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Runner's High Is as Addictive as Opiates
If you're a runner, you're probably familiar with runner's high. You know — that energetic, overwhelmingly awesome feeling you experience after a workout that makes you feel like the happiest person alive. The feel-good sensations come when endorphins are released from your brain, and new research shows that a runner's high mimics the same sense of euphoria as drug use.
Is There Such a Thing as a Running Addiction?
Recently in an interview with Runner's World, hip-hop artist Eminem talked about running and admitted that:
"You kind of go from one addiction to the next. And I'm an addict. It was a little too much; it was a little extreme.
Paula Abdul's Addiction to Pain Meds
Addiction is powerful, and when dealing with extreme amounts of pain, it can affect anyone. In a recent issue of Ladies' Home Journal, Paula Abdul, who's turning 47 this month, opened up about her addiction to pain meds. For the first time in 12 years she's no longer dependent on drugs.
Another Reason to Exercise: It May Ward Off Addiction
I love it when a new report comes out that pinpoints yet another reason we should all exercise. As if being mortified to put on a bikini this Summer wasn't enough, now CNN is reporting on new research that says exercise may also help prevent addiction to drugs or alcohol. Here's why:
Brown University took smokers to the gym three times a week and found adding the exercise to a smoking-cessation program doubled women's chances of successfully kicking the habit.
Curb Smoking Cravings in Just Five Minutes...
Still having problems kicking that nasty little smoking habit?
Well, recent research published in the Addiction journal has found that even just five minutes of moderate exercise, such as walking, significantly reduces the intensity of smokers' nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
While this may seem rather impractical at times, maybe you want to consider it for your smoking breaks at work.
Caffeine and Teens: A Growing Habit
When I was a little kid and reached for my mom's cup of joe, she told me that coffee would stunt my growth. That false myth no longer holds sway with the youth of today, and the coffee habit it in young teens is soaring. While coffee might not stunt growth, it is habit forming and these kids are not drinking their java straight up.
yogaHOPE
yogaHOPE, is a non-profit yoga outreach program dedicated to offering yoga instruction to women in recovery or life transition – the incarcerated, those in drug and alcohol treatment, those living on the streets, battered women, and women transitioning from hospital treatment for eating disorders.
The practice of yoga has been shown to produce positive motivational change by helping women regain their vital center of energy, satisfaction, and stability.
Yoga can help reduce low self-esteem and poor body image, and greatly improves a woman's sense of personal empowerment - yet female populations who could benefit from this practice don’t have access to it.
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Get Addicted to Exercising
Once you start loving something, it's hard to go without it. You can become addicted to almost anything, so how about getting addicted to working out? Sounds odd, I know.
DrSugar: Exercise Addiction — How Much Is Too Much?
DrSugar is in the house and he's answering your health questions.
Dear DrSguar,
I'm a big fitness fanatic and spend more time than I'd like to admit working out at the gym. I'm starting to worry that I might have an exercise addiction.
Are You Addicted to Refined Carbs?
New research out of New Zealand found that refined carbs, essentially white flour and white sugar, are as addictive as cigarettes. They found that heavily processed foods with a high amount of refined carbohydrates, like sugary cereals and sweet baked goods, quickly raise the amount of sugar in the blood, and that this "sugar rush" activates the same areas of the brain stimulated by nicotine and other addictive drugs. Like other addictions, the refined carbs loses its effectiveness in creating the desired rush forcing folks to eat more refined carbs to capture the high.
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