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  • This Is Your Body on Stress

    Whether you find yourself facing a minor fender-bender, a looming deadline or a fast-approaching locomotive, any stressful event can trigger a series of well-coordinated, nearly instantaneous reactions in your body. Often known as the “fight-or-flight” response, this process evolved as a survival mechanism for humans and other mammals to react quickly to life-threatening situations, helping them to fight off danger or escape to safety.

  • Five Health Risks of Stress

    The brain’s response to acute stress is amazing, triggering a series of instinctive reactions to ready the body for fight — or flight. And when the perceived danger or threat passes, stress hormones go back to normal levels, and your body returns to normal function.

  • The Food and Mood Connection

    When we feel stressed-out, many of us reach for food to improve our mood. But foods and moods are connected by more than a psychological need for comfort. They are linked through stress-driven changes that occur in our bodies.

  • Lower Your Stress Level in 10 Minutes

    Everyone experiences stress. Whether it’s short-term stress from getting caught in a traffic jam or long-term concerns over finances, the more stress you have, the more it can affect your health and well-being.

  • Stress and Fertility

    Chronic stress can disrupt the fertility cycle, from the speed and shape of sperm to the frequency of ovulation. While experts don’t fully understand how this happens, it is widely believed that high levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol play a key role.

  • Orlando Health to install free sunscreen dispensers at Seminole parks

    Bicyclists, joggers, softball players or anyone else enjoying one of a half dozen Seminole County parks soon will be able to protect themselves from sunburn or skin cancer for free.

  • Going the Distance: How a Nurse-Patient Bond Helped Marathoner Get Her Life Back

    Marathoner Kelley Duell found her calling before she ever laced up a pair of trainers.

  • Orlando Health Network saved nearly $160 million in healthcare costs

    Orlando, FL (January 17, 2023) Since 2013, Orlando Health Network has generated nearly $160 million in savings for the federal government’s Medicare Shared Savings Program, commercial insurers, self-funded employers and patients, according to the Clinically Integrated Network Value Report 2022.

  • On the Edge of Crisis

    It seemed like an ordinary workday morning. Except that Cristina Settanni was running late. The registered nurse at Orlando Health UF Health Cancer Center needed a faster route to work so she took  a toll road she typically avoids. As she crossed an overpass toward her exit, something caught her eye.

  • Orlando Health earns 2020 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Recognition

    Orlando, FL (October 6, 2020) – Orlando Health, a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization that serves the southeastern United States, has again earned a prestigious Quality Award from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Announced on Oct. 6, the 2020 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired award recognizes the hospital system as a certified Level 8, which signals its commitment to integrate technology to benefit patients.