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• The 5 Main Risks For Women Of Premature Ovarian Failure (POF)
  If you are one of those unfortunate women who suffer from premature ovarian failure, then there may be hope of better treatment by using natural hormones rather than the synthetic/chemical derivatives that are currently the treatment given.
  Published 29Nov2011, viewed 161 times

• Why Women Must Not Ignore The 4 Main Myths About Osteoporosis
  Osteoporosis is a serious condition, which can even lead to death, so knowing how to prevent it is high on most women's agenda. But are you misinformed about the real dangers? Knowing the facts is key to preventing, and treating, this condition that can seriously impact your health and quality of life.
  Published 14Nov2011, viewed 64 times

• Healthy Hormones - Have You Got The Balance Right?
  It is over a hundred years since the word hormone was first used and it can seem as if they are to blame for everything from bad temper and spots to mood swings that make the big dipper look tame. You may not see them, but hormones rule many of the functions in your body, and although they may be natural they are also very powerful substances that need treating with respect.
  Published 09Nov2011, viewed 106 times

• 7 Natural Ways of Coping With Anxiety At Menopause
  Menopause is a natural stage of life but can often bring on feelings of anxiety and stress. Natural help is available and by creating your own custom mix of the remedies and therapies that other women have found helpful you too can sail through.
  Published 26Oct2011, viewed 122 times

• The 4 Key Differences Between Progesterone and Progestins/Progestogens Women Need To Know
  Menopause throws up many health choices, and whether to take HRT or not is certainly one of them. What many women don't know is that there is another choice through using bio-identical natural hormones. Key information is to know what is natural, and what isn't and there is a common misunderstanding about the difference between the natural hormone progesterone and the synthetic and chemical derivatives found in HRT and the Pill.
  Published 04Oct2011, viewed 264 times

• What Makes Life Worth Living?
  What makes life worth living may seem a flip title but I mean this in all seriousness as I came across a truly startling statistic this week. According to the World Health Organisation, around 1 million people die of suicide every year, the tenth largest cause of death globally. Awful enough, but what startled me was that more die by suicide than by any other type of violence, including armed conflict.
  Published 24Oct2009, viewed 502 times

• Kiss Procrastination Goodbye!
  Have you heard of K.I.S.S? It is much used in business and particularly in training, and it stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. Now I agree with keeping it simple in principle, but calling me stupid is not going to help tackle procrastination.
  Published 17Oct2009, viewed 281 times

• Stress and the family connection
  Everyone's response to stress is different and one of the factors that can affect how you deal with stress may well be genetic. How well in general do people in your family deal with the every stresses of life? Are you a happy go lucky crowd who deal with stresses as they arise or are they ignored and not spoken about?
  Published 18Sep2009, viewed 296 times

• Stress and the Brain's Response to it
  If you have been suffering the effects of stress over a continuous period, then there are definite physical consequences such as damage to the gastrointestinal tract, glandular system, skin or cardiovascular system as the body tries to cope with the incessant demands made on it. But it is not just in our body that stress manifests; prolonged stress also causes physical changes in the brain and these too can have profound effects.
  Published 18Sep2009, viewed 789 times

• How to reduce stress by altering your brain chemistry
  If we are feeling out of balance our natural instinct is to try and do something to make it better. This usually involves us trying to either stimulate or sedate our senses with things like coffee, alcohol, sugar, tobacco and drugs. Many of these solutions will work in the short-term, but if your system is overstressed they are not the answer for long-term stress-free living.
  Published 18Sep2009, viewed 306 times

• Stress and its chemical connectors
  When you are stressed, the well known 'fight or flight' mechanism automatically comes into play. It doesn't matter if the stress is real - a potential mugging - or just perceived - such as the fear of losing your job or your relationship. The response is exactly the same and it triggers a whole range of bodily changes to help you deal with it. What can help is to understand exactly what is going on.
  Published 16Sep2009, viewed 477 times

• 40+ Questions to Assess Your Stress Levels
  I have written previous articles on how to identify your stress triggers, and I thought it would be useful to also look a bit deeper. Sometimes we have other causes for our stress that we don't really consider because perhaps it happened a while ago, or has been going on for so long that we have almost accepted them as a regular part of life. So let's look at whether your stress is temporary or long-term.
  Published 30Aug2009, viewed 242 times

• 40 Key Questions to Identify Your Stress Levels
  Answering just a few simple questions can tell you how stressed you are - and what causes it. Of course, everyone is subject to stress at some time or other, and there are some events that are common throughout our lives. Potential sources of stress include money worries, pressure of examinations, work, family and personal relationships, illness, moving house, death, separation and divorce.
  Published 29Aug2009, viewed 381 times

• Two Key Ways to Reduce Stress
  Stress can take many forms, and I have always found it best to have a multi-disciplinary approach to it. Some things always work, some work some of the time, and then lose their effectiveness so any stress reduction programme has to offer you plenty of options.
  Published 24Aug2009, viewed 322 times

• 3 Simple Techniques to Help You Deal With Stress
  When we are stressed our bodies go on alert and hold on to tension and fatigue. When writing my stress book I researched many ways to help me to relax and de-stress and I found three simple techniques that really helped me, and I hope they help you too.
  Published 24Aug2009, viewed 305 times

