Being a parent is very challenging, especially when it comes to the emotional development of the child. When they are born, most children seem happy: smiling and gurgling –proving that their basic needs are satisfied. But this is beginning to change as things become more...
Your time may be the kind of glasses that you put on to look at the world around you. These glasses have three types of lenses: past, present and future. Are you a “here-and-now” person? Do you think that you’re stuck in the past sometimes?...
Summer offers a great opportunity for you to release the tension and give you well deserved rewards. It’s time for going to a picnic, feeling sand between your toes, sailing, splashing in the pool and for many other relaxing and refreshing adventures. Therapists recommend that...
1. Start each day alert and ready for action Confident people love life so much that they do not want to waste any minute. Start your day ready and prepared to proactively engage with the day and you won’t waste the rest of it trying...
Confidence in yourself also involve staking action to achieve your dreams. The following questions are designed to motivate you to rise above the events in your life and gain more confidence in yourself. How is your inner voice speaking to you? In your mind there...
Founded by George Oshawa (October 18, 1893 – April 23, 1966), the Oshawa detox diet is a low calorie diet, mainly vegetarian diet. The diet promotes a low consumption of saturated fats so it helps reduce high levels of cholesterol and blood pressure. On the...
What is authentic happiness? Socrates, Aristotle and Plato thought that when people pursued a virtuous life, they would be authentically happy. Epicurus and utilitarian philosophers promoted the idea that happiness was an abundance of positive feelings and pleasure. Positive psychology has conceptualized authentic happiness as...
Knowing and following your strengths: encourages insight and perspective in your life makes one less sensitive to stress generates optimism and resilience provides a sense of direction helps to develop confidence and self-esteem generates a sense of vitality and energy engenders a sense of happiness...
Obesity is associated with a range of adverse health consequences. Widely recognized are the increased risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers. Obesity and low body weight can impact on reproductive function by causing hormone imbalances and ovulatory dysfunction. Abnormal weight is usually defined...
In today’s society, the first pregnancy delay phenomenon led to increased infertility rates associated with maternal age (Stephen and Chandra, 2006). Thus, a high percentage of couples depend on assisted reproductive techniques to achieve a pregnancy. Increasing infertility incidence correlated with female age is primarily...
It almost seems like a mystical correlation. Babies conceived at certain times of the year appear healthier than those conceived during other times. Now, scientists have shown that the surprising impression may actually be true — and they think they may know why it happens....
Don’t fool yourself into thinking infertility is rare. Roughly one in six couples will struggle to have a baby and both male and female factors can contribute. Some experts believe aspects of our modern lifestyles like poor diet, body habits and environmental agents are contributing...
It is natural for a woman to wish to have an idea of her potential fertility. A measurement of the anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) concentration has become the most commonly used test of “ovarian reserve” – a term that refers bothto the number of oocytes within...
Sedentary lifestyle, a modern problem People are less active today, in part because technology has made our lives easier. Few of us still perform manual tasks or have a job involve physical exertion. All our activities are now much less demanding in terms of physical...
When it comes to boosting your fertility naturally one of the most important things to do is build a healthy foundation which the rest of your program can work upon. A health foundation consists of Nutrition, Movement, and Balance. 1. NUTRITION Following a fertility diet...
A recent study from England shows that men are generally happier in life than women, especially in terms of physical appearance, physical condition and salary. Men are happier in life than women, particularly when it comes to their appearance, new research has found. A detailed...
What is stress? Stress results from the individual perception of a state of adjustment effort, due to the necessity to refocus on the new emerging demand. Thus, stress occurs as a perceived discrepancy between the demand and evaluation of our own abilities to cope with...
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” One of the most famous quotes by Winston Churchill suggests that optimists and pessimists have fundamentally different ways of interpreting the world. Each of us sometimes faces disappointments, failures...
We all heard about Angelina Jolie’s preventative double mastectomy. It seems that this shocking decision came after tests had shown that she carries the BRCA1 cancer gene, leaving her with an 87% chance of contracting breast cancer. What she has actually done was to fight...
Infertility is often described as the most stressful event in the life of most infertile couples. Psychological stress can reduce female reproductive performance in various ways, with implications related to the nervous, endocrine and immune systems. Assisted human reproduction procedures are stressful because of daily...
