along with the time between Christmas and New Year’s. Which means this is my first full work week in over a month. I happened to run across this last night, in Kathleen Norris’ book The Cloister Walk: In our […]
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Side Benefits to Exercise
…and I’m not saying anyone has to exercise. Goodness knows a lot of the “Exercise Shoulds” do nothing but spoil the party. But as I’ve tried to let go of the Shoulds and exercise for my own reasons, I’m discovering some things I didn’t expect. I’m generally sleeping better. Less low back pain. Walking or […]
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Mixed Links
A nice piece on beating stress & angst Contraceptive pills may reduce or prevent muscle growth. From an article on being fat and fit: As long as people see physical activity primarily as a way of losing weight, they are unlikely to keep it up, either because it doesn’t achieve that objective quickly or because […]
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What I’m Reading…
An article on public policy vs academic research tackles salt, but I wonder if the same thing could not be said about dieting. If you were an academic researcher, you’d have to persuade your institutional review board that you had considered the risks and obtained informed consent from the participants. […] But if you are […]
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Chronic Stress Tied to Obesity? Hey, Let’s Make Them Thin…
So I was reading about a study that says kids of families with chronic stress were maybe a little more likely to be fat and wondering what else there is about chronic stress and being fat. I run into: Researchers found a molecule the body releases when stressed called NPY (neuropeptide Y). NPY appears to unlock […]
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Optimism
It’s getting tougher these days to think of the glass as half full rather than half empty, but if you’re going to survive this economic crisis – literally – you might as well try. – Time Optimism. This can be hard when 2 people you know lost their job in the last week and a […]
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Bad Marriages Tied to Metabolic Syndrome, or Depression?
You may have seen this article about depression and “metabolic syndrome” being tied to unhappy marriages. Or to be more precise: While both men and women in “strained” unions, those marked by arguing and being angry, were more likely to feel depressed than happier partners, the women in the contentious relationships were more likely to develop high blood […]
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De-stressing
Work was stressful today. I came home feeling out of sorts. Mentally I was punchy; I knew my thinking was a bit slower than usual, but I was still obsessing about work. Physically I was wired – not only was I was busy enough at work that I ‘d forgotten my afternoon walk, but […]
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Why I Should Go to Yoga Tonight…
… even though I’m probably going to want to skip it just on general “it’s my Monday I want to go home and collapse already” reasons. More than 1,000 studies have been conducted to determine whether yoga helps people suffering diseases. Here’s a sample from the medical literature: Depression: Patients diagnosed with depression showed significant […]
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Is fat hysteria damaging?
Well, now, let’s think about this. Besides the negative affects of weight bias, besides the negative effects of the resulting stress, besides the fact that trying to lose weight often results in gaining more, there’s this little gem: [I]n one 1960s test, when hospital patients were given sugar water and told it would make them […]
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