How To Prevent Osteoporosis According to government figures hip fractures cause more than 1150 premature deaths each month in the UK. By the age of 75 around half the population have osteoporosis, because as we get older our bones become more fragile and likely to break or fracture. Your risk is dependent on many factors and you can't do anything about changing most of those, but you can do something to help prevent osteoporosis.Keywords:
AnnA Rushton, osteoporosis, menopause, HRT, natural progesterone Overcoming Stress and Staying Healthy Stress can destroy your health, happiness and relationships. I know, because it affected me so much I couldn't sleep, ate too much and snapped at everyone around me. As a health writer for 20 years I realized I knew a lot about how to deal with stress, so I started putting it into action. Now everyone comments on how calm, relaxed and grounded I am - and you can be too by making some simple lifestyle changes.Keywords:
AnnA Rushton, stress, how does stress affect health, tackling stress, coping with stress, health Can You Answer These Key Stress Questions Answering just a few simple questions can tell you how stressed you are - and what causes it. Of course, everyone is subject to stress at some time or other, and there are some events that are common throughout our lives. Potential sources of stress include money worries, pressure of examinations, work, family and personal relationships, illness, moving house, death, separation and divorce.Keywords:
AnnA Rushton, ways to beat stress, stress management, causes of stress Stress and the family Everyone's response to stress is different and one of the factors that can affect how you deal with stress may well be genetic. How well in general do people in your family deal with the every stresses of life? Are you a happy go lucky crowd who deal with stresses as they arise or are they ignored and not spoken about?Keywords:
AnnA Rushton, stress and the family, stress management How Your Brain Deals With Stress If you have been suffering the effects of stress over a continuous period, then there are definite physical consequences such as damage to the gastrointestinal tract, glandular system, skin or cardiovascular system as the body tries to cope with the incessant demands made on it. But it is not just in our body that stress manifests; prolonged stress also causes physical changes in the brain and these too can have profound effects.Keywords:
AnnA Rushton, stress, how does stress affect health, stress triggers The Immediate Way to REduce Stress If we are feeling out of balance our natural instinct is to try and do something to make it better. This usually involves us trying to either stimulate or sedate our senses with things like coffee, alcohol, sugar, tobacco and drugs. Many of these solutions will work in the short-term, but if your system is overstressed they are not the answer for long-term stress-free living.Keywords:
AnnA Rushton, stress, adrenalin, managing stress What Makes Life Worth Living? What makes life worth living may seem a flip title but I mean this in all seriousness as I came across a truly startling statistic this week. According to the World Health Organisation, around 1 million people die of suicide every year, the tenth largest cause of death globally. Awful enough, but what startled me was that more die by suicide than by any other type of violence, including armed conflict.Keywords:
AnnA Rushton, suicide, life meaning
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