Exercise has an effect on your mood and your response to stress. Studies have been conducted over the years that measured physical responses to stress, emotional responses to stressful exercise and exercise induced responses to activities that can...
Gymnastics is an excellent form of cardiovascular exercise, increasing overall heart health, muscle strength and flexibility. Although gymnastics causes less cardiovascular stress overall than running at your maximum speed, it is important that...
Head blows sustained during boxing may lead to serious short-term and long-term brain damage. Symptoms of brain damage may include speech problems, reduced mental ability and difficulties with coordination. Head blows from boxing may also increase...
Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD have difficulty sitting still, maintaining attention and behaving appropriately. These problems are not due to the child's being willful, but rather are symptoms of a neurological...
Instead of reaching for a sugar and caffeine-laden soft drink for your midday boost, try eating healthy. Some foods can help boost your alertness in brain-benefiting ways. However, if a lack of alertness is causing you problems at home or at work,...
Stress is pervasive in the United States today, and most Americans say they don’t have enough time to manage stress. The American Psychological Association’s 2010 Stress in America Survey found that the majority of Americans felt...
ADD, or attention-deficit disorder, is also commonly referred to as AD/HD, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Studies have uncovered certain food additives that may worsen ADD symptoms. In an article in the journal "Applied...
Yoga doesn't burn as many calories as activities such as running or speed cycling, but it can help you shed extra pounds. Furthermore, yoga provides other weight-loss benefits besides boosting your activity level.
Take a break from practicing and try a hot yoga class. Research has shown that yoga can reduce your performance anxiety and may make performing easier by increasing your relaxation and awareness. Even if it doesn't specifically make your music...
Biofeedback is a complementary or alternative technique used to improve emotional and physical health by using thought processes to control normally involuntary bodily functions and processes such as heart rate, muscle tension and blood pressure....
Obsessive compulsive disorder affects about 1 in 100 adults in the United States. It can begin in childhood and may run in families. Communication problems within the brain may be at fault for developing this disorder. With the right therapy, the...
Everyone has occasional muscle tension caused by stress and anxiety. According to Spine-Health.com, muscle tension is usually the result of the physiological effects of stress. These effects usually manifest in your back as chronic lower or upper...
Because of a popular belief that connects sugar and hyperactivity, many parents worry that giving their children chocolate will negatively influence their behavior. In particular, parents whose children have attention deficit hyperactivity...
Biofeedback is a therapy that can be used to help you learn to control various physiological processes. These include your rate of breathing, heart beat, sweat gland activity and muscular tension. Biofeedback can be a helpful addition to standard...
Most people experience mild dehydration, or the state in which your body contains too little fluid, on occasion. Although severe dehydration is less common, it can become life threatening, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. In...
Every time you eat food, your body converts it to energy. Excess gets converted to triglycerides, which are sent throughout the body to be stored as fat. Since the body has no limit on fat storage, the fat can keep piling up. A high triglyceride...
The question of whether what you eat or drink just before going to bed influences the quality of your nocturnal escapades hasn't been well researched. Psychiatry professor Tore Nielsen, director of the University of Montreal's Dream and Nightmares...
Anxiety is defined as the apprehensive feelings that result from a non-specific threat. An article in the April 2002 edition of "Outside Magazine" titled "At Home in the Discomfort Zone" provides a detailed distinction between fear and anxiety....
Medications have always been and remain today the first line of treatment to manage the behaviors associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However studies reviewing electroencephalographic (EEG) bio feedback treatments on...
Menopause brings a number of uncomfortable symptoms. One of these is hot flushes, or more commonly called, hot flashes. No one knows why women experience these, yet 75 to 80 percent of women have hot flushes in the United States, according to the...
Maintaining a positive attitude can be difficult, especially when life gets tough. But the benefits of staying positive are well worth the effort. Barbara Fredrickson, an investigator at the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the...
If you suffer with anxiety, you are probably all too familiar with the debilitating effect it can have on your day-to-day functioning. The mental anguish, chronic worrying and physical symptoms can seriously affect your quality of life. Getting...
The cool-down after an exercise session is designed to help you drop your heart rate slowly, rather than abruptly. If you are exerting yourself vigorously and you suddenly stop, your blood pressure drops along with the blood flow to your brain....
A typical healthy adult's heart will beat an average of 70 times per minute, but this is not a constant rate. Your heart beats faster when you inhale and slower when you exhale. Understanding this cycle will help you regulate your breathing to...
Nutrition plays an important role in the overall health of children and also can be a factor in learning and behavioral problems. Skye Weintraub, naturopathic physician and author of "Natural Treatments for ADD and Hyperactivity," cites a poor...
Muscle contraction headaches are usually the result of muscle spasms at the back of the head and upper neck. Muscles from below the ear to the collar bone can also be involved. Pain typically radiates to the top of the head. Often called a tension...
Kundalini yoga was introduced to North America in the 1960s by Yogi Bhajan, who felt that kundalini yoga could heal the physical and emotional damage caused by drug use and would allow his students to experience the God within. The movements,...
Odds are you already have and will again experience anxiety. For some, it starts with a quick tightening of the gut that may progress to an increased heart rate and rapid breathing, all natural responses to the extra adrenalin your body supplies...
Hyperactivity is a condition that can cause a child to have a reduced attention span and be easily excitable, impulsive and distracted. A popular school of thought suggests that hyperactivity can be exacerbated by poor nutrition and that cutting...
