A New Year, A New You—Dealing With Hol...

I hate to sound like a Scrooge (because I truly love the Holiday Season), but it’s interesting to note that when New Year Day rolls around, “reduce my stress levels” is second only to “lose some weight” among the most popular New Year resolutions. This is encouraging, not only because stress is associated with a higher risk for many diseases, but also because of the many very effective, very easy-to-follow strategies that can help control stress. The link between stress and disease is partly due to the fact that stress generally encourages us to eat more and...

Holiday Stress and its Effect on Health...

With the stock market still down and consumer confidence at its lowest level in more than a decade, this Holiday Season is shaping up to be one of the most stressful in recent memory. Stress, as we all know, can come from a variety of sources – and at this time of year, turkey with the in-laws, hanging Christmas lights, and opening your post-holiday Visa bill are just some of the many sources of our escalating stress levels. Survey findings show that added holiday stress, on top of already high stress levels associated with work and the economy, makes it hard to relax....

Tips to a Stress-Free Holiday and Lifest...

Well, here we are again – Halloween is a fading memory and Thanksgiving and the rest of the Holiday season is upon us. It used to be that the so-called “holiday season” didn’t start until close to the actual holidays – but now it seems to start even before the pumpkins are off your front porch! During the holiday season, research surveys routinely show that more than HALF of us feel overwhelmed by the stress of Thanksgiving or Christmas or Hanukkah – meaning that all this holiday-cheer causes us as much stress as do dentist visits and speeding...