Archive for April, 2009
HEALTH TIPS: Death and no seat belts
Health Tip – Audio Version – Death and no seat belts Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Traffic Safety Facts: Occupant Protection (PDF – KB) (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) We know to wear seat belts. At least, many of us do. For the rest, here’s what can happen if you wreck and wind up at [...]
HEALTH TIPS: It’s Labelman!
Health Tip – Audio Version – It’s Labelman! Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Make Your Calories Count (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) He carries a poster that looks like it came off a food can, and his super power is to hand out advice. So, OK, Labelman won’t dazzle you with daring. But unlike [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Safe for kids
Health Tip – Audio Version – Safe for kids Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Injections: How to make them easier for your child (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Kids don’t like shots. Well, none of us do, but kids cry more. We give kids shots anyway, because getting immunized beats getting sick. [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Weight, sickness and death
Health Tip – Audio Version – Weight, sickness and death Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Being overweight is bad for you. It carries a higher risk of diabetes and heart disease, for instance. But will it kill you? That’s where things [...]
HEALTH TIPS: A step back from colon cancer.
Health Tip – Audio Version – A step back from colon cancer. Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Colon and Rectal Cancer (National Cancer Institute) You need medical treatment to beat colon cancer, and that involves doctors and drugs a lot of medical steps. But a new study indicates that patients can take additional steps [...]
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HEALTH TIPS: The spread of middle age spread
Health Tip – Audio Version – The spread of middle age spread Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Physical Activity for Everyone(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Middle age spread it looks like you can run, but you can’t hide. A researcher has found this in a look at the weight and running habits of [...]
HEALTH TIPS: What happens when teens drink
Health Tip – Audio Version – What happens when teens drink? Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Underage Drinking: A Major Public Health Challenge(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) There are those parents who think that, well, teen-agers are going to drink not much can be done about that. But a lot can be [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Programmed for fat
Health Tip – Audio Version – Programmed for fat Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Exercise and Weight Control(The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports) If you become very fat, it’s very hard to become thin. And a researcher at Duke University Medical Center thinks one reason is that muscle cells become programmed to [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Smoking versus thinking
Health Tip – Audio Version – Smoking versus thinking Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Surgeon General’s 2004 Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking on The Human Body(National Center For Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) Smokers may say a cigarette helps them think more clearly. But a researcher has evidence long-term smoking muddies thinking. [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Dinner time
Health Tip – Audio Version – Dinner Time Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Talk Tips(4Parents.gov) There’s something comforting about having the family around the dinner table. Dinner seems to enrich lives. Research finds teens who have dinner five days a week with their parents get better grades, are less likely to try smoking, alcohol [...]