5 Ways To Be Anxiety Free | Your Health Journal

Anxiety has become a very common health problem that is often treated with various medications. Although pharmaceuticals can be effective, they are not treating the underlying cause of the problem which can be as simple as sleep deprivation.

Here are 5 simple steps that you can take to help decrease anxiety:

1) First, sleep between 8 and 9 hours in order to help balance your stress hormones.

2) Keep the bedroom completely dark to ensure a good night?s sleep which elevates feel good hormones like melatonin.

3) Eat during the day every three to four hours; a snack or meal that contains protein. This will help to maintain optimum blood sugar levels which will help to balance stress hormones.

4) It is important to avoid stimulants such as chocolate and coffee especially after 3:00 pm because it will increase stress hormones and disrupt the circadian rhythm.

5) Most importantly incorporate some kind of exercise into your daily routine. Exercise helps to normalize the stress response and can be very effective in treating anxiety. It is important to include some kind of daily moving relaxation techniques such as yoga or tai chi that also help to decrease anxiety levels.

In addition to the above techniques, the underlying causes of anxiety can be helped with nutrition, herbs, and vitamins to bring the body back into balance allowing us to relax and once again have a sense of well being. There are various blood tests and other assessment methods that can determine what deficiencies your body has. Your doctor can then prescribe supplements to help heal the underlying causes of your anxiety.

Note: Please seek the guidance from your doctor to determine which supplements would be appropriate for you.

- Dr. Jillian Finker, Naturopathic Physician has medical clinics in Connecticut and Vermont along with a private practice in Bellmore, New York. She specializes in women?s health and is an expert in natural medicine. Dr. Finker has been selected as the best Alternative Doctor on Long Island for 2011 and 2012. She has appeared on various television programs and acts as a consultant for a several international companies. Her work has been featured in various books and major magazines nationwide. It?s About Wellness Naturally, her latest publication will be available soon on Amazon.

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Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever

I should add that selection based on culture (love, pre-arranged weddings etc) rather than fitness also does not help evolution.

Your definition of "fitness" is not the Darwinian definition. It sounds, in fact, more like the pseudo-Darwinian conceit that "fitness" means the ability to kill or resist being killed. When Darwin said "survival", he didn't mean "last person on the island", he meant that the species in question had found a niche where its population would be stable.

Survivability comes in many forms. Some, like tigers are primarily solitary. Some, like herd animals, depend on the group. We have ample evidence these days that in many cases, survivability (in the Darwinian sense), can come even from relatives who never directly contribute DNA to the continuation of the species.

Love as a primarily positive evolutionary trait can be debated, although certainly being unlovable isn't going to afford many non-violent ways to swim in the gene pool. Pre-arranged weddings, on the other hand, can make the difference between a tribe being exterminated or being able to ally itself with other tribes. Systems of laws and mores can ensure that the unlovable whose sole means of propagation is rape will be taken out of circulation relatively quickly.

Social structures as evolutionary forces are not unique to the human race. But they are a powerful contributor. If we went strictly on kill or be killed based on physical fitness, we probably wouldn't have produced a Stephen Hawking.

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Small Business Marketing Digest - November 2012

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There were some great blog posts written about online marketing in November, so here?s are some that we think you should add to your stack.

Our Most Popular Blog This Month

Mobile Commerce Trends Every Business Owner Needs To Know
Mobile commerce is here to stay, and businesses that ignore mobile website design and mobile marketing are missing out on business opportunities.

From Around the Web

The Most Dangerous Threat to Your Online Marketing Efforts
Copyblogger crafts a spot-on argument for why you should always build a strong brand and a strong website?before?you branch out into other online marketing activities.

The 5 Biggest Myths About Social Media in Marketing
This blog over at the U.S. Small Business?Administration?website is a must-read for anyone managing social media or considering social media as a part of their marketing mix. This blog is right on point!

B2B Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, Trends in North America
This slide deck published by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs gives an overview (and lots of stats and graphs) of content marketing for B2B companies.

A Super Simple Explanation of Inbound Marketing
Here?s an infographic that explains the brass tacks of inbound marketing.

?8 Lessons a 6 Year Old Can Teach You About Your Landing Page
This blog post from the team at Unbounce takes us back to our childhood and shows how our inner 6 year old can make us better online marketers.

