Lifestyle
What's happening in lifestyle news? For information and details regarding daily lifestyle, see our articles below.
Foods for prostate health
As men age they often experience prostate problems, like getting up several times at night to go to the bathroom. Having to get up at night is a burden that can disturb a restful sleep, for both you and your partne…
Adrenals: The stress and energy gland
Too little attention is paid today to a couple of small glands called the "Adrenals." The adrenals are responsible for a multitude of critical functions in the body and when they are not working up to par, many sys…
Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism risk
CHICAGO - Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children.
The skinny on weight loss: Normal weight obesity
Can you be considered obese if you have a normal body weight? As surprising as that may sound, you can have a normal weight, but actually have so much body fat that you're considered obese ( a high body fat percent…
First step to health
I was sitting down with my husband this weekend and we started talking about all the things we were ready to tackle now that we made it through the holidays. We realized that we had put many things on the back burn…
We honor veterans
It may surprise many people to learn that one out of every four people who die in the U.S. are Veterans. Our country is seeing many who served in World War II and Korean pass away and the number of deaths of Vietna…
Getting started with food and wine
For many of us as we start to enjoy wine it is natural progression to begin experimenting with cooking, while for others the pleasure we derive from preparing great meals evolves into an interest in wine. In either…
New cushion hits market by storm
Are you having problems with skin breakdown from prolonged sitting, or lack of sensation? Do you also have difficulty with trunk control or instability?
Chemical signal in women's tears a turnoff for men
WASHINGTON - If a crying woman's red nose isn't a big enough turnoff to a man, a surprising experiment found another reason: Tears of sadness may temporarily lower his testosterone level.
For Chinese New Year, take a break from takeout
It doesn't take too much effort to do better than takeout.
Thyroid disease on the up-swing
A couple of decades ago, it seemed only overweight women had thyroid disease. Boy has that changed. It is estimated that one in 13 people in the U.S. have thyroid disease and another one in 20 are undiagnosed. In 1…
A retrospective tasting of the 1997 vintage
Over the holidays we had the opportunity to taste six of our favorite wines from the historic 1997 vintage. The importance of going back and tasting these wines is helpful to know how the 2007 vintage which we have…
The Skinny on Weight Loss
The New Year celebration is usually followed by a sense of new beginnings and the chance to once again honestly appraise our lives and to change course in one area or another. Hence the proverbial "New Year's resol…
New Year's resolutions? Brain can sabotage success
WASHINGTON - Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smo…
Get back to health in 2011
Well, it's that time of year again. It's time to have a "mental check in," as I like to call it. Most of us are reassessing the past year and deciding what we need to do to improve our lives with the year to come.