Millions of people enjoy a glass of wine with meals, at social events and more. I know people who say that they switched drinking beer to drinking to wine because wine isn’t as fattening. Wine drinkers range from connoisseurs to savor the aroma, body and can even name which grapes were used and when the
If you are like me, you were surprised and concerned about the recent announcement that the 78-year-old host of Jeopardy was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Trebek, born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada became a television host starting with a Canadian show called Music Hop, in 1963. His career continued to climb, reaching what some
It is well known that eating lots of fruit and vegetables is good for your physical health, but our latest research suggests that it might be good for your mental health too. A study from Australia in 2016 found improvements in psychological well-being after increases in fruit and vegetable consumption. We wanted to know if
AIDS stands for Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome. The disease is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus which is usually passed through sexual contact, but can also be spread via contact with contaminated blood, which is why HIV is largely associated with promiscuous sex, the gay community and drug abuse (sharing of needles). HIV
Syphilis has afflicted heads of state, whose nations have suffered from the consequences of their diminished mental health. King Henry VIII of England and Tsar Ivan IV Vasilievici of Russia (“Ivan the Terrible”) are examples. Careers of internationally influential artists – such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Oscar Wilde and Scott Joplin – ended prematurely due
The small lifestyle choices we make each day add up when it comes to heart health. In a new two-pronged study being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific Session, people who spent less time watching TV and regularly ate an energy-rich breakfast showed significantly less plaque and stiffness in their arteries,
After decades of increasingly complicated insomnia fixes, this one little thing changed everything. For most of my life, I have been unlucky in sleep. Falling into slumber has never been a problem, but if I toss just a little too hard in the wee hours, all bets are off. Once awake, I will lay there
The American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration rule changing criteria for family-planning grant money in ways sought by anti-abortion activists. The new rule, announced last week by the Department of Health and Human Services, would prohibit family planning clinics funded by the federal Title
When I was a kid, it seemed like every kid got the measles at some time. For families with multiple kids, sometimes it would spread through the house like wildfire and then there were families where only one child at a time got sick with the measles. I had two older brothers and younger sister,
Our mental health often feels like a mystery. A cheerful mood can inexplicably give way to sad or scary thoughts. Even though we might try to manage our emotional well-being through things like talk therapy, self-care apps, meditation, and medication, it’s easy to feel like contentment remains just beyond our grasp. Yet scientific research suggests
