Dehydration? You only get that when you’re crawling through the desert on your belly and think you’re seeing an oasis when there’s just a lot more sand, right? Unfortunately no, in fact it is thought that around 50% – 75% of Americans are dehydrated on a regular basis. The fact …
Read More »The Sugar and Anxiety Link
Sugar has become the target of many health crusades over the past few years with it being blamed for obesity, premature aging, and diabetes among many other things. The question here today though is can sugar trigger anxiety? Well it has certainly been shown through national studies that countries with high …
Read More »How Smoking Can Affect Anxiety
It is a common fallacy today, among smokers at least, that smoking reduces anxiety and makes you more relaxed. While It may seem to do so in the short term during the actual intake of cigarette smoke, it is actually only the cessation of withdrawal pangs that gives the impression …
Read More »Do Certain Foods Trigger Anxiety?
The idea that your gut could be causing your anxiety is a strange one, I know, and often a difficult one to stomach (excuse the pun) as it goes against the tide of current medical thinking. But if you really think about it, it shouldn’t really be all that surprising. …
Read More »Caffeine: The Morning Shot of Anxiety
Caffeine is probably the most widely used brain altering substance in the world today with about 83% of Americans drinking coffee at an average rate of about 3 cups per day. and this figure is increasing each year… This makes the US the leading coffee drinking nation in the world. Of …
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