Debbie Mandel's
Turn On Your Inner Light
Wellness Newsletter
November 13,2018
www.TurnOnYourInnerLight.com

Affirmation of the Week
Don’t limit yourself
based on others’
limited imaginations.


Health Tips of the Week

  • Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent according to a new Iowa State University study. Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional benefit, the researchers found.
  • A Rutgers-led experimental study found that women prefer and invest more in their daughters while men favor and invest more in their sons. The study of gender biases appears in the journal Scientific Reports.
  • A recent study finds that young people with good family relationships are more likely to intervene when they witness bullying or other aggressive behavior at school and to step in if they see victims planning to retaliate according to North Carolina State University.
  • Heart complications in patients diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia are more serious than in patients diagnosed with viral pneumonia according to new research from the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Get your pneumonia shot if you are 60 and older.
  • Singing may provide benefits beyond improving respiratory and swallow control in people with Parkinson’s disease. New data revealed improvements in mood and motor symptoms, as well as reduced physiological indicators of stress.
  • It may be tempting for parents or coaches to urge young children to specialize in one sport early on to help maximize their chance at making it to the big leagues, but that might not be the best path to success. In a study that looked at the sports histories of professional and collegiate ice hockey players Penn State College of Medicine researchers found that on average the athletes played multiple sports as kids and waited until around age 14 to focus solely on ice hockey. Dr. Matthew Silvis said the results help dispel a belief that kids have to specialize in a sport at an early age in order to succeed. In fact specializing in one sport early on might be damaging to certain muscles and joints through overuse.
  • People younger than age 40 who have high blood pressure are at increased risk of heart failure, strokes and blood vessel blockages as they age according to a study in JAMA led by Duke Health.
  • A new study out of the Krembil Brain Institute suggests drinking coffee may protect you against developing both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
  • A widely held and controversial myth that high-protein diets may cause kidney damage in healthy adults has been debunked by scientists at McMaster University who examined more than two dozen studies involving hundreds of participants.
  • People who have fond memories of childhood specifically their relationships with their parents tend to have better health, less depression and fewer chronic illnesses as older adults according to research published by the American Psychological Association.


Article of the Week

Stressed? Unhappy? Time To Redecorate

Do you want to feel joy once again as you fortify your identity? Reach a more heightened state of self-awareness? Moreover, do you want to experience a fresh new beginning as you renew your sense of purpose? The good news is that you don’t need to find a guru to lead you in meditation and ancient practices, or perform a fire walk on hot coals to turn fear into power to learn self-actualization the Tony Robbins way. I have a much simpler and more mundane method, one in stark contrast to the previous two, unabashedly rooted in materialism. REDECORATE your living space. No need to invest lots of cash. 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, and mind/body lecturer. She has been featured on radio/ TV and print media.

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