Archive for July, 2008
Smiling Face, a Saving Grace: How a Positive Attitude May Wind Up Saving Your Life
“If everything you do is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.” Those were the words spoken by Jerry Seinfeld to his good friend George Costanza, after George woefully told Jerry that every decision he’d made in his life had turned out wrong. To correct this trend, George and Jerry thought that perhaps [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2008 under Heart Health, Positive Thinking.
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Among Young Adults, No Middle Ground- Study: Even Moderately High BP Readings Increases Risk
You normally don’t associate hypertension with men and women in their early 20s. After all, hypertension is more often diagnosed, shall we say, in the winter of life (Age 40 and upward) as opposed to the spring (i.e. early 20s). This being the case, moderately high blood pressure readings among young adults may not seem [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2008 under High Blood Pressure.
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Fighting Shrinkage: Exercise Keeps Brain from Shrinking, Slows Alzheimer’s
There is always news coming out of the health world regarding advances in our knowledge of diseases and what can be done to prevent them. Here’s the latest news that is really no news at all in terms of our knowledge of how good it is for our health. But to this point, we didn’t [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2008 under Alzheimer's Disease, Exercise.
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Flip-Flop Flub: Your Choice of Footwear and Foot, Joint Pain
If you’ve been even somewhat attuned to political news in the past year, you’ve no doubt heard the word “flip-flop” with some regularity. But pols aren’t using the word to refer to their foot attire. No, they’re using the word to refer to their political adversaries’ modifying views on taxes, foreign policy, immigration and abortion. [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2008 under foot pain, joint pain.
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More Broccoli, Please: An Extra Helping or Two May Prevent Prostate Cancer, Study Finds
A few months ago, I wrote about broccoli and why those who never liked the cruciferious veggie when they were young might want to give it another try now that they’re older and wiser (see article entitled, “Broccolicious!”). If you’re now eating more broccoli than you ever were – and I hope you are – [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2008 under Prostate Cancer.
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Watermelon: The New Viagra?
Everyone enjoys a nice cold slice of watermelon during the summer months of the year for picnics and barbeques but what you may not know is watermelons contain similar ingredients to Viagra. Recently, scientists from the Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center in College Station have found that watermelon can be used as a [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2008 under erectile dysfunction.
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Low HDL Cholesterol Levels: A Risk Factor for Dementia, Study Shows
In the medical and health world today we are always so focused on how to eliminate and decrease the levels of bad cholesterol that the good cholesterol levels are often not even acknowledged. A study was recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association stating that if you are currently middle aged and [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2008 under cholesterol.
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