Ramsey Keaton
The top stressors for college students include greater academic demands, being on your own in a new environment, changes in family relations and one's social life, financial responsibilities, and substance abuse. A recent UCLA survey on college freshman showed that college students are feeling more stressed and overwhelmed than fifteen years ago. Also, 10% of college students have been diagnosed with depression. This shows how serious the matter is becoming and that stress isn't something college students should be shrugging off. A certain amount of stress can he helpful but too much can be unhealthy.
An article from the University of Alabama newspaper said college students cope in many different ways, some healthy and some unhealthy. One of the most common healthy tactics college students use is finding a constructive hobby. Sports and clubs are among the hobbies many college students get involved in. On the other unhealthy side, it is said that many college students deal with stress by self-medicating: using alcohol, drugs, or even 'comfort foods' to soothe emotions and get away from the problem/stressor.
Leopard, Colby. "Study Finds College-Aged People Most Stressed." The Crimson White, 21 Feb.
2013. Web. 24 Sept. 2013. <http://cw.ua.edu/2013/02/21/study-finds-college-aged-people-most
stressed/>.
"Stress and the College Student." National Health Ministries, 1 July 2004. Web. 24 Sept. 2013.
<http://www.uic.edu/depts/wellctr/docs/Stress%20and%20the%20College%20Student.pdf>.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Stress is a major thing that is associated with college. How can you manage stress when you are constantly overwhelmed and very busy?
Danielle T.
Stress is usually a prominent thing that you experience quite often when you are in college. It's hard not to feel stressed when you are forced to balance school, work and relationship with friends and family. Stress can influence you health and make you feel fatigued and cause headaches and depression. Dealing with stress can be difficult when you rarely get a break from it. Coping with stress will make you feel rejuvenated and in control of you life. To deal with stress you need to get in control of your life and change the way you think.
Some ways to manage stress would be to start managing your life by being able to tell people no when you are too busy. If you take on too many responsibilities that you can't handle it will surely lead to stress and frustration. Expressing your feelings and thinking positive can help minimize stress. When you know you have a busy schedule coming up don't dwell on how busy you are going to be. Instead, think of how you can manage everything you have going on and remind yourself that it will be over soon. One of the most important ways to manage stress would be to find time for yourself even if it might only be 10 minutes. It could be relaxing before bed, working out, or going for a walk. This time gives you a moment to breathe and relax so you are not tense all day.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_management_relief_coping.htm
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/stress/a/stressnurhealth.htm
Stress is usually a prominent thing that you experience quite often when you are in college. It's hard not to feel stressed when you are forced to balance school, work and relationship with friends and family. Stress can influence you health and make you feel fatigued and cause headaches and depression. Dealing with stress can be difficult when you rarely get a break from it. Coping with stress will make you feel rejuvenated and in control of you life. To deal with stress you need to get in control of your life and change the way you think.
Some ways to manage stress would be to start managing your life by being able to tell people no when you are too busy. If you take on too many responsibilities that you can't handle it will surely lead to stress and frustration. Expressing your feelings and thinking positive can help minimize stress. When you know you have a busy schedule coming up don't dwell on how busy you are going to be. Instead, think of how you can manage everything you have going on and remind yourself that it will be over soon. One of the most important ways to manage stress would be to find time for yourself even if it might only be 10 minutes. It could be relaxing before bed, working out, or going for a walk. This time gives you a moment to breathe and relax so you are not tense all day.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_management_relief_coping.htm
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/stress/a/stressnurhealth.htm
if you sleep 10-11 hours a night, how much of that is considered "good sleep"?
Danielle Z
The amount of sleep someone needs changes over the course of their lifetime. The article states that it can depend on age, activity level, general health, and lifestyle habits. The average amount of sleep for an adult is around 7-9 hours a night but one article suggests that someone should have about 4-5 "sleep cycles" a night and each sleep cycle is about 90 minutes. I couldn't actually find how many of good hours of sleep someone would be getting if they sleep an average of 10-11 hours a night, but oversleeping can definitely have some negative health consequences. The article says that some health problems could include diabetes, obesity, headaches, heart disease, and overall increase risk for death. The article specifically stated "people who slept for nine or 10 hours every night were 21% more likely to become obese over a six year period" and that headaches can become more likely because of "the effect oversleeping has on certain neurotransmitters in the brain". This may not be the case for everyone, but researchers have found that some cases of over sleeping have been linked to depression or low socioeconomic status.
Sources:
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/physical-side-effects-oversleeping
http://news.discovery.com/human/health/sleep-quality-insomnia-rem-michael-jackson-130701.htm
The amount of sleep someone needs changes over the course of their lifetime. The article states that it can depend on age, activity level, general health, and lifestyle habits. The average amount of sleep for an adult is around 7-9 hours a night but one article suggests that someone should have about 4-5 "sleep cycles" a night and each sleep cycle is about 90 minutes. I couldn't actually find how many of good hours of sleep someone would be getting if they sleep an average of 10-11 hours a night, but oversleeping can definitely have some negative health consequences. The article says that some health problems could include diabetes, obesity, headaches, heart disease, and overall increase risk for death. The article specifically stated "people who slept for nine or 10 hours every night were 21% more likely to become obese over a six year period" and that headaches can become more likely because of "the effect oversleeping has on certain neurotransmitters in the brain". This may not be the case for everyone, but researchers have found that some cases of over sleeping have been linked to depression or low socioeconomic status.