Uncle Sam Wants You (to Optimize Your Content for Mobile)
In this article for A List Apart, Karen McGrane, author of Content Strategy for Mobile, shares why the time for ?going mobile? is now and what your website needs to do to survive.

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U.S. chefs' solution for invading Frankenfish? Eat 'em

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The northern snakehead is known as "Frankenfish" and "rattlesnakes with fins," and some chefs say one way to stop the predatory, fast-spreading fish is obvious - with a fork.

With a reputation as fearsome as its name, the voracious snakehead fish has intruded throughout much of the Potomac River basin in Virginia and Maryland in the last decade, snapping up anything that gets in front of it.

Putting the torpedo-shaped snakehead on the menu is Washington-area restaurants' way of helping to control the Asian newcomer. Chefs said they have a key weapon on their side - humans' zest for eating up other species to the vanishing point.

"When man turns its attention to an animal, it's very difficult for the animal. He (the snakehead) is dangerous, but chefs are more dangerous," said David Stein, executive chef at Tony & Joe's Seafood Place in Washington.

He praised the snakehead for its dense, meaty, white flesh with a mild taste that is ideal for anything from grilling to sauteing. But given the name, snakehead ceviche might be going too far.

"The guy that orders that gets it for free," Stein said.

The northern snakehead, or Channa argus, has joined a tankful of invasive fish that U.S. authorities are urging people to control by eating them.

Lionfish in the Caribbean, Asian carp in the Mississippi River basin and blue catfish in Virginia rivers are among other newcomers that environmentalists want to see on a dinner plate.

SLAB-LIKE FLESH

But the snakehead stands out among its invasive peers because its slab-like flesh and its minimal shrinkage is seemingly ideal for white-tablecloth restaurants.

Some four restaurants in the Baltimore and Washington area serve it regularly, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

At Tony & Joe's, snakehead appetizers cost $10 to $11, and entrees about $26. Maryland is the only state with a commercial market and the limited supply is keeping prices high.

"They're really amazing. Probably if it was called any other name than snakehead, people would be more willing to give them a try," Stein said, admiring a 7-pound (3-kg) fish that had been killed by bow and arrow.

Snakeheads are hardy, fast-growing, voracious and prolific. They got their start in the Potomac through releases from aquariums and the live fish trade, and have turned up in such places as California and Florida. The name comes from its coarse scales, boa constrictor-like coloring and a reptilian snout with a mouth featuring dog-like teeth.

The fish are air breathers that can last for days out of water. Even when gutted and with their throats cut, they gape for breath, said John Rorapaugh, director of sustainability and sales at ProFish, a Washington wholesaler.

"Once they get to mature size, they are on top of the food chain and are ravenous," he said.

Mice, birds, frogs, other fish, and even AA batteries have turned up inside snakeheads, Rorapaugh said. The fish weigh from about 8 to 15 pounds when mature.

He said he pays about $5 a pound ($12.50 a kg) for snakehead, and has shipped some outside the Washington area, including to New York's upscale Gramercy Tavern.

Josh Newhard, an expert on the snakehead with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said it was too early to say what the snakehead's long-term impact would be on its invaded environment.

Native species have shown no sign of decrease despite the fish's "remarkable" spread, he said.

"The potential is really high for them to impact other fish species. The fact that people want to remove them from the system is really good," he said.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Patricia Reaney and Maureen Bavdek)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-chefs-solution-invading-frankenfish-eat-em-194215241.html

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Kill bill? US says dollar coins would save $4.4B

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Congress has gone back and forth so many times about the fate of the $1 coin, it might as well just flip one to decide.?

At a hearing of a House Financial Services subcommittee Thursday, lawmakers again pondered the question of phasing out the greenback and replacing it with a dollar coin ? even though $1.4 billion one-dollar coins are now piled up in Federal Reserve vaults because no one likes using them.

In its testimony, the Government Accountability Office estimated that the federal government would save about $4.4 billion over 30 years by switching to dollar coins. It reiterated an earlier recommendation that the United States phase out the dollar bill over a four-year transition period.

The underwater economics of minting pennies is well-known: It costs about two and a half cents to mint a cent, primarily due to the cost of the copper and zinc that go into each coin. But dollar coins don?t cost more to produce than they?re worth, and they last about 30 years, versus less than five years for a dollar bill.

