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8 Celebrities Explain Why They Use Exercise To Cope With Anxiety
By Kristin Canning Approximately 40 million adults currently live with an anxiety disorder and that includes lots of celebrities, many of whom are pretty candid about how hitting the gym has eased their mental health issues. Exercise as an anxiety buster is something experts back up as well. And judging by the mega career success these stars have had, it seems like they re really onto something wh ...
Huffington Post - Sat. Nov 11
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For Addicted Doctors, Confidential Treatment That Works
In a high-stress profession, doctors succumb to drug addiction at a higher rate than the general population. A state-sponsored confidential treatment program helps them get back to work. The Pew Charitable Trusts Dr. Michael Wilkerson discusses a patient s case with a nurse at a Bradford Health Services addiction treatment facility in Warrior, Alabama. When doctors become addicted to drugs or alco ...
Huffington Post - Sat. Nov 11
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Americans Feel Less Sad And Anxious Than When Trump Was Sworn In
NEW YORK The night Donald Trump was elected, Sofia, a 33-year-old woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, started having trouble breathing. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Sofia is one of very few brown women in a sea of white people. And two-thirds of Oklahoma had voted for Trump, despite some of his xenophobic and anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric. I don t have the benefit of blending in, because of the ...
Huffington Post - Sat. Nov 11
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22 Unexpected Things That Relax People Who Live With Anxiety
22 Unexpected Things That Relax People Who Live With Anxiety was published on The Mighty Written by Juliette Virzi When struggling with a mental illness like anxiety , sometimes traditional methods of relaxation simply don t work in the way we want them to. You may be familiar with the times I m talking about. You know, those times when exercise and mindfulness apps just don t seem to cut it We kn ...
Huffington Post - Sat. Nov 11
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Transgender women take triple the number of HIV tests as trans men
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A new University at Buffalo study has shown that HIV testing among transgender adults was higher in those who identified as female, were African-American or Hispanic, or had a history of incarceration. The preliminary research, which sought to identify HIV testing patterns in urban, transgender individuals in Western New York, also found that among participants, those with history ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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Is he really that into you?
Women who grow up without a caring father, or who even are reminded of painful and disappointing experiences with their father, see more sexual intent in men. New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology finds that women who were reminded of a time that their dad was absent from their lives -- or who actually experienced poor quality fathering while growing up -- perc ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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Position statement opposing sex/porn addiction model
Approximately a year after the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists AASECT position statement on sex addiction was published, three more professional organizations have joined the discussion regarding this topic. This is interesting timing, given the recent high-profile cases in the media. Center for Positive Sexuality CPS , National Coalition for Sexual Freedom ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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US-born workers receive disability benefits more often than workers from abroad
No matter where they came from, people born outside the United States but working here are much less likely to receive Social Security Disability Insurance benefits than those born in the U.S. or its territories. Foreign-born adults, according to a study published in the December issue of the journal Demography , are less likely to report health-related impediments to working, to be covered by wor ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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Eating at night could increase risk of heart disease and diabetes
Eating during the night is associated with higher risk of heart disease and diabetes, and the body s 24-hour cycle is to blame, according to research published today in Experimental Physiology . The researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico looked at levels of fat, called triglycerides, in the rats blood. They found that after feeding the rats fat at the beginning of their rest p ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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UNSW research on reversing negative effects of maternal obesity
A drug that increases energy metabolism may lead to a new approach to prevent obesity in children born to overweight mothers, UNSW Sydney researchers have found. There is much excitement about improving metabolism pharmacologically in ways that might be helpful for people with obesity, said Head of Pharmacology in the School of Medical Sciences at UNSW, Professor Margaret Morris. Our previous rese ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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Study reveals how a very low calorie diet can reverse type 2 diabetes
New Haven, Conn. -- In a new study, a Yale-led research team uncovers how a very low calorie diet can rapidly reverse type 2 diabetes in animal models. If confirmed in people, the insight provides potential new drug targets for treating this common chronic disease, said the researchers. The study is published in Cell Metabolism . One in three Americans will develop type 2 diabetes by 2050, accordi ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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Both obese and anorexic women have low levels of 'feel good' neurosteroid
Women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone, according to new research published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology . Previous research has linked low levels of allopregnanolone -- known to scientists as allo -- to depression and anxiety, which are common mood disorders associated with anorexia nervosa and obesity. Allo is a met ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Nov 11
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