It’s that time of year, between Thanksgiving and New Years that our sleep requirements are put to the test. Fatigue is at epidemic levels and more than sixty percent of Americans are experiencing sleep deprivation. The number of airport traffic controllers who in the past year have made the news for falling asleep on the [...]

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How’s everyone after a hectic day of post-Thanksgiving victories at the mall or Walmart? I’m hoping for all of your sakes you weren’t faced with pepper spray and overly zealous shoppers with eating withdrawals determined to beat you out of the latest ‘deal’ on only three 50 inch tv’s available for every 1,000 customers. Ridiculous [...]

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This is a great video. You’ve got to watch it if carving a turkey has ever been for you an experience that is daunting and one where you never quite know exactly what you are doing. This fellow, Gordon Drysdale from The Food Network, makes it an artful task you just might want to embrace [...]

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“Qualitative impairments of social communication and interaction, along with restricted and repetitive activities and interests.” According to some, that’s autism. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] define autism as one of a group of disorders known as autism spectrum disorders [ASDs]. No matter what it is called, labeled or described, the condition can [...]

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Seventeen million lives are lost each year to stroke, heart attack and cardiovascular disease. Triggered by high blood pressure, the condition of hypertension until now has been thought to stay under control, in part, with a reduction in salt consumption. Now, a series of studies challenge that premise and they have some proponents of the [...]

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Health goes beyond our personal wellbeing. Stress comes at us externally as much and sometimes more than internally. How would you have ever guessed thirty or forty years ago that by year 2011 you could be tracked anywhere and your President of these United States could bust in at a moments notice and give you [...]

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OCTOBER is BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH! Help all you can! Sixty-five million people age 20 or older have prediabetes. In 2007 it was 57 million. By 2050 (that’s only 39 years from now) the CDC estimates the trend of one in nine adults who currently have diabetes will jump to one in three. The old [...]

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OCTOBER is BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH! Help all you can! Two weeks ago I wrote on the “number one economic challenge for European health care.” It was about a study on the brain and the myriad disorders that are coming into play around the world. This past Saturday I was listening to a lecture by [...]

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OCTOBER is BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH! BE AWARE Breast cancer took a turn in thinking back in 2009. This paradigm shift came from Dr. Mina Bissell of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.¹  Her message first came out in a paper handed to a well established scientist with whom she worked who promptly put it into [...]

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Reuters reported this today… A study by the European Brain Council (EBC) said the bill for disorders such as depression, anxiety, insomnia and dementia, will rise as people live longer, making it “the number one economic challenge for European health care.” There are two parts of this to consider. The severe health warning sound telling [...]

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