Category: Wellness (Page 88 of 116)

Light and Healthy Labor Day Picnic Food Alternatives

September 3, 2011 / Staff

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.

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More Colleges to Ban Smoking on Campus

August 31, 2011 / Staff

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.

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Erectile Dysfunction comes with other Sexual Problems

August 31, 2011 / Staff

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.

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Bird Flu Rebounds Warns U.N. Agency

August 30, 2011 / Staff

The Bird Flu or H5N1 strain is potentially making a resurgence.

The deadly flu is resistant to most recent vaccines and cases in China and Vietnam are causing concern.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday urged increased surveillance and preparation for a potential outbreak of the virus, which it says has infected 565 people since it first appeared in 2003, killing 331 of them.
The virus was eliminated from most of the 63 countries infected at its peak in 2006 after mass poultry culling, but since 2008 it has been expanding geographically in both poultry and wild birds, partly due to migration patterns.

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