You’re an ecosystem — a complicated one. Your cell phone is just one component of it — and an inescapable part of your biology. Fortunately, it’s one you can control. A recent UK survey from 12 separate districts found bacteria on 92 percent of cell phones — and only 82 percent of human hands. Fecal bacteria were found on one sixth of cell phones and human hands. The most feculent cell phones were found in London — 28 percent.
Times are tough. People are out of work and can’t find any, 15 percent of the country often goes to bed hungry, and the euro may crash and upend the world economy. Folks need a break.
“Pills never cured anything!” This was the profound statement that resonated with me after I returned from a wellness seminar last week. Of course I kind of knew that but I never really stood still at this fact because it is so universally ignored
Vitamin — the word itself conjures up healthiness, something vital for life. Without them we can’t live. But can we have too much of them? Yes. Just like we can have too much food
Dr. Matthew Edlund spoke Oct. 18, at Book1Store on Main Street about simple changes we can all make in our daily routines that will add years to our lives and keep us healthier. Dr. Edlund directs the Center for Circadian Medicine and is an internationally recognized expert on rest, biological clocks, performance and sleep. His [...]
Is eating fish the same as eating fish oil? If you believe advertising and the drumbeat of omega 3 supplement makers, you might think so. But the facts are different
June 25, 2009. I was rapidly scanning BBC News when I shouted “No” at the monitor and gasped before recognizing why. Michael Jackson was so young. How could he die? I gasped again when my Webmaster told me CNN Headline News was calling Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal physician at the time of his death, the “rest doctor.” Whatever Michael Jackson was getting before he died, it wasn’t rest…
Brain, your gut is calling. It’s got a lot to say — about, stress, anxiety and your mood. That’s the potential upshot of a recent study published in PNAS by Javier Bravo and company from the University College Cork and nicely described in the Sept. 3 edition of the Economist. The study emphasizes how the innumerable gut bacteria affect behavior
The data from this year’s American Sociological Association Meeting are troubling, though not surprising. Studying more than 10,000 men and women as part of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ’79, weight gain was common among both men and women in the two years after marriage
Funny things happen with media stories. Complicated science suddenly becomes simple, clear and distinct — with implications very different to what the research reveals. Such is the case with a recent article on hypertension. According to the report in BBC News, “Bad Sleep Ups Blood Pressure Risk.” What did the article really show? That in elderly men
