Category: Life

Christmas weight gain can persist for months

… It is perhaps no surprise that the festive season can lead to weight gain. According to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) in the United Kingdom, Christmas Day gorging is likely to clock up around 6,000 calories – almost three times the …

Trump ally sparks outrage for wishing for Obama’s death

A Donald Trump ally has ignited widespread outrage after wishing for US President Barack Obama’s death and making racially charged comments about the first lady. Carl Paladino-a businessman who served as a co-chairman of the president-elect’s New York State election campaign-made the incendiary jabs in a year-end feature published on Friday in Artvoice, a weekly newspaper in upstate New York.

6 Easy Ways to Take Better Care of Your Health

“Many people work hard to establish healthy habits at the beginning of the year. But for those with busy schedules and tight budgets, maintaining these habits over time can be a challenge,” says Jill Turner-Mitchael, senior vice president of Sam’s Club, Consumables and Health and Wellness.

Offering a haven for the homeless

… run a kind of soup kitchen. “A lot of the people we’re dealing with have alcohol and drug problems, they have mental health issues – and at the time they’re with us every place is closed. We can’t get them any help. If we had these people for twelve …

Populism, real and phony

… Trump’s Cabinet choices show which way the wind is blowing. Both his pick as budget director and his choice to head Health and Human Services want to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare. His choice as labor secretary is a …

Populism, real and phony

… Trump’s Cabinet choices show which way the wind is blowing. Both his pick as budget director and his choice to head Health and Human Services want to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare. His choice as labor secretary is a …

Olivia Kelsey’s first Christmas at home since 2014

Waking up at the crack of dawn to open presents, eating until you’re stuffed and spending time with loved ones are givens for most Kiwis on Christmas Day. But for nine-year-old Olivia Kelsey, being able to do all these things at home in Te Aroha with her family will be extra special this year.

Celebrate the true spirit of Christmas this season

My first Christmas in the U.S. was electrifying, in a Griswold millions-of-lights-on-the-roof, attic-stairs-hitting-you-in-the-face kind of way. When I arrived in Tennessee in January of 1984, I had just missed Christmas, but the world was at my fingertips, which remained frozen until May–my first year in the warm South.

DIY Facial Masks

… others any way she can. One way she chooses to help is by offering information on the benefits and uses of natural health and healing methods for the well-being of both people and pets. Dee also teaches Aromatherapy, Reflexology and Color/Crystal …

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Knead Some Imagination

A jar of white gooey paste with the label Bavarian Black Death occupies place in the collection of similar jars in home baker Sujit Sumitran’s home. It is a culture of yeast and bacteria, he says, that came from Bavaria during the Black Plague of 1633.

North Coast Rep Heralds New Year with Critically Acclaimed Hit,…

North Coast Repertory Theatre continues its highly successful Season 35 with the San Diego premiere of Marjorie Prime, hailed as “an elegant, thoughtful, quietly unsettling drama” by The New York Times. Written by Jordan Harrison, the play enjoyed triumphant runs in Los Angeles and New York and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for drama and won the 2016 Horton Foote Prize, which honors excellence in American theatre.

Holidays can also rekindle feelings of grief

The Christmas season can pose some challenges for those grieving the loss of a loved one. Lynett Getz, social worker, grief companion, facilitator, counsellor and life celebrant, talks to an audience at Strathcona Centre on Wednesday about strategies to cope.–NEWS PHOTO GILLIAN SLADE If you are grieving the loss of a loved one, this time of year can be particularly difficult, but there are some strategies you can employ to help, an audience was told Wednesday at a workshop at Strathcona Centre.

Yoga’s benefits being researched in many govt funded projects across USA

Various US universities-medical/clinical centers-hospitals are undertaking research projects exploring yoga’s possible help in treatment of various illnesses, according to a database published on US National Institutes of Health website. Funded/administered by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health , National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Cancer Institute, etc – all part of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; cost for some of these projects is listed at over half-a-million dollars each.

FAO: Horn of Africa Braces for Another Hunger Season [video]

Growing numbers of refugees in East Africa, meanwhile, are expected to place even more burden on already strained food and nutrition security. Currently, close to 12 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are in need of food assistance, as families in the region face limited access to food and income, together with rising debt, low cereal and seed stocks, and low milk and meat production.

How to party on – without the hangover

… number from 10 years ago. And while more of us than ever are employing the help of professionals when it comes to our health (a recent report charted a 272 per cent increase in independent nutritionists and dieticians over the past five years), the …

Richland veteran calls for Hepatitis C awareness

Then several years later, after Valimont left Nevada for the Tri-Cities, he got a phone call that stopped him in his tracks. The Las Vegas clinic where he’d gotten the colonoscopy used poor sterilization practices, exposing Valimont and dozens of other patients to Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C can lead to long-term health problems, including liver failure and even death.