Posts Tagged ‘Stress’

CFS – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Friday, February 18, 2011 a research was conducted that suggests that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can be best treated with exercise and cognitive exercises. These two therapies will have a positive effect on this disease. The research professor DR. PETER D. WHITE said that patients who received these two therapies report less fatigue and performs better than the other patients.

Thursday, February 24, 2011a study revealed that abnormalities in the central nervous system cause of CFS and Lyme disease. The study analyzed 43 patients of CFS also had Lyme disease and were caused due to abnormalities of proteins in the central nervous system.

Chronic fatigue syndrome or CFS is a disorder that is caused excess of fatigue which is not even improved by bed rest and it gets worse with the passage of time. People with CFS often can’t function much as they use to do before this illness.People also complain about the symptoms of this disease including weakness, muscle pain, insomnia etc.

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The cellular aging is a very wide spread problem that is caused by stress and anxiety but now the US researchers have found vigorous exercises that can reduce cellular aging with the prevention of shortening of telomeres due to stress.

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This study was taken in University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the publication has been made in open access journal PLoS ONE on 26 May.

The exercise has always being a very affective thing for the health but now this new goodness of it seems really exciting.

Co-lead investigator, Dr Elissa Epel, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry while discussing about this study said that “Telomere length is increasingly considered a biological marker of the accumulated wear and tear of living, integrating genetic influences, lifestyle behaviors, and stress.”

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Stress is something or a kind of effect on our body which can bring long term impacts for the physical as well as mental health so handling stress at its early stages is very important.

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The effective stress management is a vital part of healthy living and it can also keep your heart in the top health.

The stress management is not a big issue but a little consistency and determination is required otherwise you can’t be able to get rid of the stress.

In this article some suggestions have been provided which can really prove to very effective for the people who are facing stress in their daily routine.

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A new survey has been designed around studying how moms feel about including fruits and vegetables in their daily diet. This survey conducted between January 18 and January 22, 2008 in collaboration between ‘Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH)’ and the ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ in cooperation with other partners. They choose a sample of women between the ages of 24 and 41, all of whom had at least 1 child under18 living in their household out of which 1,000 women responded to this online survey.

Around 70% of the women expressed happiness and satisfaction after eating healthy foods like fruits or vegetables. Extra sweetened foods or food laced with extra saltiness and spices are likely to trigger negative emotions like sadness or stress. They felt the same after consuming salty snack foods and heavy foods like cheeseburgers and also found themselves ridden with a feeling of guilt after eating sweets.

The researchers when compared the results of the different responses of moms, found that majority of the proportion of the women were happier and felt good about their own selves after consuming generous portion of vegetables and fruits.

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The size of a social network and family support not only promotes the general health and the wellbeing of a person but also helps in early recovery of a patient from an operation.A recent study supported the need of social support for patients recovering from serious surgical treatments. The research clearly indicated that the patients who have larger social networks and better support of family members and relatives not only depict lesser intense symptoms of post operative anxiety and pain as compared to those with limited networks and lesser family support but also recover soon after the major operations.

Allison R. Mitchinson, a health researcher in the ‘Department of Veterans Affairs’, at the ‘ Ann Arbor (MI) Healthcare System’ says that the strong social links can fasten the process of recovery among the patients who are suffering of the stress caused by postoperative pain. It also helps the patient to get rid of anxiety caused by separation from the family and concerns about health and finances involved in the operation.

Daniel B. Hinshaw who is a co researcher says that the link between limited social connections and larger intake of pain medications, longer hospital stays and need of an additional caretaker after an operation causing pain and anxiety among the patients should not be overlooked. So prior to the operation, the level of pain and anxiety among such patients should be taken into serious consideration as they largely determine the speed of the postoperative recovery.

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