Natural Papa recently ran a post breaking down the nutritional facts of some of the most popular soda and fruit drinks. Many of us succumb to the bad habit of drinking soda to get a sugar fix, or simply to wake up during a long day at the office. If you are someone who just…
How ’bout a couple of cookies for breakfast, son? No? How ’bout a Twinkie? Oh, you’d rather have some cereal? That’s a great choice – much more nutritious than eating dessert for breakfast! Not so fast, dad. That breakfast cereal could actually have more sugar in it than junk food, according to a new study…
You can collapse into a hammock or bed or couch…or just fall where you are. Wherever you do it, a nap is good for you. Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page…
I woke up this morning and looked in the mirror, only to find that my upper lip is sprouting a moustache. My first thought was “What the . . . ? Who in the heck glued that fuzz below my nose? But then it all comes back to me. Oh yeah, it’s Movember. Moustache season….
Just about everyone has experienced back pain that flares up from bending over to pick up something heavy. For parents of toddlers and younger kids, picking up those hefty little bundles over and over can lead to back trouble. Add to that the fact that parents are always sacrificing for their kids and often don’t…
Most people don’t know how important the liver is. During my recovery from Hepatitis A, B and C I realized the rise in obesity in our country is leading to unhealthy livers, which can cause serious conditions like cirrhosis and hepatitis – and potentially an early death. When you start to see these conditions happening…
It’s not uncommon to hear guys complaining about their wives or girlfriends gossiping, or sharing uncorroborated information about this person or that person. Some people get consumed with these rumors and hearsay, and most people identify women as the most common culprits. But over the years I’ve come to recognize a unique variety of male-focused…
70% of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are given to food animals, often just to promote growth and compensate for the effects of unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in production facilities. This routine use of antibiotics in food animal production presents a serious danger to human health, because it helps create new strains of deadly…
I was going to file this under News You Already Knew, but it didn’t really fit, so I’m gonna put this under the heading of Studies Confirming the Obvious: Today we learn that the results of a new study “suggests” (gotta love how studies can make suggestions) that when people get even just 15 minutes…
Skeletal advice from a chiropractic office in La Jolla, CA. Bone health and overall system health may be more closely related than previously thought, reports are showing us. Many Americans are overweight, unhealthy, and unhappy. But perhaps new research shows that by improving our skeletal health, we can produce healthier lifestyles in general. There are…
Time is running out, my good people. We now have only 7 days left to tell the EPA that we support their new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which could prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths and asthma attacks each year. We need to take action now to make sure that this ruling, which…
