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Organizers of the Total Wellness Seminar on Saturday in Litchfield Beach want to increase awareness about lifestyle decisions and preventive steps that factor into everyday health. Neil Fico, chiropractic physician of the Strand Spine Institute, the host for the expo, stressed what he called a wellness protocol. "We try to focus on prevention, awareness and health education, and what that entails,"...
January 28, 2009
ONCE you start at the TOP and begin to think about fitness and good health, the next step is to STOP. Stop eating junk food. Well, you don't have to stop altogether, just stop eating too much of those kinds of foods. Junk food may taste good, and you can still eat your favorites in small amounts, but junk foods do not provide the nutrients that your body needs. There is a reason it's called "junk."...
January 27, 2009
St. Louis wheezed past all other cities last year to become the most dangerous place for people with asthma to live. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America today named the St. Louis region the nation's worst, based on factors including an above-average death rate from asthma, a lack of smoke-free laws and high pollen counts. Breathing hasn't been easy in St. Louis for years, but this is the first...
January 27, 2009
The Defense Department is warning troops to beware of peanut butter crackers in care packages from home as the federal investigation of a salmonella outbreak continues. Defense Department spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said servicemembers are being told to discard treats containing peanut butter. She advised the public to just leave out the suspicious snacks. "Please be mindful that these crackers can be...
January 27, 2009
The government Tuesday accused the peanut butter manufacturer tied to a nationwide salmonella outbreak of shipping products in 2007 and 2008 after internal tests found bacterial contamination, violating food safety regulations. Peanut butter and peanut paste manufactured by the Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) has been tied to the salmonella outbreak that has sickened 501 people in 43 states and is believed...
January 27, 2009
Eating less may help older people improve their memory and prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, says a German study published yesterday. Simple lifestyle changes could help treat dementia and confirm benefits previously shown in animals, said Agnes Floel, a German neurologist who led the study. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
January 26, 2009
Jan. 27 - NEW HAVEN - Aspirin may be good for your liver, protecting it against damage from too much Tylenol and possibly even from obesity and alcohol abuse, according to a new study by a Yale physician. A study by Dr. Wajahat Mehal, published in Monday's edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, shows that liver damage can be prevented by low doses of aspirin. Mehal is associate professor...
January 26, 2009
Jan. 27 - With today's economy and rising food prices, many people are shopping on a budget and thinking they have to sacrifice eating healthfully, but that's not true, two University of Maine educators say. With a little planning, leaving the grocery store with a cart full of healthful items is possible without breaking the bank, Alan Majka, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator, said...
January 26, 2009
Not long after Maria Bruno moved to the Triangle from New York 14 years ago, she started getting bad headaches. "I suffered from sinus migraines," says Bruno, 40. "I don't think that's the technical term, but it's what I called it." The headaches got worse after she turned 30, worse still after her son, now 10, was born. She went to an ear, nose and throat doctor who suggested sinus surgery. "For a...
January 26, 2009
Shirley Mae Almer seemed to be beating the odds. The 72-year-old woman from Perham, Minn., had survived lung cancer surgery and radiation therapy on a brain tumor. Her family planned to bring her home from a Brainerd nursing home for Christmas. Instead, she died Dec. 21, and her children and grandchildren spent the holidays in grief. They soon got a second shock. Minnesota health investigators discovered...
January 26, 2009
Jan. 27 - PLATTSBURGH - A new exercise program designed to help women who have been diagnosed with cancer maintain a positive quality of life will be offered locally in early February. The Wellness Center at PARC and the FitzPatrick Cancer Center are working together to introduce the medically based Lebed Method, a Focus on Healing Through Movement and Dance, to the North Country. The eight-week program...
January 26, 2009
Jan. 26 - Seven years ago when Alma Martinez took over the South Bay's only food pantry for residents with AIDS and HIV, it was a struggle. It was a struggle to keep the nonprofit up to date on its bills. A struggle to collect foods enriched with enough vitamins to help sustain her clients' ravaged bodies. A struggle to cobble enough dollars for them to pay for groceries. So when the student council...
January 26, 2009
Travelling to work by bike is both good for your health and can boost a company's profits, the Dutch transport ministry said Monday. "Employees who regularly travel to work by bike are, on average, ill one day less a year than the others. Therefore they are better value," Transport Secretary Tineke Huizinga said in a statement. Almost a third of Dutch people bicycle to work at least three times a week....
