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All this bad news: how are the stress/immune levels holding up?

Wow. With Newtown and now Boston in the news, let alone the intermittent stories that come and go, there is a lot of bad news making headlines. And to intensify it even more, the broadcast and cable networks devote their brand of breathless 24/7 coverage to these stories. My attitude is, for every evil soul [...]

Stress and health come front and center

“According to the World Health Organization, the cost of stress to American businesses is as high as $300 billion.” This is from an opinion piece by Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, one of the most widely read online media properties in the world.

Huffington is writing this week about the convergence of [...]

Two major stories published today relate directly to each other and to your immune health

It’s kind of rare when two major nutrition stories, reported independently, have a direct overlap and also run on the same day. It’s rare, too, when such stories are tied strongly to the immune health world.

Such is the case today.

Story 1. New research is showing more evidence that a Mediterranean diet–one rich in [...]

Nemo, shovels, treadmills and immune function

My daughter is in Manhattan this week. Got there with several of her college-student friends just in time to welcome the Nemo snow storm. Luckily, New York was spared the brunt of the storm, but still got a foot of the white stuff.

So, the digging out starts today. And that connects directly to immune [...]

Training the trainers

Found a good story on immune health among triathletes. It packages the topic very well. It’s good to read it, especially if you are an endurance athlete who trains hard year round, or even if you are someone who has decided to run their first marathon as a New Year’s goal.

Research has suggested that [...]

How about an immune health app?

Personal technology and health continues to advance. Of course, there has always been a tech side of health and fitness, from those amazing digital readouts on treadmills 30 years ago to current wearable devices that track cardio activity, dietary regimens, even perspiration.

TechCrunch, one of the leading media properties covering all things digital, has posted [...]

San Jose’s got it going on. Cited as the healthiest city by several sources.

San Jose, CA,  apparently has the health thing down pretty well. It’s been singled out recently as the healthiest city in America by both The Doctors, an AOL health channel show, and by Self Magazine (The Healthiest Cities for Women).  Sperlings Best Places also gave the top health ranking to San Jose.

You can [...]

Improve your immune health. Step away from the TV.

Hard to do, I realize. TV is still pervasive in many lives. Especially when big events happen. Unfortunately, those events are usually bad news. Terrorism, natural disasters, and now, another terrible mass slaying.

For many people of these add up to hours upon hours of watching the latest updates. I and many others I’m sure [...]

Are you a regular at the water cooler? Your immune health may benefit, if so.

Many things can contribute to strong–or weak–immune function.   The main components, outside of genetics, that can make or break  a healthy immune response are what I’ve called  “The 5 S’s”:  Sleep, Sustenance (healthy diet), Stress (management), Sport (exercise) and Supplementation (EpiCor). I could probably add an H to that list as well, for Hygiene. As [...]

Your daily sense of thanksgiving can improve immune health

I always like to write about the immune benefits of gratitude during Thanksgiving. It’s the idea…with some science behind it….that an ongoing sense of gratitude and thankfulness for all we have can result in better long-term immune health. This, as opposed to pessimism, hate, frustration, victimhood…you know, the dark side.

There are some observational studies [...]