Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
We’re full swing into fall at my house, and that means big-time schedule frenzy. My high school kids are in every activity possible, and during the week, don’t get home until 9 or 10 at night, then begin homework. They just finished ACTs, my wife is studying for her next professional designation in financial planning, [...]
I attended two presentations in the past two days on “cloud computing.” I was slightly out of place; a nutrition and health communicator wedged into a swarm of IT geeks and computer engineering professors and researchers. But I wanted to learn because my blogging, my health social network building and other communications applications are all [...]
What better than a nursing education blog to offer up 100 tips on staying healthy during the cold/flu season. They all make sense, but I pity the soul who tries to do them all. Group just a few of these tips together: “#63 Don’t get too close: If you know someone is sick, avoid them [...]
Several years ago, when I worked for a human nutraceutical company, I recall one of the senior scientists there talking about skin cells and sunburn. To overly simplify his tutorial, he explained that when your skin turns red after prolonged sun exposure, a lot of that redness is not actual sunburn cells, but rather healthy [...]
My seasonal college football fanaticism is under way. And one of the first news makers of the young season this past week was the University of Wisconsin football team having to cope with 40 players being hit with H1N1. Wow. They barely got by Fresno State. I’m sure we will hear something wacky pretty soon [...]
Think about it. What do you feel like after you’ve sat around with a group of friends and reminisced about days gone by, plowed over stories of college hi jinks, talked about former jobs and trips and games? Most likely you come away from those group free-for-alls feeling great and in high spirits. You probably [...]
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The Forbes rankings for “America’s Most Stressful Cities” are out again this fall. Leading the way again in 2009 is Chicago, a repeat winner from last year. Number 5 on the list is…not Philadelphia, not Detroit, not Washington D.C….but Providence, RI! Wow. How [...]
The LA Times and Chicago Tribune both ran a feature on food nutrition today that provides the latest consumer information–very well packaged and explained–on the concept of immune balance. This story pertains specifically to inflammation and how an over-reactive immune system can turn a simple inflammatory episode into a chronic health condition. The piece talks [...]
For the first time scientists have caught on film–in real time–immune cells attacking and gobbing up bacteria. This is pretty cool stuff. Click the photo to go to a video, complete with narration, showing the whole process. (You’ll have to endure a 30-second ad before it starts). The immune cells are in green, the bacteria–e.coli [...]
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