If you’re among the millions of people who suffer from the winter blues, you don’t have to wait until spring to feel better: Wellbutrin XL, a prescription antidepressant, was recently approved by the FDA as the first drug to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). This emotional disorder occurs during the winter months and causes depressionlike symptoms such as moodiness, low energy, increased appetite, and a loss of interest in sex.
Sue Butterfield, spa director at The Sagamore in New York’s Adirondack Mountains and co-creator of the spa’s Resolution Weekend, offers these strategies for making a lasting commitment to better health.
When it comes to health, stick to your principles. Dr. Howard Murad believes water is the greatest anti-aging substance around, and his Water Principle approach to nutrition promises whole-body benefits. Whereas healthy cells retain water, aging ones weaken, and their membranes are damaged by free radicals and inflammation allowing vital water to seep out. When they deflate, the havoc is widespread — affecting blood pressure, tissue health, and your complexion. Murad offers these tips for keeping cells healthy.
From the moment babies are born, these tiny human beings start communicating with the world around them. The vital connection between you and your infants depends on this communication. Infants will use extensive body language, facial expressions, and all sorts of verbal sounds to interact with you. These movements and sounds will eventually evolve into language. But until they do, you may have an incredibly difficult time understanding your infants’ attempts to tell you things.
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Menopause is the cessation of monthly menstrual cycles. This generally occurs between the ages of 45 and 55 years. Levels of reproductive hormones decline, and egg cells in the ovaries gradually degenerate.
Some women experience unpleasant symptoms, such as hot flashes, headaches, insomnia, mood swings, and urinary problems. There is also some atrophy of the reproductive tract with vaginal dryness. Most importantly, decline in estrogen is associated with weakening of the bones (osteoporosis).
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