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Is Your Brilliant Personality Killing Your Business?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
“Manners Maketh Man” was our school motto. I was so young I couldn’t even read when this was said during our assemblies but I came to understand what it meant early on. We could be the greatest at what we did but the way in which we interacted with one another spoke more about our greatness than our intellectual or physical ability demonstrated during debates, competitions, and daily activities.
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Go Mediterranean Diet
We have known of the health benefits the Mediterranean diet provides for some time.
In fact, I always recommend it to all my clients – and patients - unless they have healthy traditional foods and a healthy heritage.
This Spanish study suggests the Mediterranean diet may have a protective role against depression after studying a group of 10,000+ people prospectively over 4+ years. Although the underlying mechanism is unknown, the diet has already been linked to beneficial effects to the heart and immunologic system.
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Massive loss of jobs contributes to significant increase in depression
In this survey carried at Rutgers, two thirds of the respondents who lost their job expressed feelings of depression. Most surveyed were laid off with no advance notice. Living on a paycheck, most borrowed money from family and friends. Most responders experienced increased relational problems with their partners and family members, had trouble sleeping or increased their alcohol or drug consumption.
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Kids Stress
Do our kids stress more than we did when we were young?
Just as an example, if you feel swamped with the blessings and curses that instant technology brings to you, what about their situation? They have been born in the technology boom.
In addition, there are great disparities in the world of these children: those born into homes where they are well-taken care of and those who have experienced and lived atrocities that no adult or child should ever experience.
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Forever Young
Are you interested in staying young forever? I was honored to participate on a panel with other prestigious speakers at the Anti-Aging Panel at the Florida Conference for Women in Orlando Florida, last week. The panel included Dr. Saralyn Mark, Dr. Deborah Harding and our distinguished moderator was Dr. Carol Scott.
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Work Wisely: Work Less Hours, Make More Money
In an ideal world, we would dedicate eight hours of our day to work, another eight to enjoy recreational activities and the last eight hours to sleep. The true question is, how many of you live in the ideal world?
Instead, in the real world, most people work twelve to sixteen hours every day, with little recreational time and with less sleep. Forget about taking any vacation during the financial crisis. People worry about keeping their job, lay-offs, foreclosures and downsizing.
While people are doing the work of two or three employees these days, being on the go 24/7 is counterproductive to high performance and increased productivity at work. Even athletes know that their performance will start to decrease if they train too hard or for too long.
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Screen for Depression during Financial Stress and Economic Crisis
October 10th is National Depression Screening Day.
The current economic and financial crisis has created increased pressure on all of us. As many struggle with the uncertainty of whether or not they will continue to have a job, others deal with the challenges of laying people off, many of whom may have been colleagues and friends. With stress reaching epidemic numbers, many struggle with staying healthy during rough times. Stress affects the most vulnerable systems: some people will experience frequent migraine headaches, whereas others will develop gastrointestinal problems, and others will have high blood pressure. Stress may trigger panic attacks in some people and will affect others with clinical depression.
Depression is common, affecting one in ten adults each year and twice as many women as men. Depression is a serious medical illness that negatively impacts how we think, how we feel, and how we behave. When we feel down or sad, our perception of the world becomes gloomy. Many experience depression with little hope for the future and doubt that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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