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All This Talk About the Great Depression: Is It Making You Depressed?
RealAge helps consumers gauge financial stress and its health effects
San Diego, CA, November 3, 2008 -- If your blood pressure, heart rate, and stress level are rising with the jobless rate and falling with stock values, the current financial crises could put your long-term health at risk. That’s why RealAge.com, the leading health and wellness Web site, is offering consumers a financial stress test and personalized coping strategies to avoid the devastating effects of financial worries.
Money and work are two of life’s biggest stressors, according to Dr. Michael Roizen, the mind behind RealAge, and his coauthor of the best-selling YOU book series, Dr. Mehmet Oz. In their latest release, YOU: Being Beautiful -- The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty, due on shelves November 11, the physicians reveal that “money issues constitute over 40 percent of the major stresses each person experiences.” In addition, a third of all new illnesses are due to work-related stresses, and each case of work-related stress, depression, or anxiety leads to an average of 30 working days lost a year -- that’s 6 weeks of work!
RealAge’s financial stress test, at http://www.realage.com/FinancialCenter/FinancialStress/Land.aspx,
helps individuals gauge their symptoms and identify healthy habits to reduce stress and bolster mental health.
RealAge offers a practical blend of financial fixes and relaxation tips, including:
- Stick to a budget, no excuses. After all, taking control of your finances can reduce your body’s biological age -- its RealAge -- by as much as 8 years.
- Conquer the feeling of being overwhelmed by breaking big hurdles into manageable steps. First, tackle this week’s bills, and then look at the rest of the month.
- Practice deep breathing, which takes only a few minutes but has huge blues-busting rewards.
For more about strategies for managing financial stress, visit www.RealAge.com, or contact Meredith Wade, RealAge PR, at 858-200-7497.
About RealAge.com
RealAge.com is a healthy-lifestyle Web site that inspires its members to "Live Life to the Youngest" and to pursue their health and wellness goals by making their RealAge younger. The site offers the patented RealAge Test, the most widely used method for measuring overall health, and is the official online home of the YOU Docs, Michael Roizen, MD, and Mehmet Oz, MD, and their best-selling RealAge and YOU books. Over 20 million people have measured their RealAge by taking the RealAge Test and have received a personalized plan to make their RealAge younger. This leading healthy-lifestyle Web site also features more than 65 additional health-risk assessments, as well as health tips and information, all backed by current, valid science. RealAge.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Magazines, a division of the Hearst Corporation.
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