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So much has been blamed on sugar over unremitting obesity. Sugar is just a biochemical tool in the process. The cause can be much deeper. IF YOU you think sweets sabotaged your, already-heavy weight, think again. A German study found out that it is not the reason. Instead, it is stress; the more acute the stress, the faster it piles up those unwanted bulges in the last places you want them. Achim Peters, Britta Kubera, Christian Hubold, and Dirk Langeman of Medical Clinic 1 at the University of Luebeck in Luebeck, Germany reported their findings in this year’s issue of the Frontiers of Neuroscience. The team confirmed two studies made in 2009 and 2010 that... [ READ MORE ]  This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 23 January 2012.

STRESS got you when you begin to think that everything is a matter of life and death. For this, Natalie Goldberg explained in her book, Wild Mind (1990): “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.” The International Labor Office (ILO) issued on April 28—in time for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work—a report entitled, “The Emerging Risks and New Patterns of Prevention in a Changing World of Work,” that noted significant changes in the patterns of employment in the recent decades and had a hand in emerging new risks that affect the workforce. These risks include work restructuring, downsizing, subcontracting and outsourcing, all making it harder for workers to achieve balance between healthy life and productive work. In countries like the Philippines, with populations working in precarious employment status, people accept jobs with low occupational safety and health (OSH) standards, low wages, and poor working conditions. A study conducted b