22.03.2010
Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path, Reinforcing Relationships
Just a follow-up article in connection with my most recent video pod cast on physically inactive children and adolescents (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4IE46c4ocs&feature=player_embedded). “Researchers looked at 23,000 children, ages 3 to 14. The one-sixth of the children who were obese had more leg, foot and ankle injuries than healthy weight children.” Article available at: http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=637220
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
15.03.2010
Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path, Pain Management: Controlling Your Life, Reinforcing Relationships
A recent study suggests that childhood behavioral problems may predict chronic pain issues later on in life. “The study of nearly 20,000 people born in 1958 found that those with “severe behavior disturbances” between the ages of 11 and 16 were about twice as likely to have chronic widespread pain (CWP) by the time they were 45 as those who didn’t have behavioral problems as children.” http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96346.html
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
10.03.2010
Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path
A research study explores sleep habits and sleep related issues among different American populations. Available at http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=636750
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
02.03.2010
Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path, The Wounded Heart: Heart Disease and You
A government-industry collaboration study announces that even as little as a 10% reduction of salt in the U.S. population can very significantly reduce the amount of heart attacks, strokes, etc. per year. Available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95859.html
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
01.03.2010
The Darkness of Depression, The Heaviness of Weight Management
In a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) multi-study, researchers found a significant link between obesity and depression. “We found bidirectional associations between depression and obesity: obese persons had a 55 percent increased risk of developing depression over time, whereas depressed persons had a 58 percent increased risk of becoming obese.” Available at: http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=636477
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
23.02.2010
The War with Cancer
An intriguing Saint Louis University study indicates that Bitter Melon may potentially be helpful in the fight against breast cancer. One of the researchers noted, “The bitter melon extract killed only the cancer cells, not the healthy breast cells.” Although it’s just a preliminary study and hasn’t been human tested yet, it’s good to see research like this. Available at: http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=636317
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
22.02.2010
The Darkness of Depression
A Columbia University study shows that happiness can potentially reduce the risk of heart problems. The authors found, “For every point on the happiness scale, people were 22 percent less likely to have a heart problem.” As reported by the San Diego Union Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/18/happiness-helps-when-it-comes-to-the-heart/
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
18.02.2010
Headaches: A Big Pain in the Neck
An interesting research based article discussing overall negative effects for migraine sufferers that go beyond pain. This includes factors ranging from increased depression to job disability to increased risk of diabetes. http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=636117
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
09.02.2010
Lifestyle Coaching: Changing Your Path
A Columbia University study shows that the Mediterranean Diet may help keep your brain healthy. It’s not just weight loss and reduced cholesterol anymore. In their results they showed that people who followed the diet modestly were 21 percent less likely to have brain damage than people who followed it poorly. And those who followed it most closely had a 36 percent reduced risk compared with those who followed it the least. Check it out at http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=635737. Comments are always welcome!
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
05.02.2010
The Darkness of Depression
A Columbia University shows that untreated mild depression can grow into much more. Remember, be aware of your symptoms, talk to your health care provider, and stop depression from taking over. The article is available at http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=635574 Let me know if you have any questions.
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
21.01.2010
The Darkness of Depression
Well, as it has been windy and pouring rain here in San Diego, CA I’ve been thinking about mood and weather. How does weather affect our well-being? Do you find that you’re tired during a rainy day? How is your mood during the winter vs the summer? What do you think about S.A.D [Seasonal Affective Disorder]. Now, just to get you thinking…I thought of a couple articles/abstracts for you regarding this concept:
(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16137259?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=3
(2) http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=93481
Dr. Schwartz
San Diego Psychologist
www.integrative-health.net
13.01.2010
The Darkness of Depression
Depression is a mental health condition which involves negative, lethargic, and self-loathing thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that may significantly interfere with everyday functioning. Approximately 20 million people in the U.S. have symptoms of depression.
13.01.2010
Pain Management: Controlling Your Life
Chronic pain involves continued pain symptoms typically lasting longer than 6 months in which either (1) the bodily damage appears to be completely healed, (2) the origin is unknown, or (3) the cause is not sufficient for the duration, intensity, and frequency of the pain. Acute pain involves pain symptoms that, in general, last the duration of an event and a brief time afterward.
13.01.2010
What is Biofeedback?
Biofeedback is one of many tools that Dr. Schwartz utilizes to treat health conditions and improve quality of life. It is a very basic, yet extremely effective physiological monitoring tool. It is a non-invasive “treatment” in which patients are connected to a computer via electrodes to obtain information such as temperature, sweat gland activity, muscle tension, breathing, and heart functioning [NOT for treating or diagnosing heart conditions]. These measurements represent common physiological reactions to anxiety, stress, chronic pain and discomfort; even depression and trauma. This data is then “fed back” to the individual via information displayed on a computer monitor. This information can be monitored while performing relaxation exercises, hypnotherapy sessions, during psychotherapy, etc; thus making it an outstanding learning and awareness tool.
13.01.2010
Headaches: A Big Pain in the Neck
Headaches generally include discomfort and pain around the neck, shoulder, skull, eyes, scalp, jaws, and/or forehead. Types of headaches include migraines (vascular), tension headaches (muscle contraction), cluster headaches, sinus headaches, and what we call “Atypical Migraines” or “Painless Migraines”