Health Column
People in a rush often skip breakfast and then later rationalize that it's okay, telling themselves they didn't need those calories anyway.
20:55 Apr 5, 2006
When one of the first words to come out of your daughter's mouth is 'chips' (and she's too young to know who Erik Estrada is), you begin to wonder what kind of eating habits lay ahead for her.
07:10 Mar 22, 2006
Back in the bad old hunter-gatherer days, the human species got a lot of use out of the hormone cortisol. That's the stress hormone activated during the fight-or-flight response...
06:59 Mar 16, 2006
You sit up to the table, mouth watering, and she serves you a plate with a heaping pile of white sugar, another of pile bleached flour, a scoop of lard and a meatball between a couple chunks of diced tomato.
07:45 Mar 7, 2006
As more long-term data become available about the generally positive outcomes for bariatric surgeries, more consumers are opting for these procedures than for any other non-cosmetic elective surgery.
07:00 Feb 21, 2006
For some people, that conjures up images of a gritty dietary supplement drinks they have to gag down. But a daily diet rich in food-based fiber sources could help them avoid that icky beverage...
08:55 Feb 7, 2006
Today's anti-carb diet hype is really giving carbohydrates a bad name when, actually, the right type of carbs form the backbone of good nutrition.
21:25 Jan 31, 2006
The media blitz about the American obesity crisis is putting new attention on the nation's dietary problems, but it isn't necessarily providing the re-education we need...
06:32 Jan 26, 2006
You need to think of fat as a valuable nutrient that is not only important, but actually essential in your diet.
06:43 Jan 24, 2006
The fitness impact of dog walking, 'has been ignawed by researchers. Hence, this report cuts to the bone and unleashes an incisive public health argument for increasing dog walking.'
07:19 Jan 10, 2006
If only we could just not want to eat. Wouldn't that make staying healthy so much easier? We'd eat what we needed because it was the right thing to do for our health...
05:48 Jan 5, 2006
Do you know one of those people who never seems to eat, no breakfast, no lunch, little snacking throughout the day. Maybe you are one of these people, always declining the lunch invitation...
06:30 Dec 27, 2005
You've got all the holiday leftovers in the fridge and the last of the cookies and candies and other goodies that everyone will bring in to work and leave lying tantalizingly around.
12:35 Dec 20, 2005
But a few days before Thanksgiving, he called in sick to his new job. The next day, feeling worse, he took himself to the hospital. Within two days, he was dead. Diabetes. Previously undiagnosed.
06:31 Dec 14, 2005
Tall and short, dark and light, freckled and tanned, we come in myriad packages with myriad features, most of them determined by our genetics before we ever draw breath.
13:06 Dec 7, 2005
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