Cold season in the northern hemisphere, while Australians, New Zealanders and others south of the equator get a hot Christmas.
It amazes me how often people run to the doctor when they get a cold bug of some kind. It amazes me because there is an alternative that works wonders. But there’s a “secret” to its success.
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. . . or others who were surrounding you when you were young. Even from birth, those around you set the framework for your responses and your attitudes.
Just recently on TV there was a program called “Sex Rehab” dealing with addictions. Everyone who had come in for treatment had issues at a young age, separating parents, or something else that drove their addictions.
Perhaps it was something like this:
” You should have cleaned your room better than that.”
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Not All Stress Is Good for You
An Austro-Hungarian medical practitioner by the name of Hans Selye uncovered a pattern of stress in the human body. He was not the first to discover stress. That privilege belongs to Walter Cannon. But Selye worked out that stress has three stages: alarm, resistance, then exhaustion. He gave these stages a descriptive name: general adaption syndrome (G.A.S.). But the problem did not end there. Read the rest of this entry »
Your body is a highly regulated “machine.” It is balanced like a well-tuned engine so that all the components work together in a remarkable system of operation. But if any one of those functions gets out of alignment, it can cause problems somewhere.
When the body is functioning as it should, this state is called homeostasis. This is the well-balanced machine. Enter stress. Read the rest of this entry »
I apologize for the reference to kangaroos. I’m an Australian, so I could not ignore the idea. But I did want to give you a little more information on diabetes, so I hope the headline got your attention.
Now I use that heading for a very good reason. Domestic pets such as dogs and cats are now getting diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »