PeopleKeys Managing Stress Course: New Online Class Explores the Connection Between Stress and Personality Type

Boardman, Ohio (PRWEB) May 21, 2013

Recent data from the American Medical Association estimates that 43% adults have experienced negative effects on their health due to stress. The AMA similarly believe that the impact of stress is much more significant than many people realize, attributing 75% to 90% of all doctors visits to stress-related illnesses.

Stress is something that many Americans accept as a normal part of daily life. Unfortunately, left untreated stress can cause a great many ill-effects on a persons physical and emotional well-being. Serious medical conditions such as hypertension, chronic headache, depression, anxiety, asthma, diabetes, heart problems, stomach pain, and skin conditions are in many cases a direct product of excessive stress.

Currently, there are quite a few treatment options for individuals suffering from extreme chronic stress. Exercise, meditation, changes in diet, yoga, are all commonly suggested stress management techniques. Yet because individual physical and emotional responses to stress are so varied, blanket solutions like these are rarely effective for everyone. Rather than finding ways to treat the effects of stress, experts believe that it is better to focus on the root of the problem through understanding the situations that trigger stress in the first place.

Just as individual reactions to stress are so different, stress triggers also vary widely from person to person. Recent research from PeopleKeys shows that the most successful way to determine an individuals unique stress triggers is through an understanding of personality type. To that end, PeopleKeys recently announced the launch of their personality-based DISC Managing Stress Course.

The DISC Managing Stress Course can be taken online in under two hours, and provides powerful diagnostic tools for identifying a persons personality type, levels of stress, and stress triggers. The DISC Stress Management Course begins with a comprehensive personality test designed to identify the personality type of the test-taker. Once personality type has been determined, the Stress Management Couse provides insight into the ways that stress affects behavior, and provides clear and effective personality-driven strategies for preventing and managing stress. This is done with a personal stress evaluation, which allows participants to chart stress levels in ten key areas related to stress.

The course is interactive, and gages progress through short quizzes. As a preventative stress-management tool, the Managing Stress Course helps participants:

Studies Explore The Brain, Cortisol, and Their Connection To Weight Loss

Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) April 29, 2013

In a story by the US Department of Agriculture, research has taken place where scientists have been trying to determine why there are dieters who are able to lose weight easier than others, as well as keeping it off.

Nancy L. Keim, and Kevin D. Laugero, a chemist and nutrition scientist respectfully, are leading the studies revolved around the brain and the ease of weight loss. Keim and Laugero are both with the USDAs Agricultural Research Service Western Human Nutrition Research Center in California.

Since America is going through a major problem with obesity, The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have estimated that a large portion of the population are overweight or obese. In one of the investigations, 29 obese women, around the age of 20 to 45, took part in a 12 week weight loss regimen. It was found that several factors helped determine their weight management, such as the patterns of decision making, and the levels of cortisol, which is a stress related hormone.

Ultimately, the study concluded with varying results of weight loss among the participants, which ranged from 0 to 27 pounds. The results seemed to ignore the fact that each person in the study were eating the same food in the calorie controlled environment.

The findings that centered around Cortisol were based in saliva samples collected on two separate testing dates. Not really a surprise, the cortisol concentrations were exceptionally higher from the beginning to the end of the 12 week study. It seems that cortisol concentration is an indicator of psychological stress. This stress is usually a major factor to a dieters relapse back to unhealthy eating habits.

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The CNN Interview on Dr. Robert Young's Research About the Connection Between Over-Acidity and Weight Gain is Featured in Todays Bawell Publication

(PRWEB) May 24, 2013

The Bawell publication covers the CNN News reporter Carol Lin interview with Dr. Young, who is a research scientist and author of the book The pH Miracle for weight loss on the connection between peoples overweight problems and acidosis. Dr. Young explains in the news interview that obesity is actually an acid problem, There's some confusion here. It's not that we're overweight, it's that we're over acid.

"If our body doesn't eliminate acids through urination, defecation, perspiration or respiration, that acid gets stored in the fat cells on our hips, thighs, buttocks, waist line, and breasts. This is what makes us fat, so obesity or overweight is not a fat problem, it's an over acidic diet problem," Dr.Young states in the interview, the Bawell report writes.

Dr. Young goes on to explain that alkaline ionized water, and a balanced pH are essential for a healthy body, further stating that a pH of 7 or higher is alkaline and healthy. When asked how one can balance his body to lose weight, Dr. Young answers by saying, What you eat, what you drink, or even your thoughts can make you over acidic, so it is important to focus on more alkalizing foods like spinach or parsley... quotes the Dr. in the report that Bawell published today.

The scientific researcher and author further explains about the alkaline diet, and the fact that alkaline water can provide numerous health benefits, writes the Bawell representative in todays report. "We need to move more to an alkalizing diet, more green foods and drinks, and also good healthy fats. Good healthy fats from fish: sea bass, trout, salmon, even the mackerel, or tuna; as well as oils.... these fats can actually neutralize acidity and help us to become more healthy and more energetic. Plus help us to maintain an ideal healthy weight" the publication states.

The Bawell publication continues to explain how some foods are acidic, and should therefore be avoided. The list includes beef, chicken, pork, eggs, vinegar, soy sauce, mushrooms, corn, peanuts, all dairy products, tea and soda, chocolates, etc"When we're over acid, this is what makes us sick, tired and overweight; so animal proteins and dairy products, even the wrong kind of water like acidic water or carbonated water," the report says.

As a last piece of advice on diet and ionized water health benefits, the doctor and research scientist closes the interview by saying, "When you move into a more alkaline diet, you can lose up to a pound a day. It's not about calories, it's not about protein, it's not about fats, and its not about carbohydrates. It's whether or not the food is alkalizing to the fluids of the body or acidifying to the fluids of the body, because our body is only as healthy as the water its bathed in." (CNN Interview).

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