January 26, 2009
Sara Feigen didn't know how many people would take part in the fundraising walk she organized at Danbury High School last year. So when 300 people showed up for her Turkey Trot to Fight Diabetes on Nov. 9, the 17-year-old senior was ecstatic. "There were faces that I'd never seen before," she said. "It was so nice to know that people supported it." The walkathon not only raised more than $2,700 for...
January 25, 2009
JACKSON, Miss. Amanda Hayes of Yazoo City, Miss., has been waiting for a kidney since 1994, so she has some pretty strong opinions about organ donation. She favors giving preference on the national organ donation list to recipients who have taken good care of their health, despite their disease, and would take care of the new organ. Hayes goes to dialysis three times a week, doesn't drink and keeps...
January 25, 2009
The surging popularity of small cigars, available in fruit and candy flavors, is prompting state and local governments to try to regulate and tax them like cigarettes. Baltimore announced this month that, beginning in October, it will require single cigars retailing for less than $2.50 each to be sold in packs of five. Last year, three states - Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island - passed...
January 25, 2009
A Gainesville man and his 8-year-old son were visiting South Florida last summer when his son was bitten on the cheek by a dog. Gushing blood, the boy was taken to Homestead Hospital's emergency room. Staffers stopped the bleeding, then recommended he get a plastic surgeon to stitch shut the wound so that it didn't leave an ugly scar. Lindsey Browning checked and found the hospital was in-network for...
January 25, 2009
A survey of cancer patients being treated at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center indicates that many of the smokers did not quit the habit in light of their diagnosis and some of them were not even advised to do so by their doctors. "It absolutely benefits patients to quit," said Dr. Jame Abraham, chief of oncology at WVU Hospitals and the medical director of the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center in...
January 25, 2009
It's fair to say Loretta Strandberg went home with a healthy mind-set Saturday. After testing her blood pressure, blood sugar and lung functions, and assessing her balance, flexibility, grip and physical strength, the 62-year-old was deemed to be in good health at the third annual Pueblo Health Expo. Not that the retired Department of Motor Vehicles employee had any worries, but "I just like to keep...
January 25, 2009
Researchers at the state health department and the University of Utah are on the hunt for why 1,400 babies are born with birth defects each year. For 80 percent of the cases, there is no known cause, which means there is no cure. But lawmakers may have placed the work - along with the $1.5 million federal funds it draws each year - in jeopardy. Last week, nearly all of the Republican members of an...
January 25, 2009
You could be on the rocky road to flab if you slurp a Baskin-Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Shake - a new book ranks it the worst food in the nation. The shake, with 2,600 calories and 135 grams of fat, tops the 20 "worst" restaurant foods of 2009, according to "Eat This, Not That!" Baskin-Robbins says the concoction was offered last summer and is no longer on its menu. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc....
January 24, 2009
Many overweight people in the USA have "sitting disease" and would lose weight if they did more walking, standing and moving around during the day, says endocrinologist James Levine of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Levine is talking about increasing your NEAT, or "non-exercise activity thermogenesis," which accounts for much of your movement and therefore caloric expenditure throughout the day....
January 23, 2009
You could be on the rocky road to flab if you slurp a Baskin-Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Shake - a new book ranks it the worst food in the nation. The shake, with 2,600 calories and 135 grams of fat, tops the 20 "worst" restaurant foods of 2009, according to "Eat This, Not That!" Baskin-Robbins says the concoction was offered last summer and is no longer on its menu. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc....
January 23, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. Aquil McSwain was working late into the night at a recording studio when he decided to sleep there. He awoke to find a team of emergency technicians surrounding him. He had suffered a seizure, they said, and one of the other musicians called an ambulance. McSwain was 24 and had never had a seizure before, so he refused to go to the hospital. But a few months later, the Orlando, Fla.,...
January 22, 2009
SAN ANTONIO - "I didn't start out to be a geriatrician. I became one because my patients and I have grown old together," geriatrician Dr. Jerald Winakur wrote in his book "Memory Lessons." Winakur's new book on what he calls the "art" of doctoring, is "part memoir, part manifesto." In it, he probes and palpates, thoroughly examining our current health-care system and its sometimes frightening predicted...
January 22, 2009
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