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      Light and Healthy Labor Day Picnic Food Alternatives

      September 3, 2011 /

      Labor Day is the last big Summer holiday and three months of picnics, ice cream, and cold beers have derailed your best dieting efforts.

      End your summer on high note by choosing healthy alternatives to usual fattening picnic fare.

      Short of going vegetarian, there are many less gut busting treats to enjoy with friends and family.

      Replace fattening appetizers and dips with fresh veggies and a handful of nuts.

      And pass on filling desserts by opting for the end of summer’s bounty of fresh and delicious fruits.

      Grilled chicken sandwiches are an easy switch from fatty burgers.

      Find more menu swapping ideas to keep you slim and trim into Fall.

      Nutrition, Wellness

      Pediatricians Turn Away Children Without Vaccinations

      September 3, 2011 /

      Parents failure to immunize their children could lead to conflict with pediatricians.

      On one hand, doctors are there to treat everyone, and turning patients away leaves them still unvaccinated and without care. But an unvaccinated child who is carrying a virus is “literally a walking Typhoid Mary” who puts other children in a waiting room at risk.

      Unvaccinated children who carry a disease infect those infants and smaller children who are too young to be inoculated and are therefore vulnerable to illness.

      Doctors, Health Care Policy, Quality Control

      More Colleges to Ban Smoking on Campus

      August 31, 2011 /

      Grass roots efforts driven by students and faculty have helped colleges to ban smoking.

      The University of Kentucky is one of more than 500 college campuses across the country that have enacted 100% smoke-free or tobacco-free policies as of July 1. Although policy enforcement varies from school to school, most prohibit smoking on all campus grounds, including athletic stadiums, restaurants and parking lots.
      An increasing number of colleges adopted smoke-free or tobacco-free policies in the past few years, according to American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation Project Manager Liz Williams. In the past year alone, 120 campuses were added to the smoke-free list.

      Quality Control, Wellness

      The Japanese are No Longer Number One in Longevity

      August 31, 2011 /

      Japanese people no longer the most long lived, according to an extensive report on Japan’s health in the Lancet.

      Smoking, growing obesity and a rising suicide rate are among some of the factors contributing to Japan’s declining health rating.

      The aging population is ill prepared to deal with geriatric sickness.

      With a median age of 40 years and a declining birth rate the health care system is inadequately funded to take care of all of the needs of it’s citizens.

      In a country where people feel that they are responsible for their own health to benefit the society the answers to Japan’s problem may lie in it’s cultural values.

      Research

      Erectile Dysfunction comes with other Sexual Problems

      August 31, 2011 /

      Men suffering with erectile dysfunction may discover that it comes with a host of other problems which Viagra can’t cure.

      While medications may help some men maintain an erection, “our research suggests there are other common sexual issues that remain largely unaddressed,” said Dr. Darius Paduch, a urologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

      “We must expand the definition of quality of life when it comes to sexual performance,” Paduch said. “For the last few decades, we have focused on penile rigidity, with erection as a synonym of normal sexual function. However, many patients say that problems with ejaculation — like decreased force or volume or decreased sensation of orgasm — are just as critical.”

      A healthy lifestyle including exercise and abstinence for drugs and alcohol will help where pharmaceuticals fail.

      Research, Wellness

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