Mom’s greeting card is unreadable to young people
A plaintive email posted on Yahoo Answers: A questioner says her mother gave her a beautiful Valentine’s Day card with a lovely written message. She…
Month: March 2017
The other athletes on the floor: Cheerleading becomes international sport
Now that 97 percent of cheerleaders are female, it is hard to believe that cheerleading started as an all-male sport. Back in 1898, when cheerleaders were…
St. Patrick’s Day: From local to global in 400 years
Everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, and that means everyone — worldwide. Somehow a local celebration of a revered holy man became a global…
Beet juice: drink up!
Beet juice really does have some health benefits. A 2015 study in the journal Hypertension reported that one cup of beet juice daily lowers blood…
Wellness retreats
A spa and infrared sauna in Bali? Tai-chi, meditation and yoga in Portugal? Whatever takes your fancy, in 2017, there is probably a wellness retreat that…
Staying Well: The balanced workout
The Balanced Workout According to wellandgood.com, high intensity workouts aren’t disappearing, but there is a new focus on good habits, recovery classes,…
Managing type 2 diabetes through lifestyle changes
Changes in lifestyle can help manage type 2 diabetes, while lifting overall health and energy. Type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition; the body…
Risk factors for developing diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes is a condition where the body becomes ineffective at removing sugar (glucose) from the blood stream. About 95 percent cases of diabetes…
The worrying rise of type 2 diabetes in children
Type 2 diabetes, mostly a lifestyle disease, is increasingly being diagnosed in children. In the first decade of this century, the number of children in…
Steak salad makes transition from winter to spring
The old saying to the contrary, it never seems to matter how March begins, it will be unpleasant most of the time anyway. This delightful steak salad…