Flair & Balance
Here’s a collection of stories that connect to the “balance” factor. Some older, some new. Hopefully, all credible and worth the read.
- Allergies: Clearing the Air
This NBC Nightly News story gets at the heart of immune balance: helping immune systems “learn” how to react to pathogens and allergans in a way the keeps miserable symptoms at bay. - Give Stress More Respect
Tara Parker-Pope’s Well Blog at the New York Times serves up a good piece on how stress morphs into sickness and health problems. Immune balance can offset physical manifestations of stress. - Immune Systems Increasingly On Attack
This Washington Post piece gives a good overview of how Western populations have altered their immune systmes over the decades to a point where chronic conditions are becoming commonplace. Kind of alarming. - Why Men Die Sooner
This is WebMD’s (through CBS) review of a new book about men’s higher mortality rate compared to women. Why? Pent up stress and the out-of-kilter immune response it causes could be one reason. Very interesting. - America’s Most Stressful Cities
Forbes ranks Chicago as numero uno.
