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World Stress Awareness Day 2020: Tips on how to deal with Work-From-Home Stress!
Coping with stress these days is beyond difficult--personal problems, workload, and pandemic. It’s taking a toll on us and it affects our well-being for a while now.
Read: Are you stressed lately?
Most of us right now in the world are working from home, and believe it or not, it’s one of the major sources of stress. All of us dreamt of having this set-up to avoid long queues and traffic jams, but now we’re literally on the verge of adapting and hating it.
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Yes, the sudden transition tremendously affects us in a not...
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Are you stressed lately?
How are you doing lately? Are you stressed right now?
We keep on hearing the word "stressed" more often from our family and friends. We are doing our very best to live with “the new normal” in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. From the school or work from home set-up to doing groceries with extra precautions, we all share the feeling of our lives disrupted, wishing it could go back to the way it was. With all these anxieties and worries piling up, we can easily fall victim to stress.
November 2-6, 2020, is Stress Awareness Week. We aim...
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Improve your Overall Health with a Smile
"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."-William Arthur Ward
Happy World Smile Day! Today is the perfect opportunity to express gratitude to all the blessings you have so far. Not only that, don't forget to thank your loved ones and make sure that you put a smile on their faces too.
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Even if we're still undergoing quarantine, the simple things can make them smile. Buying food for your family or friends, offering to do household chores, surprising them with gifts, offering a listening ear—these small acts can surely make the corners of their...
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Telemedicine: A Viable Solution in Decongesting Hospital and Minimizing Risk in the Philippines
Telemedicine was being introduced and implemented in the Philippines. The executive department of the government and society regulator saw it as a viable solution in addressing the vicious impact of the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.
The Department of Health (DOH) and the National Privacy Commission (NPC) developed a framework to alleviate risks and decongest hospital posed by unnecessary patient.
Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III stated that “DOH is maximizing the use of technology to connect the public with medical professionals, allowing them to secure medical advice without leaving their homes”. Consequently, he also added that “even healthcare workers can...
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Here’s how calorie deficit helps you lose weight
Are you one of the people who have been hoping to lose weight then tried different workout routines from Youtube, purchased different fat burning drinks, starved themselves every single day—yet still having a hard time to achieve that goal? Then it’s about time that you try calorie deficit.
If you have ever tried to lose weight, you’ve likely heard that a calorie deficit is necessary for the process to become effective.
First let us define the sole purpose of calories in our body. First thing you need to know, is that a calorie is actually not a thing—it’s a unit...