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As our society grows increasingly more time deficient, many families rely on restaurants to provide their family with their dinner time meals. Most times one parent is shuffling the kids to and from practices, meetings, and activities while trying to get something into their stomachs before they reach their destination. In this article by Andrew M. Seaman, he talks about the problem with consuming meals at neighborhood restaurants because they are loaded with salt and calories. Despite public health progress in cutting calories, as well as salt and fat from fast foods and supermarket … [Read more...] about Small restaurants serving big calories, salt: studies

Exercise is such a powerful tool in our repertoire of modalities to mold our children into healthy functioning individuals.  It often gets overlooked in both the lives of adults and children. This great article by Mike Adams has so much great information on our role as role models to our children. One of the most important things parents can give to their children is a physical education or involvement in organized sports activity. Physical education has slipped in priority over the last few years, especially in our public schools. Some schools don't even have recess anymore. They're … [Read more...] about Physical education is key to improving a child’s confidence, brainpower and long-term health

As health care costs continue to rise and our nation becomes increasingly more unhealthy, employers will be changing some of the ways that they hire new personnel. Many companies will start looking for individuals who not only fit all the requirements of the job, but also maintain a healthy lifestyle and have done so for many years. Individuals who smoke, binge drink, and fail to eat properly will soon have these things counted against them when competing for a job in this economy. As we move towards a universal health care plan for all, the cost to employers and employees is going to increase … [Read more...] about Binge drinking in college may pose serious health risks later in life

  Regular exercise may counteract some of the brain-damaging effects of drinking alcohol, early results from a new study suggest. In the study, heavy drinking was linked with damage to the brain's white matter, but only among those who didn't exercise very much. For those who exercised regularly, there was no link between heavy drinking and white-matter damage. White matter forms "cables" in the brain that allow different areas to communicate. Because of the damage to drinkers' brains in the study, "white matter is not moving messages between areas of the brain as efficiently as … [Read more...] about How Exercise May Offset Some of Alcohol’s Damage?

We often spend countless hours at our jobs, some of us standing, some of us sitting for 7 to 10 hours per day. If you take the bare minimum of 7 hours of sitting per day and multiply it for the year, it equates to about 2, 520 hours that you are sitting in a day's time. This is a significant amount of time that we are inactive throughout our entire life. It is no wonder that as Americans, our obesity numbers continue to rise because of lack of activity and high stress levels. Several products have entered the marketplace to help combat our exponentially increasing health care costs. There are … [Read more...] about Sit Up Straight. Your Back Thanks You.

  The car breaks down, you can’t stop worrying about the upcoming licensing exam and your hips appear to be spreading from east to west as if it’s their manifest destiny. Does all this anxiety make you want to eat? If so, you may have a problem with emotional eating. People with this condition tend to eat when they are stressed or in another state of emotional turmoil. Anger, boredom, depression, loneliness and plain old-fashioned sadness all can trigger bouts of emotional eating. If you have a tendency toward emotional eating, you may find yourself reaching for so-called “comfort … [Read more...] about Do you overeat when your stressed?

People who take high doses of popular cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may be more likely to develop kidney problems, a new study suggests. A recent article by Denise Mann covers how statins can cause more harm than good. Specifically, those participants who took higher doses of statins were 34 percent more likely to be hospitalized for acute kidney injury during the first 120 days of treatment, compared to their counterparts who were taking lower doses. This risk remained elevated two years after starting treatment. The findings appeared online March 19 in the journal BMJ. Statins … [Read more...] about High Dose Statins linked to Acute Kidney Damage

We all know that sugary drinks are bad for us, yet as a society we consume them anyways because we think that it will never happen to us. In this article by My Health News Daily shows that there is a direct correlation between sugary drinks, poor nutrition and the number of deaths by Type 2 Diabetes. Most individuals do not take a proactive approach to their health and wellness until something drastic happens like a heart attack or DUI. Consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages may contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, mainly due to Type 2 diabetes, a … [Read more...] about Sugary drinks linked to 180,000 deaths worldwide