In somewhat of an understatement, the GAO acknowledged that its proposal was ?controversial? and suggested the government spend nearly $8 million convincing people to embrace the change. A 2006 poll found that roughly two-thirds of Americans panned the idea of a dollar coin ? and this was after they were told coins could save the government half a billion dollars a year.

This might be why: The billions in savings are due to the fact that the U.S. Mint would have to produce more coins than we actually use. Unlike bills, coins have a habit of collecting in cupholders, hunkering down between couch cushions and otherwise slipping out of circulation. The government reaps a profit when money is issued but not used, and the GAO assumes that every two dollar bills would have to be replaced with three coins.

The fate of the greenback is far from decided; both pro-bill and pro-coin factions are arguing their positions, and the GAO points out that if we all start using our cell phones to buy things, the issue could be moot. But it?s possible that the 21st century version of ?under the mattress? will become ?the bottom of the junk drawer.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/kill-bill-us-says-dollar-coins-would-save-4-4b-1C7350149

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Search Engine Academy Blog | How To Sell Your Ebook | Search ...

Internet Marketing For Profit ? How You Can Create A Successful EBook
By John Alexander

Taking a little break from the topic of SEO Training, I was thinking back to?9 years ago when a friend of mine, Michael Campbell, encouraged me to write my first e-book. Never having written one before, I guess I thought to myself, but who would want to read my e-book?

I had just shown Michael some recent keyword research and that?s how it all got started. I took his advice and he provided me with some great insights on everything from how it needed to be written, the language and even the graphics and pricing. My first e-book was created in 2003 and I called it ?Wordtracker Magic.?

Basically, it contained my personal methodology of using the tool called Wordtracker, to research user search behavior. How to save literally hundreds of hours of time and quickly tap into pure gold. Last year, I finally took the book off the market, since Wordtracker had changed their metrics.

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Let?s talk about how you can create a successful e-book of your own.

Your e-book deserves to be seen by everyone in your niche, but unless you have an effective internet marketing strategy no one will ever know about it. The difference between your e-book being great and being successful is your ability to get it in front of the people. Once you have the e-book completed and to your high expectations the battle is only half over.

The rest of your work now is finding how to market it online.

The?most important?thing that you can do is make sure that your e-book is the best that it can be. Make sure that your ideas are crisp and clear, that it is error free grammatically and everything is spelled correctly.
Also ensure that all illustrations help emphasize the points you are making, and that it is pleasing to the eye.

It is easy for bad illustrations to become a distraction, so make sure they are done well. If you need to, get people to review and critique it for you and you take their advice seriously. The better your product is, the more
excitement will be created around it.

Between 2003 and 2005 that little e-book called ?Wordtracker Magic? had earned over $50,000.00 and it sold for just $29.95.

Around the year 2005, I decided to re-write my original book and I added more examples and more methods for instantly finding the hottest phrases in Wordtracker?s keyword tool.? I renamed it ?Keyword Forensics 2.0 for SEO? and nearly everyone that had bought the first version, came back to get the second version and it continued to make money every day, whether I was in the office or whether I was away teaching an SEO Workshop somewhere.

A couple of important points here:

1. Wordtracker, the tool had very few instructions back in 2003 and in speaking with others, I had learned that many people were spending hours just trying to find good keywords. I learned that not too many people used my methodology to quickly find search behavior.

When you write your e-book, it needs to be an eye opener. If it is instructional, then whatever strategy you are writing about must really help the reader in some useful way.

Ask yourself:

• Will your book help save people time?
• Will it help them make money?
• Will it help them improve results somehow?
• Will it help improve their performance in some way?
• Will it somehow fill in a missing gap in a product?

Give it some thought, because this is crucial to building the readers desire to read it. It must be something truly useful. Strive for excellence and people will strive to get what you offer them.

2. Make sure your sales letter is well written and that it spells out all the benefits in the book. I was fortunate to have the very skilled help of Michael Campbell to watch over my shoulder. He actually helped write the original sales letter and that?s where I learned a lot about how people think when they are reading a Web page.

Once everything is published online, you can let your subscribers know that you have a new e-book. But also use word of mouth to spread the word about your e-book. It would be best to supply your customers with a form that they can recommend it to their friends and associates.

If it becomes hot enough, remember to put a ?buy now? link right at the top of the sales letter so people can buy right away if they?re hearing good things.

Another marketing strategy that is going to be incredibly helpful is providing short articles full of good information to e-zines.