Sources:
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/physical-side-effects-oversleeping
http://news.discovery.com/human/health/sleep-quality-insomnia-rem-michael-jackson-130701.htm
Monday, September 23, 2013
What is the mental diet? Is it actually effective and has
this been proven?
Luke Newman
Someone did
their PGP Phase I presentation on the mental diet and it had me very
interested. Emmett Fox suggests that the
mental diet is the food with which you furnish your mind. How we think helps to choose the conditions
of our lives and how we live our lives.
This makes me think of the 90-10 Rule, that life is 10% what happens and
90% how we deal with it. The mental diet
is a process by which we train ourselves to choose the subject and frame of
reference on how we think. Fox suggests
that if I take a week of my life to develop a new habit of thought, it will be
the most significant week of my life and change it for the better. Fox especially says that it is not the bad
thoughts that are the true cause of frustration and stress, it is how much we
dwell on the negative thoughts. I was
unable to find any true scientific statistics or studies on the effects of a
mental diet. However, just by reading
the customer reviews of his book on Amazon, it is clear that a lot of people
have benefitted from doing the mental diet.
There is no risk in going on the diet, so it’s definitely worth a
shot. Maybe it could change my life for
the better.
Fox, Emmet. "The Seven Day
Mental Diet." The Seven Day Mental Diet. Alchemy Lab,
n.d.
Web. 23 Sept. 2013.
How Far Can Positive Thoughts Take You?
Shanel Perry
The power of positive thinking has become one of the hottest topics in recent years providing happiness, good health, success, wealth and more and it has been said to be one of the most powerful assets you can have in today's cut throat world. It can directly affect ones physical health and has been linked to pain reduction and life span. Your body is controlled by your brain and positive energy will stimulate through the body. In 1963, a study of 2,280 men were tested for their optimism or pessimism and their link with heart disease. In 1986, 1,306 of the men were tested again, showing that pessimistic men were 50% more likely to get heart disease than those who were optimistic. A Toronto study has also proven that thoughts affect the way visual systems can filter our perception.
"Those with positive attitudes had more information coming into their visual cortexes than those with negative attitudes. Pessimistic people literally have tunnel vision! Optimism allows the brain to take in more information and process more of your environment."
So open your eyes a little and remember that you are capable of doing anything you set your mind to.
Steps to Positive Thinking:
1. You have to expect good things to happen. This is something that you can't cheat, you have to actually believe that what you want is going to come to you. Visualize something that you want to achieve or where you see yourself in 5 or 10 years or even just next week. This is called the "law of attraction." Do not second guess a potential opportunity with negativity, believe and most importantly, don't let fear get in the way of your happiness or dreams.
2. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Even if a negative thought crosses your mind just for a second, take a minute and refocus on a positive thought.
3. One of the most important steps to positive thinking is making sure you surround yourself with positive people. Pessimists can bring you down and suck the positivity out of you, so move on and find optimistic people.
Source: http://phys.org/news163244296.html
The power of positive thinking has become one of the hottest topics in recent years providing happiness, good health, success, wealth and more and it has been said to be one of the most powerful assets you can have in today's cut throat world. It can directly affect ones physical health and has been linked to pain reduction and life span. Your body is controlled by your brain and positive energy will stimulate through the body. In 1963, a study of 2,280 men were tested for their optimism or pessimism and their link with heart disease. In 1986, 1,306 of the men were tested again, showing that pessimistic men were 50% more likely to get heart disease than those who were optimistic. A Toronto study has also proven that thoughts affect the way visual systems can filter our perception.
"Those with positive attitudes had more information coming into their visual cortexes than those with negative attitudes. Pessimistic people literally have tunnel vision! Optimism allows the brain to take in more information and process more of your environment."
So open your eyes a little and remember that you are capable of doing anything you set your mind to.
Steps to Positive Thinking:
1. You have to expect good things to happen. This is something that you can't cheat, you have to actually believe that what you want is going to come to you. Visualize something that you want to achieve or where you see yourself in 5 or 10 years or even just next week. This is called the "law of attraction." Do not second guess a potential opportunity with negativity, believe and most importantly, don't let fear get in the way of your happiness or dreams.
2. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Even if a negative thought crosses your mind just for a second, take a minute and refocus on a positive thought.
3. One of the most important steps to positive thinking is making sure you surround yourself with positive people. Pessimists can bring you down and suck the positivity out of you, so move on and find optimistic people.
