Dear Friends,

October kicks off with the new Fall season. A time to get outdoors and enjoy the beautiful tree leaf vistas full of golden yellows, bright oranges and deep reds. What better time to think about how we deal with stress and ask ourselves, how well we deal with anger. We all know someone who gets angry for no reason, or loses their cool over simple things. Anger is a natural human emotion that everyone is bound to experience throughout the course of their life. It is important to realize that anger can cause disease.

This month, our main article titled, "Heart Disease, It's Partially In Your Head," by Harvard Health explains how for worse or for better, how you think, feel and live affects your heart. Enjoy our additional reads which feature articles titled, "A Bad Relationship May Cause a Heart Attack," explaining how stress & anxiety in hostile relationships increase heart risk. And do not miss our article from Science Daily, "Hostility, Anger Linked to Chemical That May Cause Heart Disease."

Plus,learn some helpful pointers on how to stop stressing out and how to "Manage Long Term Stress To Avoid Ill Health Effects." And, just in time for Halloween, do not miss this month's tips from our leading wellness expert Dr. Andrew Weil, discussing "How Much Sugar Is Too Much?"

We hope you continue to find inspiration from this reading.
As always, stay healthy, and keep discovering your rhythm.
-Your friends at Wild Divine

Main Story
Heart Disease: It's partially in your head." - Harvard Health

"For worse or for better, how you think, feel and live your life affects your heart."

Intimate connections between the heart and mind were once taken for granted. In some cultures, the heart was believed to be the seat and source of emotions. As Western medicine gradually unraveled these connections, heart and mind drifted apart.

A new field, behavioral cardiology, is trying to stitch them together again, this time with strong scientific threads. This work is opening up new ways to prevent and treat heart disease that will be good for the mind and the rest of the body.

Read more...

Get Inspired By Our Leading Wellness Expert
- Dr. Andrew Weil

Halloween is approaching, and we all know what this means. CANDY! SUGAR! Lots of it! Even those of us who try and teach our children not to eat candy all know that many still will. And, of course there are all of us adults who have the candy bowls in our offices.

This may be a good time to ask one of our leading wellness experts, Dr. Andrew Weil about sugar: "How Much Sugar Is Too Much?"

Additional Reads

A Bad Relationship Can Cause Heart Attack. Study: Stress, Anxiety in Hostile Relationships Increase Heart Risk.

It has been the stuff of great romantic novels and blockbuster films. Doctors have long suspected it. A study of 9,000 British civil servants has at last established it is possible to die of a 'broken heart'.

The study, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found the stress and anxiety of hostile, angry relationships can boost the risk of developing heart disease. Chances of a heart attack or chest pain rose by 34 percent compared to people on good terms with a spouse or partner.

Read More...

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Hostility, Anger Linked To Chemical That May Cause Heart Disease - Science Daily

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study has identified one possible reason that people who show high levels of hostility and anger are more likely to develop heart disease.

Researchers at Ohio State University found that men and women with higher levels of hostility also showed higher levels of homocysteine -- a blood chemical strongly associated with coronary heart disease (CHD).

Read more...

Training Tips

Manage Long Term Stress To Avoid Ill Health Effects

Stop Stressing Out!

When stress never seems to go away, our health can suffer.

We all know we're happier when we're less crazed but new studies also find that reducing stress can strengthen your immune system.

Ready to chill out? Meditation, yoga and even a few deep breaths have all been known to do the trick.

Here are some helpful tips on how to help reduce the negative effects of stress.

Read the tips...

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Monthly Buzz....Breast Cancer Awareness Month - "Yoga & Recovery From Breast Cancer."

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I recently came across this terrific article titled, "Yoga Studied As Health Benefit For Breast Cancer Survivors," - Ohio State University Medical Center. They are hopeful that they can find biological evidence that demonstrates that gentle physical activity accessible to virtually everyone might help women in their ongoing recovery from breast cancer.

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Love & Survival, 8 Pathways To Intimacy and Health.

by Dean Ornish, M.D.

"Dean Ornish, who was the first to prove the reversal of heart disease by changing lifestyle, now turns his attention to the heart in a more profound sense. He identifies that love and intimacy are the most powerful healing forces that exist."

This is an emotionally intelligent guide to good health and well-being.

Everyone should read it.

Pumpkins are SO GOOD for us!

The bright orange color of pumpkin is a dead giveaway that pumpkin is loaded with an important antioxidant, beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is one of the plant carotenoids converted to vitamin A in the body. In the conversion to vitamin A, beta carotene performs many important functions in overall health.
Current research indicates that a diet rich in foods containing beta-carotene may reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer and offers protection against heart disease. Beta-carotene offers protection against other diseases as well as some degenerative aspects of aging.

Click here for the Butternut Pumpkin Soup Recipe.

I hope you will enjoy preparing this and eating it as much as we do!