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By Aydan Corkern
 Do you know why it is good to get all the sleep you need? Well, it can do some things to your body like make you stressed out, tired, and cranky. You can have bad mood swings, and it affects you psychologically and emotionally. It can make you fall asleep at the wheel and make you have an accident. It can give you headaches or sometimes migraines, which are very bad and painful. Your eating habits will be messed up, and you will not eat as much as you should to keep your body strong and healthy. When you do not get the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep every night, then you can have high blood pressure. It can cause you to get diabetes, and you can have impaired glucose tolerance.
It can make you weak and you can fall down. For people that are older, they have to get a lot of sleep or this can happen to them and they can get hurt. You can get a lot of medical problems, and it can even make you
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Some Tools To Help Overcome Addiction
By Jonas Smith
 Regardless of the addiction, be it drugs, alcohol, gambling, relationships, etc., a 12-step program is the fundamental tool of many recovery programs. The basic 12 steps that groups' members actively stress are as follows, varying in some degree per addiction recovery program. Note that no particular religion or spiritual affiliation is required. All are welcome and invited.
12-Step Program
1. We admit we are powerless over our addiction - that our lives have become unmanageable
2. We believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
6. We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
7. We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
8. We made a list of
Are you making New Year's resolutions?
By Dr. Jennifer Baxt, DMFT, NCC, DCC
 With Christmas just around the corner and New Years not far off, people are soon going to be thinking of what new promises they would like to make to themselves for 2009. There are many out there who dont think too much about making new resolutions, either because they dont believe in doing such a thing or they have never been able to keep up with them in the past. Others continue to make new resolutions every year, either because they feel they have kept up with them well enough in the past to warrant making a new one, or they legitimately want to make a lasting change in their lives. Regardless of whether your friends or relatives feel making resolutions are important or not, what really matters is if you would like to make a resolution for yourself.
A New Years resolution is basically a promise that one makes to their self for that year, whether it is to lose twenty pounds, to quit smoking or to minimize the number of drinks they have per day. It is something
Learn Some Great Health Insurances Advantages
By Anthony Jones
 The term health insurance is generally used to describe a form of insurance that pays for medical expenses. It is sometimes used more broadly to include insurance covering disability or long-term or needs nursing care. It may be provided by a government-sponsored social insurance, or private insurance companies. May be purchased on a group basis (for example, by a company to cover its employees) or purchased by individual consumers. In each case, cover of groups or individuals pay premiums or taxes to help protect against unforeseen or high costs of health care. Similar benefits to pay medical expenses may also be provided through social welfare programs financed by the government.
Premiums for health care continue to increase and employers moving a portion of insurance costs for employees. However, employers are not offering comprehensive health care benefits because of their cost. To help offset the bite associated with these higher costs for employers and employees, some employers are implementing health care flexible spending accounts (F.S.As).
The costs are rising and profits are declining, but to find health insurance and family in California
Learn About Marijuana Usage
By Jonas Smith
 There are a lot of people who are of the opinion that marijuana is not a harmful drug and that it should be as legal to buy and use as alcohol. Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States. Besides alcohol, marijuana is the most commonly used drug by young people.
Marijuana is a dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, it usually is smoked as a cigarette (joint, nail), or in a pipe (bong). It also is smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana, often in combination with another drug. It might also be mixed in food or brewed as a tea.
As a more concentrated, resinous form it is called hashish and, as a sticky black liquid, hash oil. Marijuana smoke has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor. Some people think that the smoke smells like burning rope.
There are countless street terms for marijuana including pot, herb, weed, grass, widow, ganja, and hash,
Learn About Relationship Addiction
By Jonas Smith
 One major addiction facing many people because of the nature of its definition is relationship addiction or co-dependency. It is a learned dependent behavioural condition, generally with the existence of emotional, physical and / or sexual abuse, that affects people with or related (not necessarily "blood related" but environmentally or socially) to those having alcohol or drug, gambling, sex, food, work or other dependencies, or the mentally ill. This unhealthy condition is learned from the abusers' relationships and affects a person's ability to have a healthy relationship.
Co-dependent is associated with "dysfunctional family" members or those feeling anger, shame, fear or pain mainly because of the addiction that is "unspoken" or discussed. The person or persons addicted are in denial and don't admit their dependencies or problems surrounding them. And those in relationships with them adapt this type behaviour as well, keeping the "status quo" at an even keel to avoid confrontational issues and rock the boat.
Co-dependent people repress their emotions and ignore their own needs while being compulsive caretakers for the addicts. And as a result they become "survivors."
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