{"id":3151,"date":"2015-11-02T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eternahealthfood.com\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:44:07","slug":"hugs-the-little-know-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/weekly-health-tips\/hugs-the-little-know-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugs, The Little Known Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Hugs, the little know medicine\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Did you know the average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds?\u00a0 Researchers have discovered when a hug lasts 20 seconds; there is a therapeutic effect on the mind and body.\u00a0 The reason is that a sincere hug produces a hormone called \u201coxytocin\u201d, also known as the love hormone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This substance has many benefits in our physical and mental health. It helps us, among many things, to relax, to feel safe and calm our fears and anxiety.\u00a0 This wonderful calming is offered free of charge every time we have a person in our arms-cradling a child, cherishing a dog or cat, or dancing with our partner.\u00a0 The closer we get to someone or just hold the shoulders of a friend, the better we will feel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugs, the little know medicine\u00a0 Did you know the average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds?\u00a0 Researchers have discovered when a hug lasts 20 seconds; there is a therapeutic effect on the mind and body.\u00a0 The reason is that a sincere hug produces a hormone called \u201coxytocin\u201d, also known as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}