In most people’s minds, the perfect holiday spread is an assortment of sugary, boozy and fatty dishes that will have you avoiding the bathroom scale well into the new year. However, classic holiday foods like eggnog, candied yams and pecan pie do much more damage than adding to our waistlines. Sugar, for example, causes rapid … Read more
When is the last time you sat and focused on the task at hand? Without doing something else, or thinking about something else, or not wholly doing the job on autopilot. I can answer that for many people, and it’s either never, or a very long while. I too was a victim of the hustle … Read more
We hear the phrase “quality of life” more often than before. That is because this has become the determining factors with which we evaluate how healthy we are living. It is no longer a question of who is the slimmest, or fastest, but instead, who lives with the most sustainable lifestyle that supports longevity. The … Read more
Have you ever had difficulty concentrating or feel like you can’t stop worrying about something? Then you have experienced stress. Stress is your body’s approach to responding to any demand or threat. When this happens, your body’s defense system kicks into high gear in a rapid, automatic process which is known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction … Read more
Goals and resolutions are going to be spoken about greatly in the next few weeks, maybe even months. It’s that time of year again when we all sit down and evaluate what we want and how we’re going to be different this coming year. This might make some people better, while others feel more stressed … Read more
We all stress during finals and find it difficult to concentrate, or sometimes even sleep. For that reason, a post such as this one is essential to better guide students as to how they can optimize their brain-power and increase their concentration levels to better retain information. Get enough sleep This one is obvious, but … Read more
Emotional eating, stress eating, binge eating. All these names point to one horrible habit: compulsive eating. To clarify, it’s eating as a way to deal with your problems. My love and hate relationship with emotional eating started after my family immigrated to the U.S. I was six years old and spoke no English. My only … Read more
There are certain foods out there I wish I knew about before which help decrease your anxiety and stress levels. Below is an outline of what these foods are and the key ingredient in each that helps reduce stress. Turkey Turkey –the most adored food during thanksgiving –is one of the foods that has a … Read more
There is a whole industry that tackles self-development and teaches individuals how to increase their productivity and improve themselves in different aspects of their life. There are multiple facets of development; it’s like an onion really, with multiple layers to be peel and with every layer that is gone, a breakthrough is achieved. To start off, … Read more
In this fast and modern world, stress has become all too common for all individuals. Whether we have to do tasks in our daily life, work or other external, stress is a part of every task. However, the fight against stress and depression started and people wanted to prevent stress. In this journey, an important … Read more