Health

“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered: Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway.…

This morning, as I read the Sunday paper, I almost forgot to look at the Parade magazine, which was buried in between the store ads that I try to avoid. I’m glad I sought out the weekly insert today, because it contained the inspirational story of Stephanie Nielson, a mother of four who was severely burned, along…

I’m reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. The book asserts that we worry too much about the past and the future and do not spend enough time in the now. If we dwell too much in the future, we live in fear. If we live too much in the past, we live with…

It’s widely accepted that stress contributes to IBS flare-ups. Can infection and stress in IBS patients also cause memory loss?

When I was in Mexico over the summer, I met with a wellness expert named Charles Wills. He, and his colleague, Mia, showed me some cool ways to de-stress using imagery and deep breathing. Wills offers a wide variety of wellness consulting services, including weight loss. So I wrote an article on Suite 101 about…

I recently watched a documentary called Chernobyl Heart about the young victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident when a nuclear reactor exploded. Although the film was made in 2003, the problems it illustrates remain today. Children who weren’t even alive at the time of the accident are being born with a heart-valve disease, which requires a…

Today, I did some holiday shopping at Target on Peach Street, which during the holidays, is referred to as “Peach Jam.” It had just started snowing when I got to the store and only got worse while I shopped. After I cleaned off my car, I weighed taking the Peach Street route home or taking…

In Cleveland this week, doctors performed the first US face transplant on a woman “with facial damage so severe that she could not eat on her own or breathe without a hole in her windpipe,” according to The New York Times. “Our patient was called names and was humiliated,” Dr. Siemionow said. “Children ran away.”…