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Article: Include relaxation in New Year resolutions. (PMS Access recommends that women suffering from premenstrual syndrome should learn relaxation techniques)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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PMS Access, a national resource center for premenstrual syndrome information, recommends that women with the condition should approach the new year equipped with stress reduction and relaxation techniques. Learning the "relaxation response" is vital to personal health and helps reverse the damaging physical effects of stress.
Events that cause stress can be positive (getting a promotion, having a baby) or negative (a death, car accident, bad weather). While these events can be major, minor, real, or imagined, the body's reaction to them is the same.
The stress response, also called the "fight or flight response," is a specific biochemical reaction occurring ...