Are energy drinks bad for your health?

New study says yes.

check out this yahoo article on yahoo.com

Korin Miller,Yahoo Lifestyle

Few people would ever claim that energy drinks are healthy, but it’s easy to assume they’re fine for your health given how popular they are. But new research suggests they’re actually pretty bad for you.

The study, published in Frontiers in Public Health, reviewed current scientific evidence on energy drinks and found that their short-term benefits (namely, they can make you feel more awake) are outweighed by scary health risks like mental health problems, risk-seeking behavior, increased blood pressure, obesity, tooth erosion, and kidney damage.

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FibroStruggles - Symptoms of Depression

It is hard to explain when you have an invisible illness. 

#fibromyalgia

#fibrostruggles

This is one of the many reasons one of the 'perks' is depression.

Symptoms of Depression

Signs and symptoms of depression include:

• Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. A bleak outlook—nothing will ever get better and there’s nothing you can do to improve your situation.
• Loss of interest in daily activities. No interest in former hobbies, pastimes, social activities, or sex. You’ve lost your ability to feel joy and pleasure.
• Appetite or weight changes. Significant weight loss or weight gain—a change of more than 5% of body weight in a month.
• Sleep changes. Either insomnia, especially waking in the early hours of the morning, or oversleeping.
• Anger or irritability. Feeling agitated, restless, or even violent. Your tolerance level is low, your temper short, and everything and everyone gets on your nerves.
• Loss of energy. Feeling fatigued, sluggish, and physically drained. Your whole body may feel heavy, and even small tasks are exhausting or take longer to complete.
• Self-loathing. Strong feelings of worthlessness or guilt. You harshly criticize yourself for perceived faults and mistakes.
• Reckless behavior. You engage in escapist behavior such as substance abuse, compulsive gambling, reckless driving, or dangerous sports.
• Concentration problems. Trouble focusing, making decisions, or remembering things.
• Unexplained aches and pains. An increase in physical complaints such as headaches, back pain, aching muscles, and stomach pain.

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9 Reasons to Use Coconut Oil Daily

The coconut is a "functional food" rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber - the essential nutritional building blocks for perfect health.

Coconut Oil

For generations, island people considered it "The Cure for All Illness" and consumed the meat, milk and coconut oil daily. Although this diet was high in saturated fat, Western conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease were virtually unheard of.

Filipinos and islanders were instead rewarded with a lovely youthful complexion, soft wrinkle-free skin, almost no skin cancer - even with excessive exposure to year round sun - and abundant good health.

Coconut oil in particular has been shown to protect you from viruses, bacteria, infection, cancer, thyroid, brain and heart problems... plus beautifies your skin - and even burns fat!

Coconut oil - a saturated fat - is chock-full of health-promoting properties - and is in no way responsible for high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and the bad effects you've been led to believe.

Coconut Oil Will Set You Free — and Improve Your Health!

Do you feel cheated?

We did when we realized everything we had been told about saturated oils was a lie... and just exactly how much better coconut oil was for all of us.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg! That's why we decided to write and publish the exclusive e-Book, The Coconut Oil Secret: Nature's #1 Best Healing Superfood - so you too could separate the truth from the lies and experience the world of health that coconut oil offers!

In The Coconut Oil Secret: Nature's #1 Best Healing Superfood, we fully expose the Saturated Fat Myth - in layman terms - so you can feel confident that choosing coconut oil is the right decision!

   

Living with Fibromyalgia

Know the facts about Living with Fibromyalgia

If we can share our experiences, good and bad, we can make a difference.

Fibromyalgia and Weight Gain, WHY does it happen?

I am trying to get more and more familiar with this fibromyalgia problem, so I have been reading more and more about it.

Here is an great article that I found that helped me understand a little bit more about it.

Fibromyalgia and Weight Gain – Are They Related?

This article lists a few of the reasons why someone with fibro might gain weight:

Medication. 
Pain.
Stress.
Lack of proper sleeping schedule. 

It also mentions things we can do to stop or at least slow down the gain.

Hope you like this article also. Stay tuned as I get more and more involved.

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