Lifestyle
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Study: Whooping cough vaccination fades in 3 years
ATLANTA - The whooping cough vaccine given to babies and toddlers loses much of its effectiveness after just three years - a lot faster than doctors believed - and that could help explain a recent series of outbrea…
Healthy learning: Pack that backpack right
As you send your child or teen back to school you're double checking that you have gotten everything checked off the list. But did you check the safety of their backpack? According to doctors, between the ages 11-1…
What is poor word discrimination?
My wife has been having trouble hearing for a number of years. She just purchased new hearing aids and she is still saying, "Huh? and what?" I went with her to the audiologist and we were told that she has poor wor…
Taking apples beyond pies, sauces
With the onset of apple season, it's time to start thinking about ways to use up all those bushels you bring home from your picking adventures.
How foods fight cancer
On a weekly basis, we are bombarded with information about the latest, greatest cancer-fighting super food or supplement. While many of the featured items may not do all they're cracked up to, there is some truth t…
The politics of obesity: Part A
Washington, July 21 (2010)/PRNewswire/ - As the Obama Administration sets its sights on overweight Americans, demanding obesity ratings for all citizens by 2014, the Health and Human Services Department announced t…
The WinEconomy, new brands
Despite the not so good vintage of 2010 and the upcoming low yielding vintage of 2011 we still have yet to see any pricing power for wineries. There remains enough wine on the market from previous years that wineri…
SpongeBob in hot water from study of 4-year-olds
CHICAGO - The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-t…
Milestone Announcements September 11, 2011
Savvy budgeting, shopping strategies that will feed your family... and you're wallet
Getting the most for your money when it comes to shopping for healthy food isn't rocket science. There are several savvy tactics to use. The more angles and resources used, the more potential dollars saved. Begin w…
Backpacks and back pain
It is that time of year again! Back to school shopping, crossing guards and school zones only mean one thing. There will be thousands of tiny people walking around a community near you. Right now many kids have gea…
When life throws you a curve - scoliosis
From about the fourth grade on up to 10th grade, most of us can remember having undergone a scoliosis screening at school. It usually consisted of taking time out at the beginning of gym period and having to do a t…
Fat: As an endocrine organ
For decades, scientists, nutritionists and health-care providers have believed that fat cells were just passive blobs that hung out in places we don't want it and did nothing more than store energy. They also belie…
Wine questions, terminology
We frequently get questions from our readers and customers on everything about wine from terms, to the wine-making methods, to individual wines so here are some we have gotten since the last time we addressed them.
Yo-yo dieting: Part B
In my last article I mentioned that it is a fact that our physiology is designed to favor fat storage more than fat loss and that the typical "diet" will allow us to lose weight by reducing calories relative to the…