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MANILA, Philippines – More time or more money? Why not make the best of both? By sharpening your mind to recognize the hows and whys of spending resources wisely, you can get a better hold of your life and where you want to lead it.  1. Start small. End bigger. When it comes to money, surprisingly time is on your side. Start young and commit to a goal! This puts you in a better position to capitalize on the opportunities that come your way. That’s why when it comes to investing your money – the now is always the best time to start. The earlier you start investing – the greater your earning potential becomes. Try getting investment plans that start with as low as P10,000 and start building your wealth early. Couple this with smarter spending habits, and you can take greater strides toward financial freedom. 2. Destroy your distractions. “What’s going on on Facebook?” “Oohh Instagram likes!” “Maybe I can do this later. Gonna watch my shows.” Distractions are weapons of mass procrastination. By doing less useful things in a day, you end up wasting time and in most cases lose potential income. Train your mind to recognize them as enemies of productivity. Need a quick solution to the perils of procrastinating? Put your mind on a distraction diet and reward yourself with 15 minutes of surfing or watching time AFTER you’ve completed a task.  Distractions can also take the form of those awesome yet totally useless purchases Read More …

Do you usually have abdominal pain and cramping? Is this followed by soft stools and bloating of the stomach? Do you feel your stomach acting up, getting noisy and uncomfortable especially in times of stress? Do you have bouts of diarrhea or constipation? If so, you could have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). But don’t get irritated because millions of people have it. In Japan, 40% of individuals have an irritable bowel, probably from stress. IBS can be inherited and usually occurs in anxious or depressed individuals. Diagnosis and possible causes If you are looking for a weakness of medical science, then IBS is probably one. Just imagine, there is no laboratory test to confirm the disease. You can only say that a person probably has IBS based on vague symptoms like abdominal cramps, bloating, frequent diarrhea, and/or constipation. It’s a strange feeling — like you need to move your bowel again even after you’ve just been to the bathroom. Medically, doctors formulated the Rome’s criteria for IBS. If you read the standard medical textbook, there is no definite cause for an irritable bowel. They say it has something to do with “sensitive” nerves, which is a nice way of saying “we don’t know anything at all.” What about stress? Doctors are divided on whether stress can cause IBS. From my experience, stress definitely worsens symptoms of IBS, especially mental stress like work, deadlines, and life’s problems. Lifestyle Feature ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: Natural therapy There are medicines Read More …

Mrs. Rodriguez brought his son Jordan to my clinic because of recurrent itching.  He was five when I first saw him.  His face, especially the areas around his eyes, was red, scaly, and dry; his neck was thick and extremely rough and scaly with a lot of scratch marks on it.  The areas in front of his elbows and the back of his knees where also thickened with linear lines and excoriations (tiny spots of removed skin, sometimes with bleeding). The poor kid was scratching incessantly and appeared tired and sleepy.  He was irritable, too.  Mrs. Rodriguez was complaining that she had sleepless nights trying to comfort Jordan and that she had been to several doctors, but Jordan’s problem remained unabated and seemed to be worsening with time. Jordan’s problem is skin asthma, known in medical terms as atopic dermatitis or eczema.  It is a relapsing skin condition that causes inflammation, redness, and itchy rashes.  The bad thing is that there is no known single cause for atopic dermatitis.  It is a largely genetic skin disorder characterized by an inherited barrier defect (a defect in the skin’s protective covering function).  This barrier failure causes increased permeability of the skin and reduces its antimicrobial function.  A loss in this protective covering factor results in flattening of the skin’s surface, disruption of the skin’s lipid organization, and reduction of moisturizing factors.  This leads to an increase in the skin’s acidity, which encourages certain enzymes to digest the lipids and proteins that hold Read More …