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Loneliness and Being Alone

    Loneliness is an unpleasant feeling of isolation, disconnectedness or abandonment. It may sound quite scary to hear that the feelings of loneliness have been linked to depression, loss of sleep, an increased risk of stroke and high blood pressure.   It can also be said to be a feeling of disconnectedness or isolation that makes it almost difficult for one to communicate or associate with others.     It is important to note here that Solitude sometimes leads to feelings of loneliness, this is not always the case. This complex emotional response affects people in differs ways. Hence, it varies from person to person. Some individuals prefer being by themselves and do not feel lonely in any way, even after an extended period of solitude.     Loneliness is a complex emotional response which affects people in differs ways. People experience loneliness when they can’t communicate or connect with other people. This indicates that they do not necessarily ha...

Top Lifestyle Diseases

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                                        Heart Disease Heart disease is one deadly killer leading cause of death of men and women in our present day. Although some cases of heart disease have a family history behind it, there is much that we can do to prevent heart disease in the future.   A basic understanding of heart disease is a good place to start.   This occurs when the small blood vessels of the heart become clogged with bad cholesterol and toxins, thereby narrowing of these blood vessels. The clogging particles build up and cause what is known as hardening of the arteries.   Once fatty materials start to deposit into the arteries, it becomes tough for blood and oxygen to reach the heart through those pathways. Hence, the heart can no longer receive vital blood and oxygen. Heart attack occurs.   While some factors such as family history play a role in heart disease, there are also ways to prevent or eradicate the chances of this deadly illness. This can be done...

Wise Ways to a Healthier Heart

    Due to the growing number of fatalities attributed heart diseases, there is need to get you informed concerning things you can do to arrest an unhealthy state of the heart. Several changes have altered the original state of lots of hearts. Hence, it is your responsibility to identify those factors that can put the heart in good lasting, working condition.     Wellbeing Digest hereby presents vital information ranging from nutrition to good lifestyle. This will support the health of your heart. Focus on your abdomen: Research into the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has connected excess belly fat to an unhealthy blood lipid level and higher blood pressure. It is time to slim down the extra fat that you have developed around your abdomen. Exercising and eating low-calorie foods can make a great difference. Stop smoking: Smoking is one of the chief risk factors for heart disease. If you use other tobacco products or smoke, the American Heart Associati...

How Identity Theft trouble can alter your Wellbeing

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  In a simple term, Identity theft is the deliberate use of someone else’s identity such as social security number and other personal and financial data to gain a financial advantage and other benefits. These days, people are enticed by Banks to get their own credit card. The reasons for doing so are because a cashless economy is being encouraged and offer extreme shopping incentive. Hence, many people tend to be motivated to get a credit card. But do not realize that the way they use their credit cards can greatly affect their Wellbeing. Fraudulent activities by criminals are becoming popular as they target victims that carelessly use their credit cards whenever they go shopping.   People should take note that one of the most prevalent credit card rip-offs in the society today is the identity theft, as no day goes by without such report.   It is important to know how to avoid getting into trouble by;   Protect your vital personal/financial data: Never entertai...

Prevent Food Poisoning today

Food poisoning can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Hence, it should be a high priority to avoid it. Take some time to learn about how to prevent of food poisoning or lessen the chances that you or your loved ones will be included in the statistic of food poisoning. For the fact that the topic is very wide, endeavour to make the teaching simple, concentrating on the most important points such as fundamental rules guiding a healthy food and let them see reasons why food go bad and harm human life. You are what you eat, so take care and add value to whatever goes into you by observing the following points: 1. Be Vigilant about Washing Your Hands and All Surfaces Cleanliness in food preparation is an absolute must. When working with food, you should wash your hands thoroughly before and after food preparation . Wash them properly, for at least 20 seconds with very warm water and soap. Wash all surfaces thoroughly before use, to prevent contamination by anything that may have touched...

Disadvantages of engaging a Househelp

  It is no more unusual for a family in urban areas to get the services of a Househelp . The demands of office work, domestic duties such as cleaning and laundry, taking care of kids and the need to have some personal time have caused many people to employ a Househelps. Although, some parents who have good Househelp have enjoyed some privileges such as; Not getting to stay at home all long, One-on-one care of their kids, Flexibility of schedule which give them extra time. Caution must be applied where necessary, as one should be aware that keeping Househelps also have some disadvantages as given below. These disadvantages quite overweigh the advantages.   *** Absence of satisfactory parental care:  Parents who engage Househelps are usually busy with official and other personal chores. The love and compassion of a Househelps can never replace that of the kid’s parents.  The House help may not bother about the feelings, not feeding them at the right time, maltreating them or e...

Children Bedwetting, any hope?

Bedwetting occurs at night, often with children who have little or no trouble controlling their bladder during the day. The older children are less likely to wet the bed.   Bedwetting creates anxiety for the entire family.  This makes parents to be frustrated and tired by the extra laundry, drying mattresses, and time set aside in reassurances that follow each incident of bedwetting.   One may ask, what are the basic causes of bedwetting? Few causes of bedwetting include ailments such as; urinary tract infections, allergies, diabetes, cell anemia, sleep disorders Having taken excess prior to going to bed. . Although, researchers have found that psychological reasons such as stress, upset, and trauma often contribute to bedwetting.   Teenagers who wet the bed often suffer from low self-esteem, withdrawal, stress, fear, and other problems.  These children may suffer from insomnia because they fear or are ashamed of what happens while they are asleep.   Many parents won...

