7 Tips for Stress Management

Stress is the way our bodies react to any change in the status quo, whether good, bad, real, or imagined. Stress creates physical symptoms, such as increased heart rate, rapid breathing, tense muscles, and increased blood pressure. Emotional reactions include irritability, anger, losing one’s temper, yelling, lack of concentration, and jumpiness. When left unchecked, stress can lead to health problems such as insomnia, ulcers, back pain, colitis, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Being able to manage stress is an important factor in living a healthy, happy, and productive life. Below are some techniques and strategies to help you deal with stress: 1. Maintain a regular program of healthy eating and adequate sleep. 2. Exercise regularly; this promotes physical fitness as well as emotional well-being 3. Have a good balance of work time, family time, and down time. 4.  Take a shower or bath with warm water. 5. Had a good cry: tears of sadness, jo, or grief can help cleanse the body of substances that accumulate under stress and also release a natural pain=relieving substance from the brain. 6. Laugh a lot; when events seem too overwhelming, be sure to still have a good sense of humor. 7. Reward yourself: starting today, reward Read More

ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF NEW JERSEY’S TOTAL HEALTHCARE RESOURCE

Montclair, NJ – August 29, 2012 – NJ Top Docs and NJ Top Dentists have announced the launch of New Jersey’s Total Healthcare Resource—a comprehensive series of medical and dental publications. As a trusted online resource for seven years, NJ Top Docs and NJ Top Dentists’ websites are comprised of more than 900 detailed profiles on the area’s most qualified doctors, dentists and hospitals. By choosing to extend the brand beyond the Web, readers will receive a guide that serves as an introduction to the professionals practicing in their area. “For the last seven years we have been featuring top healthcare providers in New Jersey online and we are ecstatic to be delivering our total healthcare resources direct to homes across the state,” says Cristina Mendez, Director of Marketing and Client Relations at NJ Top Docs and NJ Top Dentists. Published by MOD Media LLC, the four titles to be produced over the next year will be comprised of editorial content highlighting current trends and technologies as well as profiles on professionals who are experts in the field. “We’re very excited to embark on this venture,” says MOD Media’s Executive Vice President, Editorial, Richard Pérez-Feria. “I believe combining the invaluable Read More