Category: health
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Appreciation for simple pleasures
My husband Jerry and I were sitting in one of our favorite Mexican restaurants carefully surveying the menu—even though we knew that we would order the same thing we always order at that particular restaurant. All of a sudden, I blurted out, “I think I’m going to cry.” “Why?” Jerry asked, looking puzzled. “Because,” I…
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Bad things happen
If you wondered why I didn’t post anything new on my blog for weeks at the of March and the beginning of April, it’s because sometimes bad things happen to all of us. One sunny morning at the end of March, my dog, Ginger and I were taking our daily walk. All of a sudden,…
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Addicted to sugar?
“Sugar is addictive,” wrote James J. DiNicolantonio and Sean C. Lucan in the December 22, 2014, issue of The New York Times. “And we don’t mean addictive in that way that people talk about delicious foods. We mean addictive, literally, in the same way as drugs….Cravings induced by sugar are comparable to those induced by…
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Exercise keeps you healthy
Scientists at King’s College London and the University of Birmingham in England studied men and women, ages 55 to 79, who bicycle regularly. The men could ride 62 miles in six and a half hours, and the women 37 miles in five and a half hours. They found that, on almost all measures, the bikers’…
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It pays to be optimistic
Optimistic people seem to have healthy hearts. Even after adjusting for all sorts of socioeconomic issues, “people who are the most optimistic do have higher odds of being in ideal cardiovascular health,” says Rosalba Hernandez, lead author of a research study and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She’s not sure…