Your Immune System: a bio-powered Fighting Machine

    Our bodies are built with the immune system to fight off infection and disease. It is stronger than any antioxidant or antibiotic out there. Hence, we must do every to protect our immune system with good nutritional foods, clean environment, and better lifestyles. Don’t think you are safe just because you wash your hands a few times a day. Bacterial and viral agents can enter the body many different means.   Let’s have a look at some examples that illustrate steps of what happens when disease-causing bacteria enter your body.   1.     Bacteria or viral organisms enter your body through touch, sneezes, physical contact or through other mechanisms. Keep in mind if someone coughs, their phlegm may spread over 350 feet, meaning whatever illness they have will shower the people around them unless they cover their mouths. That is why it is so important to close your mouth and cover your mouth if you have to cough or sneeze.   2.    Your body’s immune system receives a...

Friendship: a key to Divorce Prevention

http://www.wellbeingdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Video_20170613143350782_by_videoshow.mp4   Lots of marriages these days are faced with the critical challenges such as spouses holding an adulterous affair, battling and quarrelling nearly every day, inability to reconcile emotional and mental differences, third party interference in the marriage, a yearn for the return of good old days relationship or even a crave to stop an impending divorce. I refer to all these as critical challenges because they are capable of jeopardizing our wellbeing if not checked. If you find yourself in the above states of affairs identified, this piece will be beneficial and valuable to you, regardless how stubborn the opposition, how far your spouse might be from you, how hopeless your state of affairs seem.   Friendship has been noticed to be a tried, true and proven technique that can positively influence your marriage, once employed. In marriage, friendship is forever. Even if we move out of...

Stress and Vital Human Organs

Life is full of struggles and questions. Just as the planets travel oscillate around the sun in obedience to nature, so man, on each, make effort to make ends meet. Human beings strive not only to make the present day comfortable but strive to correct the past and even prepare for the future. In the face of these multiple struggles, circumstances have their own rules to play. And when they do not dance to the time table of man, Stress set in, and gradually impact on our vital Organs.   If Stress becomes part of everyone’s daily lives. Should one then give in to it? Stress can affect your body in ways that can have a long-lasting impact on your precious health. Here are some ways stress can affect your health through the vital body organs:   The Effect of Stress on the Brain – Stress can cause you to lose your concentration and memory abilities. When you are under stress, the brain associated with memory, do not work well. Hence, you cannot turn short-term memory into lo...

Stop your Anger

Anger is a strong emotion that is caused by loss of self-control . Although anger is normal due to today’s fast-paced life, anger can lead to other emotions such as bitterness, vengeance or hate and might cause health problems such as high blood pressure, heart attack or depression. Some might counter anger through food or alcohol. Whenever you feel any negative feeling rising within yourself, use these simple techniques:   Take a walk and do some light exercise. -Stretch out; take a deep breath to let your brain get enough oxygen to analyze the matter. Ensure you repeat this to clear your mind before taking any action. However, it might be necessary to get away from aggravator until your anger subsides and then only you try to handle your situation. Anger can be caused by frustrations. To express your frustrations, being angry will only worsen the situations. Be calm, clear your mind and express your frustration as assertive as possible without being confrontational and controlli...

Laughter: How does it affect the Overall Health?

L aughter is a response to humor. When you hear the sound of laughter, you can’t help but smile and laugh yourself. Hence, it can be infectious. When laughter is shared among others, it causes a binding between people and increases both intimacy and happiness , making people comfortable with one another and feel open and free.   The physical process of Laughter : During laughter, the respiratory system is intermittently disturbed by the epiglottis, closing the larynx halfway so that air intake becomes irregular, making us gasp (struggle for breath). The mouth also begins opening and closing, struggling for oxygen intake in unity with the respiratory system. In a situation where the laughter intensifies, the tear ducts are activated and the eyes become moist with tears.   Biological Process of laughter: Have you heard that laughter is helpful to those coping with major illness and the stress of life’s problems? Yes, that is a fact. It can basically bring a balance to all ...

Power of choice:Key to healing yourself from within

The ability or power of choice can be used to improve the Quality Of Life and Wellness Everyone has got the ability to choose. The ability to decide what to eat each day, what clothes to wear, what restaurants to go to; we have got the ability to choose what we want and do not want in life. Obviously, there are some things we can’t choose, such as the color our skin, the size of our feet, what day of the week we were born, but we do have the ability to choose something that is really important. How We Feel The practice of developing wellness in our lives shows that we have the ability to choose how we feel. We can willfully influence our emotion. We can use mental training strategies such as meditation to promote feelings within our minds. We have the ability to choose how to react to certain circumstances or to a certain person. That ability to control our emotions so that we don’t fall into negative, degenerative, or destructive thought processes is inbuilt in us. Hence, we can even ...

Overcome that Fear & Worry

The graveyard have been said to be one place with quantum of frustrated talent. This is because a lot of people have died without fulfilling the dreams to their destinies. Apart from having the resources and time for a project, Fear and Worry is known to be one twin factors that is responsible for people’s failure to achieving their dreams. Briefly, permit WellBeing Digest to bring you a story and see if you can fetch out a lesson from it; A young man called Tony was struggling to get out of poverty in one rural community with few basic infrastructures, where he graduated from college. He read many stories about the city life, such as fraudulent people dupe innocent ones, accident rate, failed project and dreams, prostitution among others. He could not imagine himself being a victim of the mentioned social vices. Although, he read of other positive things such as good roads, electricity, success stories but his heart was clouded by the negative sides of the city. After graduati...