Debbie Mandel's
Turn On Your Inner Light
Wellness Newsletter
July 13, 2016
www.TurnOnYourInnerLight.com

Affirmation of the Week
When you come home
after a day of triumph,
take out the garbage


Health Tips of the Week

  • Estrogen appears to preserve brain function and decrease the risk of Alzheimer's disease when given early in menopause. Newly postmenopausal women who received estrogen via a skin patch had reduced beta-amyloid deposits, the sticky plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, according to a July Mayo Clinic study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
  • People who are obese and have a higher body mass index (BMI) are more likely to be inadequately hydrated and vice versa.
  • New research led by the University of Adelaide has confirmed that boy babies are much more likely to experience potentially life-threatening outcomes at birth than girls.
  • An enriched hops extract activates a chemical pathway in cells that could help prevent breast cancer, according to new laboratory findings from the UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • New research from McMaster University is challenging traditional workout wisdom, suggesting that lifting lighter weights many times is as efficient as lifting heavy weights for fewer repetitions. It is the latest in a series of studies that started in 2010, contradicting the decades-old message that the best way to build muscle is to lift heavy weights.
  • Children who are thumb-suckers or nail-biters are less likely to develop allergic sensitivities. If they have both ‘bad habits’, they are even less likely to be allergic to such things as house dust mites, grass, cats, dogs, horses or airborne fungi.
  • In a study of nearly 3,000 people, Albert Einstein Medical researchers have found that those who live 95 years or more are able to stave off age-related disease, with serious sickness compressed into only a few years late in life.
  • Changing just one seated meeting per week at work into a walking meeting increased the work-related physical activity levels of white-collar workers by 10 minutes, according to a new study published by public health researchers with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
  • Driving while talking on a hands-free phone can be as distracting as talking on a hand-held mobile, psychologists at the University of Sussex say.


Article of the Week

Fruits and Veggies Make You Happier

The rainbow diet just got brighter. People who eat fruits and vegetables reap an important emotional gratification: Happiness. Since many of us are not motivated to eat healthier produce to prevent cancer, heart disease, or Alzheimer’s – too far off in the future- we might actually be persuaded if the reward happens sooner. Who knew that happiness is as easy as eating 8 daily servings of fruits and veggies like broccoli, carrots, an apple or a bowl of cherries?

A fascinating study from the University of Warwick in England, using 12,000 randomly selected people who kept food diaries and were interviewed by psychologists more


Addicted to Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life

womens fitness


Stress will always land on your doorstep, but you don’t have to constantly open the door. It’s time to build immunity to external pressures and cultivate an inner peace which does not depend on outside influences. Shed that endless to-do list. Leave the straight lines of your personality to enjoy the surprising detours life has waiting for you.


Debbie Mandel, MA is the author of Addicted To Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life , Turn On Your Inner Light: Fitness for Body, Mind and Soul, and Changing Habits: The Caregivers' Total Workout a stress-reduction specialist, motivational speaker, a personal trainer and mind/body lecturer. She is the host of the weekly Turn On Your Inner Light Show on WGBB 1240 AM in Long Island and has been featured on radio/ TV and print media.

To learn more: www.turnonyourinnerlight.com