The internet is full of these type of sites and used by a wide range of people to seek out this kind of information. What this can accomplish is you make yourself known on a wider audience as an authority or expert on the subject you are dealing with. This will only help you, though, if you provide a link to your site or your e-book.

Don?t let them know everything that you know. Leave them with only part of the answers or snippets of information that you want them to know and that to get the rest of it they are going to have to pay for it. If you do this part right, they are going to buy.

A key strategy is to create a group of customers who will keep coming back and buying what you offer in the future. Offer free incentives for them to buy your e-books like an e-zine, newsletter, or even an e-book that you have written earlier or one that you have rights to.

The benefits of the e-zine or newsletter is that you are seen as a constantly good source of information and you stay on their radar. When you have your next e-book, you will have your first group of customers ready to go.

These ideas are only the tip of the iceberg but enough to get you going. If you have something excellent to offer people on the internet with your e-book, then have a marketing strategy that will bring it the attention it deserves.

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Source: http://blog.searchengineacademy.com/blog/search-engine-academy-misc/internet-marketing-for-profit-how-you-can-create-a-successful-ebook/

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The Slate Book Review Top 10 of 2012

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New Yorker?staff writer Boo ?has many ways of illuminating the people she writes about,? Elaine Blair wrote in February. ?The most important and obvious is that she listens closely and intelligently.? For this, her first book, which recently won the National Book Award, Boo spent over three years listening to the residents of a Mumbai slum.

The young men of Bravo company visit Cowboys Stadium in this funny and wrenching novel, which is seeded ?with finely honed insights that reflect the hypocrisy and jingoistic thinking that dominate discussions about the country's wars,? wrote Jacob Silverman in September. And Fountain?s writing is ?head-shakingly good.?

The sequel to Wolf Hall (both books won the Booker Prize), this story of Thomas Cromwell, according to William Georgiades? May review, chronicles ?the careful, patient rage of the consummate professional in a world of highborn twits who never see him coming.? The worst you can say about Mantel, he adds, is that the book ?makes you angry, because you want more.?

New Yorker writer Max?s sympathetic biography of David Foster Wallace is ?one of the saddest books I?ve ever read,? wrote Mark O?Connell in September. The book offers both illuminating discussions of Wallace?s editorial life and harrowing depictions of his depressive end. ?I?m having trouble remembering when I was last so consumed by any piece of writing, fiction or non.?

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

This thriller about a marriage gone toxic was the book that everyone you know took to the beach this summer?and this best-seller lives up to the hype. ?This is not the kind of book that sits on your bedside table unread,? said Emily Bazelon in the September Audio Book Club. Instead, it?s a book that readers refuse to put down?and that wraps them up in its seductively corrupt worldview.

This collection of comics journalism, which tells stories reported in Iraq, Chechnya, and other nasty places, makes a case that our best war correspondent might just be a cartoonist. ?Sacco grants dignity to his subjects?the petty tyrant and the suffering victim alike?simply through the meticulousness with which he renders them,? Campbell Robertson wrote in July.

The Lifespan of a Fact by John D?Agata and Jim Fingal

In this ?enraging, fascinating, singular book,? according to Dan Kois? February review, a journalist and a fact-checker go to war about whether the falsehoods incorporated in a magazine story matter. The result is a Talmudic debate about storytelling, truth, and lies that spills off the page.

This novel, set in and around a council estate in northwest London, is remarkably perceptive about female friendship, race, and class. But it?s also ?an argument,? Hanna Rosin noted in the December Audio Book Club, ?between two different ideas of what a novel should be??part lyrical-realistic storytelling, part modernist deconstruction of the very idea of story. As a whole, it?s a masterful, emotional portrait of a city as seen through four of its residents, striving and failing to move beyond the neighborhood where they were born.

?There is no better spirit in all of American letters than that of Ursula Le Guin,? wrote Choire Sicha in November. This two-volume collection of her masterful short stories ? one book of science fiction, the other of the mundane ? ?guns from the grim to the ecstatic, from the State to the Garden of Eden, with just one dragon between.?

Strayed?s chronicle of her 1,100-mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail is ?by turns both devastating and glorious,? wrote Melanie Rehak in March. The memoir?s value isn?t in oh-so-wisely answering questions ? it?s in asking ?many, many new questions far more valuable than any platitudes about self-discovery.?

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=0d44e1c6ef487fc69da4d2de22fb4acf

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