Source: http://phys.org/news163244296.html
Sunday, September 22, 2013
What are the unhealthy factors of sleeping "too much"?
Ellen Rehm
Most people have the problem of getting too much sleep, which affects ones health negatively. Based off of different peoples personal growth power point slides, I learned that oversleeping can be considered unhealthy for people as well. Oversleeping can be a sign of someone having possible health problems. In order to determine if you are sleeping too much, the factors that should be considered are age, daily schedule, and how active you are. The recommended amount of sleep for adults is between seven to nine hours each day. There are a few factors that could be the reason a person is oversleeping. These factors are stress, depression, anxiety, hypersomnia, and obstructive sleep apnea. Hypersomnia is a a sleeping disorder where the person is extremely tired during the day, which causes them to sleep long hours at night. Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition where a person stops breathing while they are sleeping, causing them to wake up at all hours of the night resulting in a terrible night of sleep. Alcohol and other medications can also be unhealthy factors of sleeping too much. The possible health problems that can be a result from oversleeping are headaches, heart disease, back pain, obesity, and diabetes.
Source:
"Is it Unhealthy to Sleep Too Much?" The Joint. The Chiropractor Place. 30 June 2013. Retrieved from http://chiropractorphoenix-thejoint.com/is-it-unhealthy-to-sleep-too-much/
Most people have the problem of getting too much sleep, which affects ones health negatively. Based off of different peoples personal growth power point slides, I learned that oversleeping can be considered unhealthy for people as well. Oversleeping can be a sign of someone having possible health problems. In order to determine if you are sleeping too much, the factors that should be considered are age, daily schedule, and how active you are. The recommended amount of sleep for adults is between seven to nine hours each day. There are a few factors that could be the reason a person is oversleeping. These factors are stress, depression, anxiety, hypersomnia, and obstructive sleep apnea. Hypersomnia is a a sleeping disorder where the person is extremely tired during the day, which causes them to sleep long hours at night. Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition where a person stops breathing while they are sleeping, causing them to wake up at all hours of the night resulting in a terrible night of sleep. Alcohol and other medications can also be unhealthy factors of sleeping too much. The possible health problems that can be a result from oversleeping are headaches, heart disease, back pain, obesity, and diabetes.
Source:
"Is it Unhealthy to Sleep Too Much?" The Joint. The Chiropractor Place. 30 June 2013. Retrieved from http://chiropractorphoenix-thejoint.com/is-it-unhealthy-to-sleep-too-much/
Friday, September 20, 2013
What are good workouts to accompany running?
Molly M.
Since my journey towards my goal of being able to run a 5K in November has officially started, I wanted to find some additional workouts that I could incorporate into this 9 week process that would help me build up my strength and endurance so I am able to perform to the best of my ability. After some research I found the "12 Best Strength-Training Exercises for Runners." Road Runner Sports laid all these exercises out and gave a description of each and described how it would enhance one's running ability. Each of these workouts is fairly simple and I will definitely be trying a few out. The ones that stuck out to me most are the bed pulls, lunges, crunches, and leg pulls. The bed pulls work on shin strength and reduce shin splints. I had shin splints in high school so this workout will strengthen my shins and make running a more pleasant and enjoyable experience all together. Lunges are an awesome leg and butt exercise. When you run you are utilizing nearly every muscle in your legs to it is imperative to make sure your legs are strong enough to endure the pressures of running. Crunches can strengthen my core, which is essential in running. A weak core can lead to injury and pain, according to Road Runner Sports. Leg raises are another way to strengthen my legs, more specifically my calves, which are a major factor in running. I am excited to take on this challenge and to incorporate these different workouts to help me succeed.
Resources:
Since my journey towards my goal of being able to run a 5K in November has officially started, I wanted to find some additional workouts that I could incorporate into this 9 week process that would help me build up my strength and endurance so I am able to perform to the best of my ability. After some research I found the "12 Best Strength-Training Exercises for Runners." Road Runner Sports laid all these exercises out and gave a description of each and described how it would enhance one's running ability. Each of these workouts is fairly simple and I will definitely be trying a few out. The ones that stuck out to me most are the bed pulls, lunges, crunches, and leg pulls. The bed pulls work on shin strength and reduce shin splints. I had shin splints in high school so this workout will strengthen my shins and make running a more pleasant and enjoyable experience all together. Lunges are an awesome leg and butt exercise. When you run you are utilizing nearly every muscle in your legs to it is imperative to make sure your legs are strong enough to endure the pressures of running. Crunches can strengthen my core, which is essential in running. A weak core can lead to injury and pain, according to Road Runner Sports. Leg raises are another way to strengthen my legs, more specifically my calves, which are a major factor in running. I am excited to take on this challenge and to incorporate these different workouts to help me succeed.
Resources:
"12 Best Strength-Training Exercises for Runners." Road Runner Sports. Road Runner Sports. Web. 20 Sep 2013. <http://www.roadrunnersports.com/rrs/content/content.jsp?contentId=300140>.
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