The cases always capture headlines: Outbreaks put worries on the table, tainted lettuce sickens 19, egg recall sparked by salmonella threat.
I started a new morning boot camp class yesterday, and I wanted to kick it off with a bang for all the people brave enough to partake in my particularly pugnacious physical playground.
What is your chronotype? Your chronotype is your natural preference for certain times of the day. It's the time of the day when you are most productive, full of energy and intellectually stimulated.
Q: I am 74 years old and had cervical cancer surgery and radiation treatments 16 years ago. Since then I have had multiple bouts of bowel obstruction. Is there anything I can do to prevent another one?
There are pros and cons of being an only child. The child certainly gets more parental attention, but there is also the chance of being spoiled.
Q: I am worried that my mother is not drinking enough and will become dehydrated with the summer heat. What are the signs of dehydration?
Q: There was an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease at my daughter's day care. What is this from?
My friend Valerie often gives me fodder for my columns with issues she brings to our workouts.
If you have been doing a specific type of exercise this summer, it may be time to integrate complementary activities into your training program. Although you may not be interested in doing a triathlon, the three activities, running, cycling and swimming, make for excellent cross-training exercises. Cross-training refers to different aerobic activities that provide essentially the same cardiovascular conditioning benefits.
Children very rarely will tell you if they're being bullied at school, and scaring children into secrecy is how bullies control their prey.
Excess salt in the American diet is causing too many deaths, chronic disease, and disability, and costing us billions in health care dollars, yet today Americans get more than ever before and the culprit isn’t necessarily the salt shaker.
Some day, according to recent article in the American Journal of Cardiology, restaurants might offer statin drugs on their menu to counter the effects of high-fat foods.
The reasons to not exercise are plentiful (aches and pains, time constraints, work/family schedules, lack of motivation); but so are the benefits.
Are you having a day where you woke up, threw on your sneakers and ran "15 out and 15 back" before the sun came up?
Q: My neighbor's daughter seemed fine at birth but never learned to talk. She was just diagnosed with Angelman syndrome. What is this? Will her siblings be affected?
I’m not complaining. It’s been a wonderful summer for sitting on the beach sipping a cool beverage, and getting a full dose of natural vitamin D. The problem for those of us who run is that temperatures stubbornly stay in the 90s with humidity at correspondingly high levels, transforming even an easy run into a challenge.
Advice for parents looking to soothe a child's cough, new research on waist size, how to protect yourself against MRSA in the hospital, and more.
Who in the world would ever want to get her breast squashed in some freaky machine? Ever get a mammogram? I hadn’t ... until today. Turns out, it’s not bad at all.
Recent high school graduates are getting ready to go off to college. Some have already left for school. This can be a difficult transition.
Bell's palsy is an acute partial or complete paralysis of the face due to dysfunction of the facial nerve. Although the exact cause is unknown, swelling and inflammation of the facial nerve due to a viral infection is the likely cause.