• 5 Top Stress Relaxation Tips
  It is surprising how guilty we can feel about 'doing nothing' and yet it is essential for your health and well being to have a period of relaxation every day. When we are stressed and overwhelmed by life we feel even less like taking time off for relaxing because we feel can't cope with all we have to do, but it really is essential to do so.
  Published 07Aug2009, viewed 283 times

• How Triumphing Over My Own Stress Helped Me Stay Healthy and Happy
  Stress can destroy your health, happiness and relationships. I know, because it affected me so much I couldn't sleep, ate too much and snapped at everyone around me. As a health writer for 20 years I realized I knew a lot about how to deal with stress, so I started putting it into action. Now everyone comments on how calm, relaxed and grounded I am - and you can be too by making some simple lifestyle changes.
  Published 03Aug2009, viewed 201 times

• Beating Stress by Tackling Your Everyday Routines
  I learned to overcome the stress in my life by taking some simple steps that helped me to tackle it. I admit that, like everyone else, I slip into routines and habits that I don't even think about but that are actually building up stress for me. Now I have learned how to deal with that, and it has made a huge difference in reducing my stress levels. It can do the same for you.
  Published 27Jul2009, viewed 254 times

• How To Prevent Osteoporosis
  According to government figures hip fractures cause more than 1150 premature deaths each month in the UK. By the age of 75 around half the population have osteoporosis, because as we get older our bones become more fragile and likely to break or fracture. Your risk is dependent on many factors and you can't do anything about changing most of those, but you can do something to help prevent osteoporosis.
  Published 26Jun2009, viewed 279 times

• Osteoporosis - Are You At Risk?
  There is no doubt that osteoporosis is a disabling disease with one third of women and 8 per cent of men having a lifetime risk of developing it. Osteoporosis is a gradual weakening of the bones caused by a reduction in bone density. Unfortunately it has virtually no outward symptoms until it is well established.
  Published 20Jun2009, viewed 357 times

• 3 Key Rules to Help Reduce Your Stress
  Stress is a major health hazard, and something that we all can suffer from at various times in our lives. However, there is no need to despair because whatever level of stress you are experiencing, please believe me when I tell you that stress is one of the conditions that responds very positively and often very swiftly, to many simple self-help measures that you can begin today.
  Published 18Jun2009, viewed 258 times

• Improving the Creative Energy of Your Home
  You may be confident that you are a creative individual, but do you make the most of the space around you to support that?
  Published 11Jun2009, viewed 319 times

• Obstacles to Procrastination
  Procrastinators are very familiar with resistance, but surely that?s the same as obstacles? Well, no actually it is not, and here is why.
  Published 30May2009, viewed 306 times

• Swine Flu - 6 Natural Ways To Help Yourself
  Although both Obama and Gordon Brown assure us they are well prepared to deal with an outbreak of Swine Flu, I am always happier to take proactive action myself and there are some simple and natural measures we can all take.
  Published 29Apr2009, viewed 326 times

• The Procrastinator's Resistance, Reasons and Results
  Reasons, resistance and results are the three 'R''s of procrastination and although you can dress it up so it looks like deep philosophical contemplation it still comes down to you not taking action. Ever heard the say-ing 'what you resist, persists'? That is so true of procrastination, and yet there are simple, effective ways you can begin to tackle it right now.
  Published 07Apr2009, viewed 287 times

• Start Writing Your Life Story in Just One Hour
  You can begin to wrte your life story n just one hour with a very simple technique. No matter how long you have lived, or how action-packed your life, you can start to write your life story in the time it takes to watch your favourite TV drama.
  Published 21Mar2009, viewed 376 times

• You Can't control the Economy but You Can Learn How to Control Your Stress
  Stress is a natural part of life; and right now it can seem overwhelming with so many things out of your control; the economy, your savings, the job market all have been hit hard. But stress is not unbeatable, it's how you deal with it that makes the difference between health and illness, success and failure.
  Published 20Mar2009, viewed 258 times

• What's Your Excuse For Not Writing Your Life Story?
  The Top 5 REasons people put off writing their life story - which one is yours?
  Published 22Feb2009, viewed 300 times

• You don't have to be a writer to write your life story
  One of the greatest gifts we can give to others is to tell them our life story and let them hear about all the things we have experienced and learned from. You don't have to be a writer, people just like you ar writing their story for their family and for the future.
  Published 22Feb2009, viewed 282 times

• Your 3 Point Plan To Tackle Stress
  Too stressed to cope? An instant 3 point action plan will help you start to tackle your stress so you are controlling it - it's not controlling you.
  Published 28Feb2009, viewed 276 times

• The Lifebelt Tip for Procrastinators
  The simple tip that can save procrastinators from hours of agony and indecision. It's a lifebelt thatcan keep you afloat and help you tackle the procrastination that can damage your health, happiness and relationships.
  Published 21Feb2009, viewed 290 times

• The 6 key stress triggers
  We all can suffer from stress, but knowing what your personal triggers are can go a long way to helping you deal with it.
  Published 04Jan2009, viewed 308 times

• 9 Healthy Ways Keep Warm and Keep Costs Down This Winter
  Staying warm and keeping costs down don't have to be mutuallye exclusive. AnnA offers 7 healthy ways to get through the winter without freezing or breaking the bank.
  Published 03Jan2009, viewed 320 times

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