Alameda/Rose City Health Online - A Primer for Holiday Survival (And Beyond&)
"Take turns...." We would like to wish you and yours a most enjoyable holiday season and a happy, healthy New Year! Alameda/Rose City Health Online, as a free community service, broadcasts health information to many thousands of local residents to help improve quality of life and to provide assistance when having to make important healthcare decisions. Dorian Quinn, D.C. - Editor www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org ------------------- You are receiving this because you, or someone you know, subscribed you to this free community service. To unsubscribe click http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/subscribe.shtml AOL Users: Links may not be "click-able" for you. Please copy and paste links to your browser window. ------------------- Featuring: 1. Parent Tips - Playing & Listening 2. Did you know - "Stuff" About Tea 3. Safety Tip of the Week - Frostnip (mild frostbite) 4. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town? 5. Light & Easy - Advantages of Wearing Your Baby 6. Feature Article - A Primer for Holiday Survival (And Beyond&) 7. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News 8. Health Department Updates ------------------- 1. Parent Tips: Appreciate the value of play: It is a child's work. Play is critical to all aspects of a child's development, but is often overlooked as a valuable tool. Play can prevent discipline problems, offers a natural way for children to learn, and is essential in the formation of a positive relationship between parent and child. Talk with and listen to your child. It's important to make eye contact and use gentle touch when communicating with your child. Give clear and consistent instructions-but not too many at once. Remember the importance of non-verbal communication, and be sure to hold a child for comfort or to share smiles and hugs. ARAcontent.com ------------------- 2. Did you know? After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Tea helps maintain your body's fluid balance and is virtually calorie-free. Tea drinkers have been known to have a lower risk of heart attack and stroke. Sources: American Dietary Association, UK Tea Council, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, American Heart Association ------------------- 3. Safety Tip-of-the-Week - Frostnip (mild frostbite): Parents.com Symptoms: White patches of skin on the ears, nose, cheeks, fingers, or toes; numbness. What to do: Get your child inside. Have them change clothes and soak affected areas in warm -- not hot -- water until the skin turns pink. ------------------- 4. Community Calendar: Wazzup 'round town http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/cgi-bin/calendar.pl If you have an upcoming event that others should know about, just e-mail all the particulars, and we will gladly post it. ------------------- 5. Light & Easy: The Advantages of Wearing Your Baby http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/10.20.shtml Mothering.com ------------------- The Doctor's Office - Dorian Quinn, D.C. - Editor http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/doctorsoffice.shtml (Editor's Note: Although some of you might receive this article soon after the holiday season, the points being made, if applied year-round, would likely serve us well. I hope you enjoy.) A Primer for Holiday Survival (And Beyond) Robert A. Kutner, Psy.D. We all look forward to the holidays and hope that they will be a time of happiness, friendliness, fellowship, and harmony. Yet often our anticipation and excitement turns into feelings of depression and/or family disharmony. Part of what happens in the holiday season, in terms of mood changes and anxiety, may occur because of the stressfulness of holiday events. Overdrinking, overeating, and fatigue may also cause it. The demands of the season are many: shopping, cooking, and travel house guests, family reunions, parties, office parties, and extra financial burden. Sometimes people who are not generally depressed actually struggle with holiday depression. Symptoms can include headaches, insomnia, uneasiness, anxiety, sadness, intestinal problems, and unnecessary conflict with family and friends. Here are some tools to get through the holiday season happily-as well as ways to prevent problems and misery for yourself and your loved ones: - Keep your expectations reasonable, particularly remembering that this year, despite being a nation facing new uncertainties, we all have much for which to be thankful. - Be reasonable with your schedule. Do not overbook yourself into a state of exhaustion--this makes people cranky, irritable, and depressed. - Decide upon your priorities and stick to them. Organize your time. - Remember, as we approach Thanksgiving, no matter what our plans, the Holiday does not automatically take away feelings of aloneness, sadness, frustration, anger, and fear. - Be careful about resentments related to holidays past. Declare an amnesty with whichever family member or friend you are feeling past resentments. Do not feel it is helpful or intimate to tell your relative every resentment on your long laundry list of grievances. Don't let your relative do that to you, either. - Don't expect the holidays to be just as they were when you were a child. They NEVER are. YOU are not the same as when you were a child, and no one else in the family is either. - Feeling like you are under scheduled or under planned for the holidays? Volunteer to serve Thanksgiving Dinner at a homeless shelter. Work with any number of groups that help poor children at the holidays. There are many, many opportunities for doing community service. No one can be depressed when they are doing community service. - Plan unstructured, low-cost fun holiday activities: window-shop and look at the Holiday decorations. Look at people's Christmas lighting on their homes, take a trip to the countryside, etc.--the opportunities are endless. - If you can drink, do not let the holidays become a reason for over-indulging and hangovers. This will exacerbate your depression and anxiety. Contrary to popular opinion, alcohol is a depressant. - Give yourself a break; create time for yourself to do the things YOU love to do. Most of all, if you find yourself feeling blue, remember: The Choice is Always Yours: The sky is partly sunny, and the glass is half full, if you want it to be that way. Depression is usually a clinical disorder, but sometimes "the blues" confront all of us, particularly at holiday time. It may be caused by the memory of loss, feelings of disappointment, or just being run down from parties, overeating, and drinking. But for many of us, holiday depression can be a choice we, in effect, choose to make. If we choose not to make this choice, we can choose instead to focus on the partly sunny skies and revel in our gratitude for our bounty, health, hope, and our courage to face each day with hope and determination. Robert A. Kutner, Psy.D. www.nebsnow.com/psychdoc ------------------- 6. Healthy Scoop: Check out the latest in Natural & Consumer Health News http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/healthy_scoop.shtml ------------------- 7. Health Departments Updates 1. Healthy Alternatives: Spontaneous healing http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/healthy_alt/3.2.shtml Deepak Chopra - Alternative Medicine.com 2. Chiropractic Pediatrics: Choosing safe toys http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/10.2.shtml KidsHealth.org 3. Dentistry & Orthodontics: Myths and facts about cavities http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/8.15.shtml Mothering.com 4. Exercise & Fitness: Office aerobics http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/3.16.shtml HealthScout.com 5. Chiropractic: Healthy computing: Breathe in, breathe out... http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/6.49.shtml Healthy.net 6. Family Medicine: For the diabetic, life without injections http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/15.35.shtml MSNHealth.com 7. Mental Health & Personal Growth: Can laughter help us heal? http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/35.46.shtml HealthCentral.com 8. Women's Health: Mammogram or not? http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/41.46.shtml WellnessJournal.com 9. Heart & Circulation: Aneurysm screening saves lives http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/5.24.shtml HealthScout.com 10. Podiatry: Treat your tootsies to strawberries http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/33.17.shtml WellnessJournal.com 11. Physical & Occupational Therapy: Exercise keeps disability on the run http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/32.4.shtml HealthScout.com 12. Seniors, Only: Boosting that memory http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/med_depts/1.25.shtml WellJournal.com ------------------- Tell-A-Friend If you like this "stuff" please forward to others so they can also subscribe FREE. http://www.Alameda-RoseCityHealth.org/subscribe.shtml. ------------------- Please rate this broadcast 1-5. 1= You're putting me to sleep 5= Excellent Got any comments or suggestions? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------- Note: This online health and news magazine developed by Healthy Practices, Inc. is intended to provide health information to improve quality of life and assist users to better understand their health and arrange more easily for healthcare services. Information provided is authored by local and national healthcare professionals, some affiliated with this e-magazine. 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