Surviving Cancer - For some time now, researchers who study cancer recurrence and survivability have been suggesting that weight control an...
Purposeful Aging
Something led me to think of the Andy Rooney quote I have mentioned more than once, last on November 2011, . You know the story… Bill O’Rei...
Prevention and Public Health Fund
The Prevention and Public Health Fund which was established through the PPACA - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is in the news to...
How Sitting Matters
Not how you sit but that you sit . I have never missed an opportunity to remind my readers, friends, students, family and faculty of the re...
Debt and Health
I have used the term financial health in past blog posts. I am not sure how I defined it then. I think of it today in my reaction to studen...
Age as Health Determinant
I spent about an hour I didn't have looking for statistics to back up the argument I wanted to make today. I didn't really find wha...
Cancer Killers
Because it is finals week (another semester and three courses nearly behind me) and I hardly have time to track down interesting stories, I ...
Odds and Ends
ABA and Self Regulation The American Beverage Association is airing promotional messages in which they highlight efforts to limit sugar cons...
Keep the Breast - Lose the Cookie
I want to put this into context but to be fair, the details are sketchy. I do not know where the actual awards show took place only that ...
The High Price of Whole Foods
I made dinner for a group this week. My goal for the meal was to highlight a nutritious low calorie vegetable - prepared in a way the maint...