Healthy and Simple

Some things just make sense. You don’t need a meteorologist to tell you what the weather is like if you look out the window and see that it’s raining. Your opinion may be anecdotal and unscientific but it’s good enough for me under those circumstances.
In the same way, you know that if you raise the [...]

Now that our amazing grand daughter Emma Danger is in our lives we are discovering new routines and making changes to re-visit old routines too!  She may be only 1 year but she is an opinionated, self-regulated, young lady who absolutely knows what she wants….and it’s “That”!

She loves the word “That” and she has found [...]

Sometimes something seems so obvious you don’t even need to point it out. But not apparently if you are a medical researcher. It seems that nothing is so patently clear that they can’t find some pretext to get research dollars to tell us what we already know.
For instance, a new study in the journal Spine says [...]

So our great friend, and English correspondent, Vicki told me the other day that many of our blog postings are clearly not written with parents in mind because many of the things we talk about or encourage people to do are things that parents just don’t have time for.
And after taking care of baby Emma [...]

Sometimes it feels as if you can’t turn around without bumping into another study that tells you how wonderful exercise is. Most of it is stuff you probably already know – at least it is if you read Health and Simple regularly – but once in a while you come across some fun new benefit [...]

You have to love a news release with an opening line that says: “It seems like a no-brainer, and it is.” Now that’s honesty for you. It’s also very clever and good writing because it instantly gets your attention.
The no-brainer in question is a new study that says if you take the junk food out [...]

So, I was watching TV comedian and political commentator Bill Maher recently and Bill was interviewing Alan Grayson, the Democratic Congressman from the 8th District of Florida.  They were talking about health care. These days there are a lot of politicians, and even ordinary people, on TV shows talking about health care reform. Just the [...]

Schools are supposed to be institutions that feed children’s minds, filling them up with thoughts and reasoning. Instead too many schools seem to be places where children fill up their up bodies with junk and candy and “crap” from vending machines. And that investment in vending machines is undermining the investment in kids brains.
We need [...]

Next time you are at the park or the beach or just walking around your local shopping mall take a look around you at the kids. What do you see? I’m guessing that you’ll see a huge number of kids who are either overweight or downright obese. In some places it may be much harder [...]

Ask most adults what they think about having a shot and chances are their mind is more likely to conjure up images of Jack Daniels or tequila rather than a syringe filled with vaccine.
Or maybe that just says a lot about the adults I tend to hang out with! Either way, vaccinations are way down [...]