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The Martha Stewart program recently featured Dr. Michael C. Miller, editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. If you didn't get to see Martha's interview with Dr. Miller on reducing stress, you can still watch the clip...
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In a world bursting with situations that can cause stress -- such as traffic jams, layoffs, illness, and money woes -- it's not surprising that many people are feeling stressed out. This online resource center will help you to understand the ways in which daily stress affects your body and how you can reduce these damaging effects. You'll find links to a variety of tools and publications on this page. We hope you find them helpful!
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How stress affects your bodyAn interactive illustration that shows how stress triggers a cascade of physical changes that prepare you to fight a perceived threat—or flee. | Portable guide to stress relief [PDF 152 KB]Whether you have only one minute or half an hour, you’ll find a helpful stress-busting suggestion in this guide. | How to measure your blood pressure at home [VIDEO]Stress causes blood pressure to rise. This video shows how to monitor your blood pressure at home so that you can make sure it’s not rising too high. |
 | Q & A -- The impact of stressFive common questions about how stress affects your health. The answers help reveal why stress often feels so bad. |
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The Fertility Diet
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6 Steps to Increased Fertility: An Integrated Medical and Mind/Body Program to Promote Conception
Thinking about becoming pregnant? Learn how to enhance your fertility. Been trying to conceive for a while? Learn how to increase your chances of achieving pregnancy without medical intervention. Harvard Medical School brings you a unique program that can maximize your chances of getting pregnant — a program you can begin today, without a doctor's appointment. Learn more »
Stress Management: Approaches for preventing and reducing stress
While some stress is inevitable, when your body repeatedly encounters a set of physiological changes dubbed the stress response, trouble can brew. Stress may contribute to or exacerbate various health problems. But it’s possible to dismantle negative stress cycles. This report can help you identify your stress warning signs and learn how to better manage stressful situations. Learn more »
Coping with Anxiety and Phobias
Anxiety disorders — which include panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias — are among the most common mental illnesses, affecting more than 40 million American adults each year. Thankfully, never before have there been so many therapies to help control anxiety. This report will provide up-to-date information on these treatments, including medications, exposure therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, hypnosis, meditation, and exercise. Learn more »
Headaches: Relieving and preventing migraine and other headaches
Headaches are familiar to nearly everyone: in any given year, almost 90% of men and 95% of women have at least one. This report offers in-depth information on the most common kinds of headaches and the treatment strategies that work best for each. Learn more »
Improving Sleep: A guide to a good night's rest
If you have trouble sleeping, you’re not alone. Almost everyone occasionally suffers from short-term insomnia. According to the National Institutes of Health, about 60 million Americans a year have insomnia frequently or for extended periods of time. About half of all people over 65 have frequent sleeping problems, and an estimated 40 million Americans have a chronic sleep disorder such as sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, or narcolepsy. Sleep problems affect virtually every aspect of... Learn more »
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What can improve your mood, help relieve insomnia, and lower your risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and colon cancer? The answer is regular exercise. It may seem too good to be true, but it's not. Hundreds of studies conducted over the past 50 years demonstrate that exercise helps you feel better and live longer. This report answers many important questions about physical activity, from how your body changes through exercise to what diseases it helps prevent. Learn more »
Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition
Some foods are good for you, some are bad. But which are which? The answers, according to the latest nutritional science, are not the same as previously thought. While some age-old advice like “eat your vegetables” still holds true, many early assumptions have turned out to be wrong. This report describes the food-health connection and takes on controversial topics like food additives, cooking methods, the role of carbohydrates, and more. Learn more »
Overcoming Addiction: Paths toward recovery
For many years, experts believed that addiction stemmed only from using powerful drugs that co-opted the brain, the mind, and then the person. More recently, we’ve recognized that excessive behaviors such as gambling, shopping, and sex also can lead to addiction. The hallmarks of this common problem are the “3 C’s”: craving for the object of addiction, which can be mild to intense, loss of control over the use of object of addiction, and continued engagement with the object of addiction despite... Learn more »
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