Lifestyle, food and health articles
Let’s begin by defining the key term of this post, telehealth, which is the use of communication technologies to provide health care from a distance. And by defining the secondary term, Zoom, which is a video-conferencing software app that has become wildly popular in our …
Way back in 2010, the American Heart Association created what it called “Life’s Simple 7” which was (and still is) seven risk factors people can improve through lifestyle changes to help attain better cardiovascular health. These seven factors were (and still are) physical activity, consumption …
“…to sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub…” While Hamlet was comparing sleep to death in his famous soliloquy, many interpret this line to mean how difficult it sometimes can be to get a good night’s sleep, complete with sweet dreams. We’ve all experienced …
For the past several years, the term “hangry” (a combination of hungry and angry) has been all the rage on social media and commercials. And while hangry is a contrived term, there is a reason for it being coined. In case you have not noticed, …
Generally speaking, when it comes to cooking oils, there are two types; good and bad. “Good” oils are high in healthy mono and polyunsaturated fats, while “bad “oils are high in saturated fat and trans fatty acids. Let us look at each type in turn, …
Way back in 1931, Ethel Merman made the song, “Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries” very popular by singing it in the Broadway Revue, Scandals of 1931. Since then, it has been covered by artists such as Doris Day, Judy Garland, and Johnny Mathis. …
In case you don’t know, yo-yo dieting is the practice of losing weight and then putting it back on again (and sometimes more than you lost) then starting the process over again. This process usually occurs gradually, over time as we lose our focus and …
Upwards of 80 percent of American adults and adolescents do not engage in enough aerobic physical activity to meet minimum government recommended guidelines. Healthy habits, like any habit, begin at a young age. Children model the behavior of the adults in their lives and if …
You are not walking enough…probably. You are also probably not walking fast or often enough. Research consistently reveals that most American adults do not get enough aerobic activity, which includes walking, and that same research reveals numerous health benefits that are derived from regular walking …
Hundreds of years ago, purple-colored clothing was tough to come by. The dye used on fabric came from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon) and was acquired from either Mediterranean snails or mollusks (wait, is a snail a mollusk?). Thousands of these poor …