Nutrition Helps You Cope With Stress

Nutrition Helps You Cope with Stress Did you know that there is an obvious relationship between your diet and your mental health? Have you ever wondered why eating different foods changes your mood? The evidence of the relationship between nutrition and mental health has been growing at a rapid pace. This evidence indicates that food Continue reading


The Link Between Food, Stress and Violence

written by Azedah Vafaee For most people, today’s society is a stressful environment, and often they eat as a way of dealing with this stress. The connection between nutrition and stress can be intriguing, because usually wise food choices are the last thing on our mind when we perceive stress. Nutritional deficiencies are rarely the Continue reading


The Benefits of Ballroom Dancing

The Benefits of Ballroom Dancing There’s no doubt about it, Ballroom and Latin dancing is changing the way people feel about exercise, and themselves! For those skeptics who don’t believe in the power of the mind in health and medicine, we have listed the physical proof first. Millions of people every year are enjoying the Continue reading


The Benefits of Meditation

Relax – it’s good for you Meditation has long been lauded. Now science has shown that deep relaxation changes our bodies on a genetic level – for the better. Anastasia Stephens reports. Meditate on health … deep relaxation is as good for you as it feels.


What is Stress?

written by volunteer contributor Azadeh Vafaee on 28th February, 2014 What is stress? What effects does it have? How can one control it? Stress is defined as a response by our body to a difficult situation, such as: traffic difficult job exams divorce It is not limited to any particular age, and it includes all Continue reading