Happiness = Healthiness

Research suggests that ‘a happy heart is a healthy heart’. When you are unhappy your body releases a ’stress hormone’ that, when chronically elevated, may contribute to high blood pressure, abdominal obesity and dampened immune function, among other problems.
In the study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, women who reported more positive emotions [...]

Disney World Hotels To Ban Smoking

Good news for health conscious parents who are tired of having to stay in a smoking room because the non smoking rooms are unavailable.
Effective June 1, you will only be able to smoke at designated outdoor areas, while staying at any of Disney’s 22 hotels and timeshares.
They are responding to demand from their guests, the [...]

Soap And Water As Good As Sanitizers To Clean Hands

Cold season is upon us and health officials are now saying that good ole’ soap and water is just as good as those fancy hand sanitizers.

I think they are just trying to get the hand washing message out there now that there are fears of a superbug. Plus most viruses can be prevented [...]

Fruit Juice Linked To Weight Gain In Children

My son still drinks just milk but I always thought that juice was good for them when they get past 2. Recently, I asked our pediatrician when we should introduce juice and he said not until he goes to school. I was surprised because the grocery store is filled with juice [...]

New Evidence That Brain Stem Defects Cause "Crib Death"

In a small study with big implications, researchers found some of the strongest evidence yet that sudden infant death syndrome – a medical and sometimes legal mystery once known as crib death – may be caused by brain stem abnormalities.

The finding “takes the mystery away from SIDS,” said Marian Willinger, a SIDS researcher at [...]

Gaining Weight Between Pregnancies Has Risks

A new study which appears in the September 30 issue of The Lancet finds that a woman who gains even a small amount of weight between pregnancies significantly increases her risk of a poor pregnancy outcome.
Reseachers used the records of more than 150,000 Swedish women who had first and second consecutive births from 1992 through [...]