On Healthy Living

According to an article in the Harvard Mental Health Letter, exercise may be beneficial for people with severe depression. Of course exercise is helpful for everyone, no matter what the health issues, but here are some reasons exercise can be particularly helpful to depressed people:
* enhanced body image
* social support from exercise groups
* distraction from […]

Two stories on Good Morning America this morning really got me riled up. The first had to do with the vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus or HPV. HPV is a sexually transmitted disease that the vast majority of sexually active people contract at some point in their lives.
There are more than 100 varieties of […]

It’s World Diabetes Day, and the focus this year is on foot and leg amputations. The risk of a leg amputation is 15-40 times greater for a person with diabetes, according to a news release. People of Hispanic and African ancestry are 1.5 to 2.5 times more likely to suffer from foot problems and undergo […]

A year ago, I was diagnosed with high cholesterol. I was a tech support agent, who sat behind a computer, a phone, and desk for most of the hours in my week. I also ate a lot of junk food and didn’t get enough exercise, mainly because my job involved too many hours and […]

President Bush yesterday asked Congress for more than $7 billion to prepare the nation for a possible pandemic of avian flu, the deadly strain from birds that has killed 60 of the 120 people it has infected in Asia.
The flu at this time is only spread through contact with infected birds, but it is […]

Today, Nov. 1, is World Vegan Day, designed to shine a spotlight on vegans and, this year, to show that there is no such thing as a “typical” vegan.
To prove that, a website has been opened to allow vegans to post pictures and profiles, which you can view here.
From the look of things, though, […]