Are you in a position to influence the decision of a college student to join a fraternity or sorority?

There are things you can do to help young adults make that decision.  But the ability to discern appropriate and valuable friends comes long before college.  Relationships created in sororities and fraternities can have long lasting consequences, some good – others not so good.  If a child has been active in being able to determine what worthy friendships are, they are much more able to make a decision regarding relationships in college.

A genuine friend keeps a promise, follows through with what he or she says, sacrifices for the other, respects and honors, is courteous, builds character, and is a positive connection in helping one realize their dreams.

Often the reasons for joining a particular organization have more to do with risky behavior than stable behavior.  Past decisions regarding friends are a good indicator of future choices.  Since an adult is more than likely going to be in the position to pay for expensive member organizations, it is well within that adult’s responsibility to assess and evaluate any organization in which a child is interested.

Zari Alipour, Ph.D.

Making Wise Choices in a Disruptive Age

Most overweight and obese people know the value of nutrition and
exercise. But they are unable to follow the program. They fail because
of problems that are subconscious, they may not even be aware of it.
The commercial weight loss programs unable to address this issue.
But if you are able to own the responsibility for your problem, and get
the proper support you can resolve your issues permanently and become successful with the management of your weight.

You can send your question I will address your questions every Sundays.

Are you in a position to influence the decision of a college student to join a fraternity or sorority?

There are things you can do to help young adults make that decision.  But the ability to discern appropriate and valuable friends comes long before college.  Relationships created in sororities and fraternities can have long lasting consequences, some good – others not so good.  If a child has been active in being able to determine what worthy friendships are, they are much more able to make a decision regarding relationships in college.

A genuine friend keeps a promise, follows through with what he or she says, sacrifices for the other, respects and honors, is courteous, builds character, and is a positive connection in helping one realize their dreams.

Often the reasons for joining a particular organization have more to do with risky behavior than stable behavior.  Past decisions regarding friends are a good indicator of future choices.  Since an adult is more than likely going to be in the position to pay for expensive member organizations, it is well within that adult’s responsibility to assess and evaluate any organization in which a child is interested.

Zari Alipour, Ph.D.

Making Wise Choices in a Disruptive Age

Dr. Zari is a psychologist for adolescents and adults.  She teaches adolescents how to make decisions that are in their best interests and empowers teachers, counselors and parents with the words and accountability tools that reinforce healthy choices

Stress is both cause and effect; it causes obesity by producing hormones during stress phase and cause you to over-eat. Your lifestyle, job, and your relationship could be producing stress and making you obese. If you are active, always on the run and success-oriented, and living an unbalanced lifestyle, you could be preparing yourself for obesity by improper eating and by producing unneeded hormones in your body.

You may be on your way to suffering a heart attack. Physiologically, in response to a real or perceived threat, your “fight or flight response” is activated. This stimulates the adrenal gland to produce epinephrine. The release of epinephrine in the blood stimulates release of insulin, which lowers the blood sugar level, and as a result you experience hunger. You eat to relieve the hunger and the cycle continues. Reaction to stress can be either biochemical or psychological. In response to a serious emotional situation, whether it is positive or negative, you experience arousal that is either physiological or psychological.

You may experience physiological changes such as increased heart rate, pounding heart, sweaty hands, increased respiration, tense muscles and butterflies in your stomach. Psychologically, you may experience fear or anxiety. How one perceives the situation can cause biochemical changes in one’s body.

Studies on laboratory rats and other animals exposed to stressful situations confirm these biochemical changes in individuals exposed to stressful situations. But the interesting finding was that the level of biochemical changes varied from rat to rat, and the same for the other animals. This confirms that a healthy mental attitude and ability to skillfully handle the stressful situation can reduce the biochemical changes in your brain.
During a stressful situation several hormones produced. Of these, the three main hormones released are as follow:

Epinephrine– increased cortisol– increased and tryptophane– reduced.

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