Sleep or Get Fat People, Your Choice
June 10, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under A Mother's Wisdom, Easy Health Tips, Happy Living Tip, Weight Loss, Your Body, sleep
Sleeping or getting fat? Hmm, tough choice.
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Well, you don’t have to tell me twice to follow this advice:
Get more sleep!
So the deal here is that we can go about our business, scraping for anything remotely resembling rest, or we can make sleep a priority and lose weight. Boy, I’m just not sure on that one. Lemme think a sec…
Okay, yeah, I’ll play. I am officially on board with the findings that too-little sleep ends with a 40% increase in cortisol in the blood (cortisol …read more
Random Fact of the Day: Stress Does Cause Gray Hair
April 14, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Beauty, Easy Health Tips, Happy Living Tip, How To, Stress, Your Body, Your Mind
Just the news you wanted to hear to start your week, right? Sorry, but it’s true. Stress can, in fact, cause your hair to gray.
Why? Stress hormones like cortisol can mess with melanocytes (simply, hair cells). Suddenly, the cells have trouble surviving and/or producing the pigment that keeps your hair its original color. Hence, those pigments disappear and out pops a gray (or white) hair.
Naturally, controlling stress is a good defense in this type of situation, but that might not always be possible. Eating foods rich in the amino acids lysine and arginine can help provide a drop in …read more
