Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightement. Have a super weekend!
Happiness: Study Suggests Well-Being, Or Lack Of It, Can Predict Illness and Death
The storyteller Hans Christian Andersen once wrote, “Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.” Now a new British study suggests that enjoying life can actually prevent illness and death.
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The Many Types of Milk: Which Is Best for Cholesterol? - Photo Gallery - EverydayHealth.com
There was a time when buying milk was as simple as opening the front door. But you don't see many milkmen around anymore. Instead, you might find a number of different types of milk at the supermarket, and not all of them come from cows. This can make the dairy aisle pretty confusing for someone worried about cholesterol. All types of cow's milk are important sources of vitamins A, C, D, and calcium, but what about the fat and cholesterol? And what about other types of milk like soy, rice, coconut, or almond milk? Read on to figure out the best types of milk for your cholesterol.
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Carcinogens in the Home | 7 Ways to Cancer-Proof Your Home | Caring.com
You wouldn't feed your family a food that you knew caused cancer. But what if you're spraying a cancer-causing chemical every time you clean your sink? In the past few years, consumer health groups have studied many household products and warned that they contain carcinogens, or ingredients known to cause cancer. Here are the prime products to send packing, along with safer replacements to substitute.
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Milk really does do your body good - Seniors' Health - C-Health
Calcium is a key component of healthy bones and strong bone mass, and it is a factor in the reduction of bone diseases such as osteoporosis, a disease of the skeletal system that leads to bone fractures in the wrist, hip, and spinal bones.
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Ha! Laughing is good for you! - Women's Health - C-Health
Kids get it right, too, according to gelotologists. No, that's not a scholar of gelatin desserts. Gelotology (from the Greek gelos, which means "to laugh") is the study of laughter and its effects on our body and mind. As it turns out, laughter provides health benefits that are nothing to snicker at.
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Diabetes - Brain Health - C-Health
At first, people with diabetic retinopathy will not notice any symptoms. As the disease gets worse, they may notice blurred vision, black spots or flashing lights. Eventually, it can progress to blindness. Everyone with diabetes is at risk for diabetic retinopathy, and the risk increases the longer you've had diabetes.
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Alzheimer's disease | vs. Normal Aging | onmemory.ca
It's important for you to know that many commonly used prescription and over-the-counter medications, as well as naturopathic and alternative therapies, can cause side effects that may affect one's mental abilities. So be sure to discuss medication use with a doctor if you feel that you are seeing abnormal signs.
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12 Foods With Super-Healing Powers | Caring.com
Kiwifruit is often prescribed as part of a dietary regimen to battle cancer and heart disease, and in Chinese medicine it's used to accelerate the healing of wounds and sores.
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The 7 Best Healthy Snacks | LIVESTRONG.COM
If you’re feeling hungry between meals, a smart snack doesn’t have to be as boring as a bag of carrot sticks. Here are seven easy light bites that will please both your taste buds and your waistline.
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Benefit Of Fresh Figs | LIVESTRONG.COM
A ripe, fresh fig -- tender yet chewy and syrupy-sweet -- is a heavenly treat that needs no embellishment. Most of the world's fig crop is dried, because fig season is short -- from late summer to early fall -- and the fruit only lasts about a week after harvesting. Make an effort to experience this especially delicious and nutritious fruit when it's in season.
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Robin is the author of A Parent’s Guide to Raising Money-Smart Kids. From piggy banks to paycheques, this book gives parents the information and skills they need to communicate effectively with their children about important money matters. It will also make parents more aware of their own behavior around money and the type of financial role model they are to their kids currently – and the type of role model they can become.
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Neo40: Is it a miracle supplement? - Seniors' Health - C-Health
Neo40 is a lozenge that contains L-Citrulline, an amino acid derived from protein, vitamin C, beet root and hawthorn, a potent combination that produces nitric oxide. Early in life our bodies manufacture large amounts of nitric oxide (NO). But after age 40 production of NO decreases. This sets the stage for hypertension, kidney dysfunction, diabetes, heart attack or stroke, just to name a few major illnesses. It's called the "miracle molecule" because it helps so many diverse problems.
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Money in your 50s: 8 moves to make - 1 - financial management - MSN Money
People in their 50s are usually in their peak earning years, and more than half no longer have kids at home. They're paying down debt, and their wealth tends to be higher than it was a decade earlier.
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Healthy Aging: 4 Things You Should Do
Everyone knows by now that eating right, exercising, and shunning smoking and other bad habits increases our chances of having a long and healthy life.
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Benefits of nut consumption for people with abdominal obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure
For the first time, scientists report a link between eating nuts and higher levels of serotonin in the bodies of patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS), who are at high risk for heart disease. Serotonin is a substance that helps transmit nerve signals and decreases feelings of hunger, makes people feel happier and improves heart health. It took only one ounce of mixed nuts (raw unpeeled walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts) a day to produce the good effects. The report appears in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research.
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Discovery Health "You Can Avoid Weight Gain When You Quit Smoking"
Although a modest weight gain (5 to 10 pounds) is common, you can take several simple steps to ward off those extra pounds and improve your general health:
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Sleeping Too Little Promotes Weight Gain
Researchers in the U.S. reviewed 18 studies on sleep deprivation — getting less than six hours per night — published over 15 years.
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Aspirin And Cancer: Pill May Treat Types Of Colon Cancer, Study Finds
Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role in the disease.
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