Photo: Hemera With nearly 60 percent of Americans overweight, the pursuit of weight loss has become a national way of life. All told, Americans spend $40 billion a year on weight loss regimens
Call Him Joe
February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Nikolay Mamluke His real name is unimportant.
Shopping Addiction
February 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Shop ‘til you drop? Many people have taken that mantra to the max! Research related to us by the Department of Health Science at Indiana University reveals that what used to be considered a funny joke is no laughing matter. The addiction to shopping can be a very real problem for many people
Pomegranate Juice
February 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: MorgueFile When his grandfather passed away from Alzheimer’s disease, Richard Hartman, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Loma Linda University’s School of Science and Technology, wanted to make a difference. “It was devastating to see the effects,” he recalls
Aging Myths Debunked
February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Carme Balcells Myth 1: Middle-age spread and muscle loss are simply part of growing old. Myth 2: Aerobic capacity drops with age.
Knobby Knuckle Advice
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Fabrizio Turco Myth or fact? Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis. Cracking your knuckles makes you sound like a bowl of Rice Krispies and never goes over well at a wedding
Potato Sack
February 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Alistair Williamson Take a potato and write on it the name of a person who did you wrong. Do this for everyone who has raised your ire and never received your forgiveness
Happiness and Health
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Bill Davenport Happiness Helps Health! Lots of new research is confirming this reality. Carnegie Mellon psychology professor Sheldon Cohen and his colleagues (who collaborated in this research with several major medical schools and institutions) have narrowed “happiness” down to these positive traits: liveliness, calm, optimism, and feeling one’s definite purpose in life
From SAD to the Son
January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: MorgueFile “Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:31). I was feeling like a sad country song. I still had my wife, my dog, my truck, my kids, my job, and all those things usually mentioned in melancholy country songs, but I was depressed
Total Healing
January 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Jeff Miller As I came down one of the upper floors of the hospital, my pager sounded. Since faith and spirituality can take me anywhere in the hospital, I have had to join the beeper crowd. One of the surgeons wanted see me right away
