Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
So my twin daughters are winding up their senior year in high school. We just went to the last vocal jazz performance of their high school career. The same thing will be happening in all the other music ensembles they are in for the next 2 months. The last this, the last that. In a little [...]
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults make New Year’s resolutions, and the most popular one, according to information portal USA.gov, is losing weight. Some people attempt to do it the right way: slowly, steadily, not denying yourself good nutrition, getting exercise, good sleep habits, and staying with it over the long term. Others will do it [...]
OK, you’ve survived Black Friday. And along the way, you ‘ve probaby got yourself exposed to a lot of pathgens in the malls. You and your teen-aged daughter probably went to see “New Moon” and sat in theater seats occupied by countless others in the prior week, with no germocidal spray applied to those seats [...]
The next-gen iPhone. The new Droid. The technology continues to bedazzle. We all know how the cell phone has evolved. First it was a clunky box you installed in the trunk of your car, wired to a hand set holstered in your center console. You could only use the phone to make and receive phone [...]
This week Chicago Tribune nutrition writer Julie Deardorf posted a piece on nutrition and immune health. She laid out a lot of good information, especially regarding so-called immune “boosting” pills/products such as the “Airborne” over-the-counter cold/flu remedy that had to cough up nearly $30 million in settlement money for labeling their packaging and advertising with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The frontiers of human health–including immune system research–continue to widen and deepen and generally blow up a lot of so-called orthodoxy about how the body works–especially at the cellular level.
An announcement from Stanford University late last week about a student project competition demonstrated how cell biology and genetic research continue to change conventional approaches to [...]
As fall and winter draw nearer, we continue to see a lot of concern and uncertainty being aired far and wide about the possible coming storm of potentially more virulent H1N1.
Naturally, one thing on people’s minds: Shaking hands. And how to protect yourself if you do have to shake someone’s hand. One solution: adopt the [...]
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