Forget About Your New Year's Resolutions. Just Put Your Vices To Good Use
It’s your vice. Your Achilles' heel. Your thing. But it’s a thing you can’t -- you won’t -- give up, even if resolution season is here. Hey, we’re not here to judge.
In fact, we have some ways to make you feel pretty good while you might be feeling a tiny bit bad. Here are ways to turn your vices into something that's productive and helps support important causes.
If You’re Always Jonesing For A Cup Of Joe…
Sniff Out Some Beans That Support Needy Communities
You probably don’t stand a chance against the snooze button without a cup of coffee.
So if you must indulge (and yeah, we know -- it's a mu...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Peppermint Tricks Us Into Feeling (Deliciously) Cold
We have the chemical menthol to thank for the wonderful mouth-feel of peppermint. Scientists now know that menthol fools the brain by activating receptors involved with sensing cold.» E-Mail This (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - December 19, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maanvi Singh Source Type: news
A Nutrition Pioneer
I got a great magazine in the mail last week. It’s a TIME special edition about all my heroes in science. Sir Isaac Newton, Einstein, Pasteur…
I read a little further and I was happy to see Linus Pauling. I thought, “Great! They recognized what a pioneer he was…”
I was excited because Pauling is someone who’s close to home for me. He was a scientist who then became a nutritionist, and he was a contrarian. Someone who said to mainstream doctors, “You guys have missed the boat.”
But TIME didn’t say that about him. Instead, they chose to portray him as someone who went off the deep end. They wrote, “T...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - December 18, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Anti-Aging Heart Health Nutrition Cancer heart attack telomeres vitamin C vitamins Source Type: news
Scents Of The Season Speak Directly To Our Emotions
Peppermint, evergreen, latkes on the griddle — all are signature smells of Christmas. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Mandy Aftel, author of Fragrant, about why we react so strongly to scents.» E-Mail This (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - December 13, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sugar-free holiday smoothies to power your day
Enjoy the festive flavors of pumpkin pie and peppermint mocha without blowing your diet; food coach Dana James shares recipes and advice (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - December 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
11 Unique Ways to Enjoy the Holidays Without Weight Gain
Even if you love the holidays, you can get stressed thinking about how to avoid gaining weight when you are faced with one food temptation after another. Holiday time is usually a busier time too, and that can make it tough to stick to your exercise regimen. If you want to sparkle with joy this holiday season instead of stressing out about holiday weight gain, here are 11 things you can do.
1. Think 80/20. This simple little rule can change the way you live forever (not just the holidays). Eat healthy and exercise most of the time. Give yourself a 20 percent wiggle room. For example, stay the course all week with clean ea...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Day 5 of my new life after fibroids! – Caroline ’ s Story
I found this site so helpful in the run up to my operation and made a promise that I would add my own experience when the time was right. I had a total abdominal hysterectomy 5 days ago due to a large fibroid and multiple others. Unlike some women, I didn’t have years of agonising over the operation, I saw my Consultant privately in July and was told any other procedure would only bring temporary relief so we made the decision to go straight to a hysterectomy but to leave my ovaries in if they were not diseased. I am 42 years old and have a grown up daughter. Whilst I do not want more children not having the option i...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - November 19, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health fibroids hysterectomy stories total abdominal hysterectomy Source Type: news
Day 5 of my new life after fibroids! – Caroline’s Story
Sourced from The Hysterectomy Association: Hysterectomy Association - Hysterectomy Association - hysterectomy, menopause and hormone replacement therapy (hrt) information and support for women.
I found this site so helpful in the run up to my operation and made a promise that I would add my own experience when the time was right. I had a total abdominal hysterectomy 5 days ago due to a large fibroid and multiple others. Unlike some women, I didn’t have years of agonising over the operation, I saw my Consultant privately in July and was told any other procedure would only bring temporary relief so we made the decision...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - November 19, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Your Stories fibroids total abdominal hysterectomy Source Type: news
Day 5 of my new life after fibroids! – Caroline ’ s Story
I found this site so helpful in the run up to my operation and made a promise that I would add my own experience when the time was right. I had a total abdominal hysterectomy 5 days ago due to a large fibroid and multiple others. Unlike some women, I didn’t have years of agonising over the operation, I saw my Consultant privately in July and was told any other procedure would only bring temporary relief so we made the decision to go straight to a hysterectomy but to leave my ovaries in if they were not diseased. I am 42 years old and have a grown up daughter. Whilst I do not want more children not having the option i...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - November 19, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health fibroids hysterectomy stories total abdominal hysterectomy Source Type: news
13 (Non-Pharmaceutical) Ways to Deal With PTSD
Creative Commons image Apothecary cabinet, courtesy of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Flickr.
On Oct. 28, 2000 I witnessed the murder of my dear friend Wendy, and the shadow of that trauma has shaped my life ever since.
But that's not my whole story, nor do I want it to be. (I can almost hear Wendy out in her Great Beyond singing, "Finally, Sezin. Finally.")
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is like any chronic illness -- it needs managing.
So, each day I wake up and decide how I will find moments of peace, and over the years I've developed an extensive emotional apothecary, none of which involve pharmaceu...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 18, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Efficacy of 'natural' bed bug pesticides compared
The efficacy of nine essential oil-based products and two detergents that are labeled and marketed for bed bug control were evaluated by researchers. When the researchers sprayed the 11 non-synthetic pesticides directly on bed bug nymphs, they found that only two -- EcoRaider (1% geraniol, 1% cedar extract, and 2% sodium lauryl sulfate) and Bed Bug Patrol (0.003% clove oil, 1% peppermint oil, and 1.3% sodium lauryl sulfate) -- killed more than 90 percent of them. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 12, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Does losing your sense of smell predict death risk?
Conclusion
This is an interesting study but it had limitations, including its use of only one short test and only five smells to identify people with anosmia. The diagnosis was not clinically verified and the test was performed in the person's home environment, rather than standardised across all participants in a clinic.
Although researchers tried to control for confounders, it is still possible that measured and unmeasured confounders played a role.
Even if the results of this study were robust, this study did not look at cause of death, so no preventative strategies were identified for people with anosmia.
Being told...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Lifestyle/exercise Source Type: news
People who can no longer smell peppermint, fish, rose or leather 'may have only five years left to live'
A poor sense of smell raises the odds of death more than established medical conditions including cancer, say University of Chicago researchers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Faint evidence for aromatherapy in reducing stress
A Korean study in Maturitas investigated the benefits of inhaling lavender or peppermint scents on levels of cortisol. The authors found that there was a slight benefit, though this may be due to the placebo effect. Reuters (Source: Society for Endocrinology)
Source: Society for Endocrinology - September 26, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
