Archive for the ‘Stress’ Category
Stress Early in Pregnancy Linked to Fewer Baby Boys
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
A stressful early pregnancy could lower a woman’s odds for delivering a boy and raise her risk for premature delivery, a new study suggests.
The findings from an investigation of how the stress of a major 2005 earthquake affected pregnant women in Chile suggest that pregnancy can be impacted by exposure to stress itself rather than the factors that often accompany or cause stress, such as poverty, the researchers said.
The investigators analyzed the birth certificates of all the babies born in Chile between 2004 and 2006, which was more than 200,000 per year. The birth records provided information about the babies and their mothers, including how close the mothers lived to the epicenter of the magnitude 7.9 earthquake. (more…)
Multitasking Stresses Out Working Mothers More Than Dads
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Ever unload the dishwasher while helping with a child’s homework? Ever keep one eye on soccer practice while checking your voice mail and trying to figure out what to make for dinner?
That’s called multitasking, and in a fast-paced world, American working moms do a whole lot of it — and seem more stressed by it than working dads, a new study shows. (more…)
Poem for your health
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Life is getting harder and harder this days. Especially when you work in big city, big pressure, unfamiliar environment or even worse when your superior keep blaming you for any problem in work place. Nobody understands you. You feel that everything presses you heavily, no space to move.
Soon, you will have stress and depression. Scientific study on health shows that stress can impact to your health. 80% of illness is caused by stress, especially hearth disease. Scientific research in America found that stress contributes 70-90% of visits to physicians.
How to deal with stress ? Surprisingly, it is easy and free of charge, anybody can do it anytime, anywhere. Relax. That’s it. You just do anything to make you relax. It can be singing, dancing, watching movies, window shopping, sleeping, or may be writing essay or poems. Do you remember the most romantic moments with your beloved one ? if you do, you can describe it into love story or a “frases de amor“. Using foreign language can increase romantic level of your love poems, and will significantly make you relax.
Physical Impacts of Stress
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 |
Do you find you constantly have too much to accomplish and too little time to get it done? Does your daily commute make you arrive at work angry and come home worn out? Do relationship struggles take their toll on you and your physical well-being? Can you literally feel the stress in your body? Well, you’re not alone. As many as 40 percent of employees claim they’re burned out because of work-related stress. It accounts for an astonishing loss of $300 billion each year in the workplace in the United States alone
In this busy day and age, stress has a serious impact on our lives. One-third of Americans live with what they categorize as extreme stress. Half of them say that stress has a negative impact on their personal and professional lives, and 54 percent blame stress on the fights they have with loved ones. It’s not surprising that 75 percent of Americans claim that money and work are the main causes of stress [source: American Psychological Association]. But it’s not just a problem in the United States. Twenty-three percent of female and 19 percent of male executives throughout the world lay claim to feeling “super stressed”