Air Pollution Increases Diabetes When we think of diabetes we often think of lifestyle issues like obesity and poor nutrition. There seem to be little conversation about how air pollution increases diabetes… until now. Outdoor air pollution – already a major cause of disease and death globally – contributed to 3.2 million new cases of […]
Comcast Reinvents Health Benefits It’s wonderful that Comcast has helped improve health benefits but the story falls short. Making sick care less expensive to employees is not the same as improving their health. It is certainly a good thing that Comcast and its employees pay less for sick care services. It will be an even
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Stressed Students College has always been stressful. Stressed students are moving further into adulthood and away from the lives they knew while balancing demanding coursework and new communities. This is a situation ripe for trouble. Germany’s University of Heidelberg even had a “student jail” (Studentenkarzer) for wayward students until 1914. But today’s stress is worse.
A Healthy Breakfast Probably the single most-voiced health advice in the Perry household is “eat a good breakfast.” Whether the kids are away at college or Dad is on a business trip or Mom is overloaded (again), someone in the family finds time to remind them to eat a healthy breakfast. Sometimes it’s just so
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Timing may not be everything but a recent small study shows that timing when you eat may have an impact. While no one at HealthCare Too is a devotee of fasting, we do appreciate that eating just before bedtime is a bad idea. Putting dinner well before bedtime and delaying breakfast (not skipping) really don’t
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Ancient Herb Switches Off Hunger This is an example where something good, recognizing a herbal benefit, may well go bad. Researchers have found that the thunder god vine (or Tripterygium wilfordii) contains a compound, celastrol, that can suppress appetite. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has used this plant for centuries to treat a variety of ailments. Our
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Middle-class incomes have shrunk As Americans across the Nation celebrate Labor Day, it is worth noting that middle-class incomes have shrunk since 1999 in all but two states (South Dakota & Vermont). David Chase and others have pointed out the continued erosion of take-home pay as healthcare costs grow as part of the Gross Domestic
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