Stuck In A Chicago Suburb!
Ugh. Being stuck in the house all day, day after day, week after week, is just not healthy! Especially when the weather looks so nice outside! A nice surprise was that as everything started turning green and the lawn care company came to maintain our lawn, slowly tulips began peeking their way out of the garden bed and have bloomed! When you buy a house in the middle of winter that is covered in inches of snow, you have absolutely NO IDEA what you are getting yard-wise. We have some very, very pretty trees - some flowering, tulips in several flower beds, bushes, but for some rea...
Source: bipolar.and.me - May 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
Ask the Nutritionist: Calcium Supplements, Yes, No, WTF?
Got questions about healthy eating and nutrition?
Well, today starts a new feature at Cranky Fitness: Ask the Nutritionist!
It could also rightfully be called "Ask the Dietitian," since both the contributors are RD's. I almost did call it that, but then decided to play it safe in case either of these two knowledgeable and articulate experts figures out what a silly blog this is and decides to bail. What if I need to find someone new and have to cast a wider net?
No certification, but pretty darn sensible!
Plus, half the time I spell it "Dietitian" and the other half "Dietician" and that was driving me...
Source: Cranky Fitness - May 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Healing Leaky Livers
By David Spero
It may surprise you to know that, for many people, Type 2 diabetes is primarily a liver disease. The pancreas damage comes later. Is there anything we can do to heal a diabetic liver?
Liver issues in diabetes are complicated. An article in the journal Clinical Diabetes explained that diabetes can cause liver disease; liver disease can cause diabetes; or both can arise together from other causes. Whichever comes first, the sick liver may produce way too much glucose, enough to overwhelm the body's insulin.
Why would a liver start pumping out unneeded glucose? Unhealthy livers tend to have a lot of fat in the...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - April 17, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: David Spero Source Type: blogs
9 Illuminating Lessons on Creativity
Creativity has a kind of ethereal, ephemeral quality. It’s the muse that comes and goes as she pleases. It’s the breakthrough you can’t explain. It’s the aha! moment you worry won’t happen again.
But creativity, while magical in many ways, is concrete practice. It’s a garden that needs nourishing, planting and plucking. It’s the muse that sits at her desk at 9 a.m.
So how do we cultivate creativity? What does it really look like? We asked several creativity coaches and artists to share what they’ve learned about creativity throughout the years.
1. Creativity is about showing up.
All of the individ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Andrea art Artists Breakthrough Concrete Practice Creative Process Creativity Coach Curiosity Desk Doorway Ephemeral Quality Fairy Dust He Source Type: blogs
What’s in Cigarette Smoke, Anyway?
Stanford University professor Dr. Robert Proctor looked through tons of public documents to find out what tobacco companies put in cigarettes. He found some unusual ingredients, like:
Urea, a compound found in urine
Diammonium phosphate, used to make fertilizer
Levulinic acid, used in cleaning solvents
Ammonia
Formaldehyde
Chocolate (not the Hershey bar kind, the bitter baking kind)
He found secretions from the anal gland of the civet cat as well as the Siberian beaver—ewwwwww!
These are just a few of more than 158 additives some cigarette manufacturers roll up in cigarettes.
What Makes Smoking Cigarettes so Addict...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - February 19, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sara Bellum Source Type: blogs
Progress report
It's now been three and a half years since I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and began my quest to cure myself. Although I have not achieved the dramatic recovery I was hoping for my condition appears to be generally stable and this can be considered an acheivement given that the tendency for CKD patients is to gradually lose kidney function until replacement or death becomes necessary. Here are my findings and tips to date so that others may benefit from them (none of which should be construed as medical advice!):
Comments on this blogThanks to all the people who've taken the time to comment on th...
Source: All Kidney News - June 26, 2012 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
