Public Enemy Number 1 Stress

It can slowly drain the life force from your body over time. Or kill swiftly without warning. But you will never find it on a medical chart or see it listed on a death certificate. It's called stress. It exacts a tremendous toll on our lives. It saps our strength, robs our youth and makes us old before our time. We encounter it day in and day out, yet do little, if anything about it. It's no wonder. In today's 'pressure cooker society', the average lunch hour lasts about 11 minutes. Dinner is often consumed in less than 6 minutes (usually seated in front of the television). The average workday can last 10 hours or more. We seem to be living in a society where there's virtually no time for quality time. Strictly speaking, stress itself is not among the direct causes of ageing, yet it plays an extremely important role in the ageing process. It is a powerful force that serves as a catalyst in every known mechanism that causes us to age. Readers might be surprised to find out that this book has as much to do with ageing, life extension and specific measures we can take to postpone the inevitable as it does with stress. The fact is that stress and ageing are inextricably bound together.

A concise guide to stress and nutrition and its effect on the aging process written for laymen and easy to understand. It covers a multitude of stress related subjects from anti-aging strategies to coping with stress in the post / world.

Who hasn’t heard of yoga? Nowadays, many people do yoga or want to start this ancient discipline from India, but they don’t know much about what it really is or what its general principles are. In this fun and enjoyable book, we’ll explain clearly all you need to know to start doing yoga, whether you’re a regular yogi or want to become one. This book doesn’t teach specific techniques, only knowledge to guide and encourage you. All practical aspects of yoga can be found on the blog YOGA at HOME and the author’s YouTube channel. This is an informative work about yoga, from a Western and modern point of view, keeping in mind our main concerns in life.

In Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, Chuck Widger and Dr. Daniel Crosby outline the ways in which a program of embedded behavioral finance, fueled by what matters most to you, can be your protection against irrational financial behavior. Along the way, you'll learn how to improve your investment experience, increase returns formerly sacrificed to misbehavior, and worry less about "The Economy" as you become increasingly focused on "My Economy." Welcome to a new way of investing, a new paradigm for conceptualizing wealth, and a system of turning emotion from your portfolio's worst enemy into its best friend! In this new model, risk is simply the likelihood that we will underperform our dreams. Irrationality is acting in ways that thwart our ability to reach those dreams. And the optimal portfolio is not the one that generates the highest return in abstraction, it is the one that helps us meet our goals without killing our nerves before we get there. This book gives advisors the tools needed to effectively communicate the design and execution of the Personal Benchmark solution.

A retired licensed practical nurse who has seen how deadly diabetes can beincluding in her own familyreveals the insidious nature of the disease in this crime drama. The story opens on the south side of Chicago when a raid takes place at one of the citys largest warehouse food stores: Shop and Drop. Neighborhood residents have declared Diabetes, a fictional cartoon figure, as its top enemy, and Ms. High Cholesterol, Fats, Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, and Salt are being sought as accomplices in the mass murder of millions of people. After Salt and Sugar are spotted leaving the scene of the raid, the Take Back Your Health Food Copps find themselves in hot pursuitand the action gets intense. When the accused are brought to trial, its televised from White Sox Park, with neighborhood residents serving as judge and jury. A reporter, Ms. Know It All; the chief investigator, Double (00) Truth Be Told; and Drop Dead Gorgeous Ms. High Cholesterol play major roles as the coverage unfolds. Join the residents of Chicago as they investigate how diabetes has become such a deady epidemic and decide what to do about it.

Getting lost and feeling found... 'I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.' - John Muir, John of the Mountains Walking is medicine for the mind. It helps us slow down and think things through. It also helps us perk up and generate new ideas. There are few activities as readily available and revitalizing as a brisk walk, or as soothing and stimulating as a long walk. Wonderful things can happen when we set out on two feet. Within these pages, you will find stories from artists, designers, writers, psychologists and speakers who are inspired by the effect of pacing outdoors. You will hear of walks in the city, hikes through woods at dawn and epic adventures involving long journeys on foot. No matter the scale of the tale, the writer offers lessons they learned of a simple, human nature that we can all understand. In each chapter you will discover suggestions and ideas about how to create simple daily habits from the writer's thinking. In a world where so much of the noise around us suggests we are not good enough as we are, and that we must seek to change, these accounts try to do something different. They aim instead to invite a stroll into the complex pathways of the mind to discover the beauty of our own quirky individuality.

The Athlete’s Gut is an in-depth look at a system that plagues many athletes. This guide offers a much-needed resource for troubleshooting GI problems. The majority of endurance athletes suffer from some kind of gut problem during training and competition. Symptoms like nausea, cramping, bloating, side stitches, and the need to defecate can negatively impact an athlete’s performance. Why are gut problems so common during exercise? And what can athletes do to prevent and manage gut symptoms that occur during training and competition? The Athlete’s Gut makes sense of the complicated gastrointestinal tract and offers solutions to the tummy troubles that keep athletes from enjoying and excelling in their sport. Written by Patrick Wilson, professor of exercise science and registered dietitian, this gut guide for athletes combines the latest research on exercise and the gut with humorous descriptions and relatable stories. Athletes will better understand the inner workings of their own gut and will be equipped to make the needed changes to diet and exercise to perform and feel better.