All too often, you worry about work, your love life, your bills, taxes -- all issues that you know aren't going to go away. So, to turn around those
irrational fears, you need to reprogram the way you react to the triggers that bring on your unwanted anxiety.
First: Make a plan. What helps me is to write down how I feel about certain triggers, why I react the way I do, and how I'd like to react instead. By breaking down my fears it helps me discover why they scared me in the first place.
The next step is to reprogram: When you're faced with a fearful situation, you freeze (like I do) because you've programmed yourself to freeze. Instead, concentrate on your breathing and try to visualize a place you associate with calm and serenity -- the beach, the mountains, or your hometown.
Lastly: Practice and improve. Once you recognize the onset of your irrational fears, you'll eventually reprogram yourself to react more pro-actively and that should reduce your stress.
You recognize your family traits -- you have your mother's nose and your brother has your father's eyes -- but what about the health problems? Did you inherit any of those? According to the U.S. Surgeon General, your family health history is a powerful screening tool and now there's a new web program to make it easy for anyone to create a sophisticated family-health portrait. Users can keep updated information to share with the family doctor and the information that you provide creates a drawing of your family tree and a chart of your family health history. Both the chart and the drawing can be printed and shared with your family members or your health-care professional. Access it at familyhistory.hhs.gov/
Last week, both my children came home from school with a flier asking them to participate in a 
Scientists in Britain think so. According to them, 
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of decades, I'm sure you're aware that pollution and global warming are ever-increasing problems in our society. And, recently, there has been a major boom in the production and purchase of "organic" products, everything from food, to fabric -- even beauty products are jumping on the bandwagon, but what do these new labels mean?
Your medical history, that is. If you (or your spouse) has a strong family history of 
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With a whole lot of help from science, humans may some day live for centuries, according to 
If you're like most men, you're sucking it up each time you're sick and not going to the doctor, reports the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This feeling of invisibility is what medical experts call the 
A Cornell University study has found that people eat more than twice as much candy when it's in a clear container compared to when it's in opaque containers, and even more when the containers are within reaching distance instead of a few steps away.
As if fast-food restaurants weren't convenient enough, RoboServer Systems Corp. has unveiled a mechanical self-serve machine called the 
The next time you sit down to eat a big juicy hamburger, instead of pouring yourself a glass of soda or a milkshake, consider reaching for a glass of apple juice. Certain substances in apple juice help reduce the level of the so-called "bad" (LDL) cholesterol and may protect against heart disease. 
Sea salt and table salt have the same basic nutritional value and chemical composition. The only difference -- taste and texture -- come from the salt's refining process. Refined salt (table salt) consists of uniform crystals and may contain added iodine and an anti-caking agent, which research suggests is harmless. Sea salt is less refined and composed of larger crystals that contain trace amounts of naturally occurring minerals, giving it a slightly different taste and coarse texture. 
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