Gambling Away Your Future
Just take a chance - you might win big! The lure of easy money is powerful. What if you could spend a single dollar and win millions in the lottery? You start out buying one ticket, then another and another - but you never win anything substantial.
You might win twenty dollars and use it to buy more tickets. Once you get the gambling bug, it’s a short step from buying a lottery ticket at the convenience store to pulling a chair up to the slot machines in a casino.
With so many online gambling sites, it’s easy for anyone to gamble – even those who are underage, and teenage gambling addictions are growing. The sites say you have to be over 18 or 21, but who’s checking the IDs? (more…)
March 2, 2008
Hypnotism for Curbing Sugar Cravings
If the thought of hypnotherapy freaks you out of your gourd, you don’t have to do it. In fact, you CAN’T be hypnotized if you don’t want to be. If you are going through a food addiction or are morbidly obese or need help curbing sugar cravings to improve your health, then you can feel safe knowing that there are natural and non-surgical options open to you. You can get hypnotized either by a hypnotherapist or by yourself.
Dog Drool
Pavlov’s infamous experiments in proving that associations exist will explain how hypnotism works. In his experiment, Pavlov rang a bell before feeding a dog. Dogs drool at the sight of food. After a few feeds, the dog began to drool as soon as the bell was rung. The dog had associated the sound of the bell with yummies. Hypnotism works in the same way in curbing sugar cravings. (more…)
February 29, 2008
Addiction to Dangerous Relationships
The most wonderful date of your life may become your nightmare if you’re in the sights of a dangerous man. He may be charming and exciting – boasting about his exciting and lucrative career, but in reality, his profile is not how he makes it appear.
Your grandmother used a term, “bum’s rush” to describe someone who shows up and takes over your life, ruining it before disappearing. Yesterday’s bum is today’s modern predator – and some of these men (and women) have worked hard to attract their prey. (more…)
January 31, 2008
Natural Cure for Chocolate Cravings
We have come on a little since the time when chocolate cravings – or even simply eating chocolate – were associated only with negative results. How many times have you been told that your teeth will rot, or that your blood sugar level will shoot through the roof, if you eat too much chocolate? However, some recent studies have found that eating chocolate can, in fact, have positive effects on our body and mind. But the overall balance is still negative, so perhaps we should be looking to see if there is any chance of finding a natural cure for chocolate cravings. (more…)
January 21, 2008
Crave Salty Foods? Think Twice!
If you crave salty foods, you are not alone. It is estimated that the average American eats about fifteen pounds of salt a year. Some cravings for food can be healthier than other food cravings, and then there are food cravings that can be downright dangerous to your health.
Salty Diet Can Affect Your Health
If you crave salty foods, you are craving a substance that can send your blood pressure soaring, which is harmful to your health. Other dangers associated with a salty diet include hypertension and the leaching of calcium from your bones. (more…)
January 15, 2008
Addictions: Sugar - It’s Your Responsibility
“Right, folks,” said Archangel Raphael to the room full of guardian angels in training. “We need to get the word out there to our charges about a powerful and subtle addiction that can kill millions of not only people, but pets and animals. The addiction — sugar!” After the angel training class groaned, Raphael grimaced and said, “What?s the problem now? Don’t you want to help protect your future charges or not?”
Back To The Real World
Did you react with the same groans the guardian angel class did when they heard about sugar addiction? Sugar is a pleasure and in and of itself is harmless fun. Do you think an Addiction Policeman is going to burst into your home and say, “Ah-ha! Addiction! Sugar and what else I wonder?” Don’t doctors have anything else better to do than tell us what to eat and what not to eat? (more…)