Centenarian Athlete: You’re Never Too Old To Exercise…Or Break A World Record!

Excuses for not exercising are like noses…everybody has one.  Well, not Ruth Frith.  This sprightly, great grandmother from Brisbane, Australia broke a shot put world record at the World Masters Games, which took place in Sydney, Australia recently.  According to the site, the primary difference between the World Masters Games and the Olympic Games is [...]

Cautious Optimism For Illicit Drug Vaccines

Preliminary results from two recent studies suggest that vaccines may be an effective treatment protocol for cocaine and nicotine addicts.  The cocaine study was published in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry and is the first to successfully show the effectiveness of a vaccine for illicit drug use.  Essentially, the vaccine works by [...]

Think Twice Before You Undergo This Cellulite Treatment

To most of us, going to the spa conjures up relaxing images of tranquility and zenned out facilities.  It’s one of the few places adults go to get pampered and, at least for a small period of time, let all their troubles fade away.  However, things didn’t turn out that way for a 37 year [...]

Sleep Disorder Alzheimer’s Link?

According to various recent studies, sleep deprivation plays a role in the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common form of dementia.  The research centered around a protein named beta-amyloid, which is suspected to be a primary contributor to AD.  Researchers monitored the brains of sleep-deprived mice, and noticed that preventing the mice from [...]

Soft Drink Tax To Fight Obesity

Some of you may have been reading about this for last few months, but some U.S. officials are proposing an excise tax for sugary soft drinks.  Health experts from New York, Yale and Harvard, among others claim current taxes don’t go far enough to curtail abuse of these beverages, which play a key role in [...]

Child Obesity Considered Child Neglect

His name is Alexander Deundray Draper, and he’s 14 years old.  He also weighs 555 pounds.  That’s not a typo.  In addition to the obvious tragedy of being so morbidly obese, the boy’s mother, 49-year-old Jerri Althea Gray, was arrested in Baltimore, MD after fleeing South Carolina for child neglect and failing to appear in [...]

Exercise Your Way to A Better Memory

A recent CNN.com article espouses the well-known link between exercise and maintaining cognitive function.  Other ways to boost your brain that are cited in the piece include multitasking, brain games, puzzles, and DHA (commonly found in fish oil).  That being said, a neuroscientist in the article says that exercise is “two to three times as [...]

When Stress Kills

In central Florida, a man reportedly shot and killed his wife, their 7 year old child and 5 month old infant!  The couple’s 13 year old son was able to escape, but the father apparently shot at him before turning the gun on himself.  As a husband and father who has admittedly seen some stressful [...]

FDA: Avoid This Dangerous Weight Loss Supplement

Source: FDA.gov The FDA has recently released a stern warning to consumers to avoid the popular, but potentially dangerous diet pill, Hydroxycut.  Manufactured by Iovate Health Sciences Inc. of Oakville, Ontario, this supplement has been tied to severe liver damage and one death.  The FDA received 23 reports of health issues ranging from jaundice to serious [...]

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