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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my eating issues, and I’ve decided that it is really time to start doing something about it. So today was the third day in a row that I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Three days, three meals each. It feels weird. I feel strangely full, and my head […]
Who has time to read it all? Here are highlights of some top health stories so far this week:
"Do Not Resuscitate" Orders Lack Standardization in Hospitals
Methods to identify a patient with a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order are incredibly varied across hospitals, ranging from written documentation practices to the use of color-coded wristbands. According to […]
It’s another theme day here at the Science and Health Channel, and most everyone is posting about the holidays. But not all of us, me included, celebrate holidays, so I wanted to do something else appropriate to the season. To that end, here are 7 tips for staying active and getting your daily exercise even […]
I’ve been up for 2 hours and I just realized that I haven’t had anything to eat or drink yet. This is not unusual, but since I already walked the dogs and have settled in to work for the day, I probably wouldn’t have remembered that I skipped breakfast until my hands started shaking around […]
The year is almost over. Is it time to stock up on your vitamin and mineral supplements? We resolve every year around this time that we’ll take better care of our bodies, and that means better nutrition!
Take advantage of this great discount as you replenish your vitamins and prepare to nourish your body more and […]
Diabetics seem to have more bone fractures than non-diabetics, and one recent study may have found the reason why:
New research raises the possibility that long-term treatment with rosiglitazone, as Avandia is also called, could lead to osteoporosis. The diabetes drug is used to improve response to insulin.
While bones seem solid, they constantly are being broken […]
According to a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, brain scans of anorexic women taken even after a year of maintaining health weight demonstrate different patterns of activity from those of healthy women. The pattern where the differences are found are in an area of the brain believed to be linked to anxiety […]
This is a topic I read about in a recent issue of one of my many magazines, and I can’t find the one: doctors refusing to prescribe birth control and other treatments because it conflicts with their religious beliefs.For religious reasons, I as a patient refuse certain treatments, but I was shocked to learn that […]
Ever since I took the RealAge test, I’ve been getting the sort-of-daily e-mail updates, and a recent one on jumping rope (or jump-roping, if you prefer) really caught my eye. It catapulted me back to those days of jumping rope on the playground with my little friends, the sing-songy rhymes we chanted and the tricks […]
New evidence indicates that suicide is dramatically more common in those who have undergone weight loss surgery such as gastric bypass than in the general population, up to double according to one study.
Nobody knows why bariatric surgery patients appear to be at higher risk for killing themselves. Some research shows a link between obesity and […]
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