We live in a stressed out world that is requiring us to be busier and busier all the time. Your boss is calling, you’ve got a test to study for and your spouse is texting you asking what’s for dinner. All of these stressors add up to an overloaded mind and body.
The remedy? Yoga. Sure it’s got the reputation as a quasi-religion whose practitioners run around wearing no shoes, but there are plenty of documented studies showing it can help the mind, body and spirit.
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Generally individuals with college degrees live longer and healthier lives. That may be true over the aggregate, but young people who enter the halls of colleges and universities every day expose themselves to risks of some serious health issues.
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Did you know that you may not have felt real empathy until you graduated from high school? Or, that your brain is the consistency of tofu? The following 50 ridiculous and weird (but true) facts about the human body can prove how little you might know about yourself (even if you are a surgical technician).
full article..trying a little music therapy on yourself might be the key to acing that next exam. You might not always notice it, but music is all around—from the stereo in your car to the music piped in at department stores. And you also may not be aware that music has a wide array of impacts on your health: Studies show that music has a strong effect on your mood levels and emotions, and also on how you think and your general intelligence.
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The main effect of alcohol on your brain is the altering of its chemistry through changing neurotransmitter levels. Neurotransmitters send signals throughout the entire body to control processes, emotions and behaviors. Neurotransmitters fall into two categories; inhibitory or excitatory
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