Qualifying supplements
DID YOU REALIZE that the vitamins and other dietary supplements you use are not regulated the same way that prescriptions drugs are by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? Luckily, an independent certification program,...
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Staying fit on the road
MAINTAINING FITNESS is a challenge when you travel, but absolutely possible. 1. Opt out. Don’t cram too many activities into each day. This is my number-one rule for travel and at home. Build a...
Muscular dystrophy awareness
THE MUSCULAR Dystrophy Association (MDA) has enlisted the support of firefighters nationwide for the 57th annual Fill the Boot summer fundraising campaign. Watch for intersection collection activities in your community in June, July and...
Midday naps can refuel your brain
SET ASIDE YOUR notion of siestas—those long midday naps—as the lazy person’s excuse to slumber. Numerous recent studies show that shut-eye lasting up to 90 minutes not only helps build and boost brain power,...
Pain-relief primer
YOU’VE GOT a headache. Or you twisted your ankle. Perhaps you’re feverish. Different pains and ailments require different treatments. However, choosing the right painkiller off the shelf can be a headache-inspiring experience of its...
A different take on the much-maligned potato
IF THE POTATO HAD a personality, it might be like Rodney Dangerfield’s: It can’t get no respect. We eat them, but they don’t have the best reputation. And that, say some experts, is just...
Teaching kids to eat slower, smaller and more often
CHILDREN ARE BORN grazers. If left to their own resources, children would nibble, dip and sip—or graze—their way throughout the day. The eating tips for all ages, especially if they are suffering from mood...
Don’t brush it off
Ludwig’s angina, a potentially life-threatening infection of the floor of the mouth, usually starts with a dental infection caused by poor oral health and can cause a person’s airway to swell shut. Although more...
When little things turn big
Early steps can prevent life-threatening illnesses WHAT DO BROKEN HIPS, amputations and dental infections have in common? They can all start with a seemingly small event that rapidly escalates into life-threatening conditions. In many...
Put Your Best Feet Forward
As the weather gets warmer, open-toed shoes will put feet on display. You may be tempted to forego the sandals — or wear them with socks, risking a citation from the fashion police —...
Anti-Aging: The Pro’s Secrets
Forget a personal chef – if we won the lottery, we’d enlist a personal dermatologist to hover by our side so that we’d get the ultimate advice on how to treat our skin. We’d...
Easing Back Pain With Electricity
How debilitating can back pain be? Dr. Shaff: Back pain is, I believe, the number two cause of missed work days in the United States. The only one that’s superior to that is the...
Food Fight: Generation X-tra Large
Millions of kids are struggling with their weight. In fact, today’s children are the first generation of Americans projected to have a shorter life span than their parents. “I ate a lot of chips...
Super-SIZE Your Day: Health
Which kind of nuts should we eat and how much? Most nuts are going to be healthy. Almost all nuts are going to be high in your polyunsaturated and your monounsaturated fats, which are...
Take Control of Birth Control
Beads, patches and rings — no, we’re not talking about fashion accessories. We’re talking about new birth control options. Which one’s right for you? Before you decide you should explore the pros and cons...
Asthma Is No Laughing Matter
Laughter may lower blood pressure and boost immunity, among other therapeutic benefits. But for those with asthma, a hearty giggle is no laughing matter. Like other strong emotions and expressions of stress, such as...
Hungry? Your Food may Taste Stronger
A new study shows hunger may be associated with an increased ability to taste. Researchers from the University of Malawi in Zomba studied 16 men who agreed to skip breakfast. The men had not...
Female Stress Syndrome
Everyone has stress in their life. Whether it’s your career, your family or balancing both. Living under constant stress can keep you up at night and ruin the quality of your life. It can...
Fertility in Older Women
It seems there is hope for women over age 40 when it comes to fertility treatments. A study reports artificial insemination may be a less expensive and somewhat effective treatment in women over 40....
Flexibility for Diabetics
For type 2 diabetics, a strict regimen of daily medication and carefully planned meals has traditionally been the key to warding off an imbalance in blood-sugar levels. However, the latest drugs are making life...
Inhaling Insulin
More than 100,000 children and young adults live with type 1 diabetes. Their bodies do not produce the insulin needed to process sugar in the diet. Without daily shots of insulin and a strict...
Healthy Travel
Summer is always a booming travel time. However, just because you’re on a trip doesn’t mean you have to forget what you’ve learned about eating smart and staying in shape. For Andy, lifting weights...
Freshen Up
If you don’t eat enough vegetables, you are not alone. The portability and sweetness of fruits make them relatively easy to incorporate into a healthy diet. But many of us still find it difficult...
What are some of these non-drug behaviors to treating insomnia?
Dr. Stepanski: The behavioral treatments encompass a whole lot of changes. One of the biggest changes that we focus on is trying to limit the amount of time people spend in bed. When people...
The Mystery of Sleep: Insomnia
What exactly is insomnia? Dr. Stepanski: Well, insomnia is by far the most common type of sleep disorder in that it occurs anytime someone cannot get to sleep when they want to, they can’t...
Biological Clocks Ticking Fast
New research shows the decline in fertility as people age may be happening at faster rates than once believed. Most studies on age-related changes in fertility have not separated changes due to a reduction...
Melatonin
In the middle of the night 5 million people in the U-S are on the job. . . awake at 3 a-m — running our hospitals, our factories — we depend on them to...
Pumpkin Facial Peel
A new brush-on cosmetic peel is being made from pure pumpkin — yes, the kind of pumpkin pies are made from. Cosmetic Dermatologist: “There are well over 100 separate chemicals as part of a...
Balancing Act
People with the most serious type of diabetes can’t produce the insulin their bodies need to convert food into energy. They must rely on insulin injections. Mary has to juggle self-injections of insulin, regular...
Arsenic Linked to Atherosclerosis
A new study reveals long-term ingestion of inorganic arsenic, a contaminant often found in some well water, may be linked to heart attacks, strokes and diseased arteries. For the first time, researchers report a...