Category Archives: health
Road trip! Eat healthy — anywhere
(Health.com) — Whether you’re heading to a spa for a girls-only weekend or chugging down the highway in a car full of Disney-crazed kids, a road trip is the ultimate rite of summer. But along with the classic rock blasting on the radio, road trips often involve the kinds of food you’d never think of eating at home–neon-orange cheese curls, mega-ounce slushies, unidentifiable dried meat in a plastic pack. Continue reading
Anxiety in youth linked to later heart attacks
(Health.com) — Men diagnosed with anxiety in their late teens or early 20s are more than twice as likely to have heart disease or a heart attack later in life than their more laid-back peers, according to a new Swedish study. As many as 28 percent of people are diagnosed with anxiety at some point in their lives, according to an editorial accompanying the study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Anxiety is more than feeling stressed out. Continue reading
Whooping cough reported in California
(NEWS.GNOM.ES) — California health officials say there’s an increase in cases of whooping cough, which is believed to have killed five people in the past few months. The disease peaks in August and September, according to Al Lundeen, a spokesman for the state Department of Health Continue reading
OK urged for 5-day ‘morning after’ pill
(NEWS.GNOM.ES) — An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Thursday to an emergency contraceptive for use up to five days after sex. Continue reading
Drug for women who don’t want sex?
(NEWS.GNOM.ES) — When Cyndi met her husband at a picnic on the beach nearly 20 years ago, the two had instant physical chemistry. “We would kiss and my hormones would go riding Continue reading
Author: Who will teach my daughters?
Editor’s note: Imagine being a father and finding out you were going to die. Continue reading
Feiler: Who will teach my daughters?
Editor’s note: Imagine being a father and finding out you were going to die. Who would be there for your kids Continue reading
Eating more: The key to never dieting again?
( Elle.com ) — As a child, were you encouraged to clean your plate and then go back for seconds? If so, you probably didn’t grow up in France, where children are taught to savor the feeling of longing, or envie, for their next course (just think of the cheese!). Our differing notions of satisfaction were examined in a 2006 study of 133 Parisians and 145 Chicagoans published in the journal Obesity Continue reading
Should you test your genes?
(NEWS.GNOM.ES) — Like anyone else, Dr. Rachel Zahn loves a deal, so when a friend e-mailed her a link to an internet site offering $99 genetic testing — usually it costs $499 — she figured, “Why not?” and sent away for the test. Now she’s thinking — Why Continue reading