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Detroit, MI Detroit residents report more heart disease diagnoses than any other big city in the nation, according to CDC data, and 33% of them are obese. One thing the city’s hearts do have in their favor: A vibrant urban agriculture movement is transforming empty lots into veggie-filled community gardens, increasing access to fresh produce in neighborhoods where it was previously scarce. Fort Wayne, IN Although people in this midsize city in northeast Indiana clearly need to take better care of their cardiovascular health (rates of obesity and heart disease are both sky-high) Fort Wayne has at least one thing going for it, health-wise: According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which tracks various health markers across the country, Fort Wayne is a happy city....
Researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand administered a pill of either vitamin D or a placebo to 322 healthy adults. For a year and a half, the scientists recorded the frequency and duration of participants’ colds. The results? Although the group popping the supplement almost doubled their levels of vitamin D, it didn’t help them kick the common cold. The D group only got 18 fewer colds than the placebo group, a scientifically insignificant amount, say researchers....
Question: Does hypnosis help in attaining weight loss? – James Answer from Dr. Manny AlvarezPersonally, I think that hypnosis could have a positive effect with weight reduction. Many times, people that struggle with weight are influenced by mood, behavior and lack of self control. Hypnosis for weight loss can definitely help in these groups of patients that have those particular characteristics. New Fitness Class ‘Sheds Light’ on Combating Winter Blues Hypnosis is a temporary, altered state of consciousness....
That should have been my first inkling that something was amiss. Why? Oh, only two minor reasons: I don’t like pretzels and I wasn’t hungry. For someone who has devoted half her life to understanding the reasons why people turn to food and binge eating when they’re not hungry, this last teeny fact—lack of hunger and eating anyway—is always a red flag. Usually, when I want to eat and I’m not hungry, I take some time—at least a couple of minutes—to ask myself what I am feeling....
Eighteen years ago, I opened my eyes in the ICU in the most intense pain. “You fell out a window,” my mom said. “You’re lucky to be alive.” I’d suffered a crushed skull, a broken hip, and extensive nerve damage along the entire right side of my body. When I looked in the mirror, my face was paralyzed and drooping on the left side from a traumatic brain injury. During 8 months of physical therapy, I had to relearn how to put one foot in front of the other....
2012 was the hottest year on record, and climatologists watched heat records fall right and left. And while you may have noticed daffodils blooming in February or stayed glued to your TV watching the devastation fueled by Superstorm Sandy, you probably didn’t notice the increasingly polluted air outside your front door. Linda Marsa, investigative journalist and author of the new book Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health—And How We Can Save Ourselves, says that bad air is perhaps the most insidious but underappreciated health problem associated with a warmer world....
“Despite proof that our diet—which is rich in processed foods—takes a toll on our bodies, big food companies are still persuading people to eat more of their unhealthy products,” says Bradley. “So, I’m speaking out, and hoping to change the conversation about food.” Here’s how the food industry is trying to trick you—and how to fight back.
Unlike genetically modified organisms, whose DNA are altered with foreign genes, the DNA of genetically edited organisms tweaks a plant’s own genes. The technology, experts say, could be used to develop healthier, tastier, all around better versions of the fruits we buy every day: bananas with mega amounts of antioxidants, or apples that don’t turn brown after slicing. (A genetically modified version of the latter already exists.) Tooling around with a plant’s genes to give said plant more desirable traits sounds sort of like a souped-up version of the conventional plant breeding farmers have performed since the beginning of time to grow everything from heartier strains of wheat to purple cauliflower....
What’s behind this increase? If you said the economy, you’d be wrong, says Liza Mundy, author of The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family. Or at least that’s not the only reason. A number of factors—such as women now earning 60 percent of college degrees and men being more willing to make sacrifices for the sake of women’s careers—play a part in bumping up women’s paychecks....
F = Face Drooping. During a stroke, one side of the face often sags or feels numb. Ask the person to smile, Saver suggests. If the smile is lopsided or uneven, that’s evidence of a stroke.A = Arm Weakness. Is one arm weak or numb? Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward? That’s another warning sign.S = Speech Difficulty. If speech is slurred or nonsensical, that’s a red flag, Saver explains....
“Nobody’s binging on spinach or broccoli,” says Ashley Gearhardt, PhD, assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Michigan. As co-creator of Yale University’s Food Addiction Scale, she’s contributing to a growing body of research that puts “food”—or the processed chemicals that pass for food these days—in the same category as drugs of abuse. How can a fun-sized chocolate bar turn you into an addict? Blame sugar, salt, and fat....
“The 2009 H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, is the predominant virus this season,” says Keri Peterson, MD, of the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association. And while many workers place their jobs as a top priority, they should not do so at the expense of their health—and the health of their colleagues. “As always, vaccination is the first step in flu prevention, but it’s also important for everyone to help prevent the spread of the flu virus....
Eye Warming Sitting in a chair, rub your hands together to create heat in your palms. 2. Close your eyes and cup your palms over your eyes. This blocks out light and allows your eyes to absorb the heat from your hands. 3. Hold for 10 deep breaths, in and out, and repeat as necessary. Eye-ercize Stay in your chair, and don’t move your head. 2. Look up to the ceiling, then look to your right, then down to the floor, then over to the left, and back up to the ceiling....
Stroke survivors who completed an eight-week course of twice-weekly yoga classes showed an impressive 15% increase on balance scores, according to study author Arlene Schmid, PhD, a rehabilitation research scientist at the Roudebush VA Medical Center and assistant professor at Indiana University. They were also more confident in their ability to perform everyday tasks, too. How does yoga do this? “Yoga improves balance because it’s complex—it includes the mind and the body, and helps to coordinate movements,” says Schmid....
