Healthy And Simple

And you thought the Government had forgotten about you with all this stuff about the U.S. economy heading towards the toilet. Today the Feds came out with some groundbreaking recommendations about health. Now, sit down before you read this.
Michael O. Leavitt, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, issued the new guidelines calling […]

It’s taken years longer than it should have but a great injustice has just been put right. For years, millions of Americans were denied health coverage simply because the source of their illness was in the wrong part of their body.
Can you imagine breaking your left arm and going in to see the doctor only […]

If you read something in an article that said “don’t trust the media” and you believed it would you then have to distrust it because you read it in the media and it told you not to trust them? And if you were the person who wrote it wouldn’t you have to distrust yourself? It […]

It’s been a long week hasn’t it with nothing but grim news about financial meltdowns and declarations that things have not been this bad since the Great Depression. Banks seem to be going belly up all around us and no one seems to be able to agree on what to do. No wonder people are […]

Just a couple of days ago we wrote about the growing concerns among health experts about the safety of energy drinks. Well, no sooner had we put down our proverbial pens than a new group of scientists came out with some words of warning about the caffeine-packed beverages.
This latest alert comes from researchers at Johns […]

Lots of people have trouble sleeping. Me, I’m sensitive to light and noise at night so if there is a light on or a party going on next door I find it hard to sleep. I used to live in a house that had a skylight in the bedroom. It was pretty at night to […]

MillerCoors’ plans to start selling Sparks Red, an alcoholic energy drink,  have apparently hit a roadblock. The Attorneys General from 25 states asked the brewing giant to dump the product, calling it a “dangerous drink” because of its 8 percent alcohol content.
But while Sparks Red is being shelved, there are plenty of other non-alcoholic energy […]

When most people think about trying to lose weight – and sooner or later that means pretty much most of us – they tend to think first about changing their diet, eating less fat, fewer calories, or just less food altogether.
But a new study in the Journal of Applied Physiology  says that may not be […]

Now, it’s no secret that I like my pint. I think a glass or two of beer at the end of the day is the perfect way to unwind and relax. So I’m the first to admit that I have a bias towards studies that find drinking alcohol has health benefits. Fortunately, there’s so many […]

I was browsing the web today looking for some interesting items for this column. Wednesday is usually a pretty busy day on health-related websites because there are a lot of new studies coming out in the big journals, Journal of the American Medical Association and New England Journal of Medicine.
Today was no different with studies […]