Health

Yahoo! News – School Takes Aggressive Swipe at Obesity Yeah! A school moving away from junk food to healthy choices!

CNN.com – Delivered?meals gaining popularity – Apr 20, 2004 The idea is extremely appealing. Every morning a cooler with three home cooked meals and a snack are delivered to your doorstep. The entire day’s worth of food fit your diet plan, so as long as you stick to the food in the cooler, which is

I would like to encourage everyone who is able to sign up as a bone marrow donor with The National Marrow Donor Program. Only 30% of people in need of bone marrow find a match within their family. The rest of them rely on people in the donor database. One of my collegues is currently

See my health blog here: https://stormy.blogs.com/livingwell.

Working poor face higher obesity rates The working poor are those that can least afford healthy food. Often they work long hours, have little free time, little access to stores with fresh fruit and little knowledge of how to prepare healthy food. After a long day of work, it’s easier to buy some hamburgers or

… at least for long periods of time, like the amount of time I spend on the computer. The Harvard Alumni magazine has an interesting article on health and exercise, The Deadliest Sin. The article covers all of the regular recommendations: exercise more, eat less, etc, but it really stresses how sedentary our lives have

There’s an article on CNN about a man who swallowed twelve pounds of coins, necklaces and needles over the course of a decade. He had a disease called pica, which comes from the Latin word for magpie. It’s a condition (such as when kids eat dirt), but this man’s was probably linked to a psychiatric

The new diet guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) state that sugar should account for no more than 10% of the calories in a daily diet. The US Sugar Industry wants the Bush administration to pull funding for WHO unless WHO agrees to remove its recommended limits on sugar consumption! Talk about a conflict

It looks like the Bush administration is ceding to the Sugar Industry’s demands. Their comment to the WHO’s proposed guidelines include lots of dubious statements, like there’s no link between junk food and the risk of obesity. You can read the whole response (and Commercial Alert’s response), Secret Document Shows Bush Administration Effort to Stop