SWIMMING LAPS IS GREAT FOR YOUR body but not for your hair. The chlorine used to sanitize pools breaks down the natural sebum (or oil) found on your hair, and without it, your hair becomes drier and lighter and loses…
The Winter Wellness Guide
by Elizabeth Barker IF YOU’RE ANYTHING LIKE US, you’re always looking for new ideas to help you feel your best–especially during the rigors of the winter season. To help you think beyond chicken soup and echinacea, we asked a few…
The Unhealthy Skies
by Robert McGarvey There you are, soaring six miles above the earth, shoe horned into a seat that wouldn’t provide enough legroom for Danny DeVito. You woke up extra early just to get in a workout before your flight, but…
Salad-Bar Savvy
You may think you’re an enlightened eater because you pass up the bacon burger in flavor of a trip to the salad bar) but you’d be surprised at what that choice can cost you in terms of calories, fat and…
Lawn Chemical and Insecticide Fumes Cause Health Problems
Have you ever experienced health problems after smelling lawn chemical or insecticide fumes? If you haven’t, then either you are still healthy and able to process the inhalation of this poison, or perhaps you have never considered that inhaling lawn…
Double Your Training?
A government panel pushes for extra physical activity, but you might already be there. Official advice is a moving target: Every month or so it turns out that this or that is now potentially good for you, or potentially bad…
Persimmon, the Fat-Fighting Fruit
Persimmon may sound like a lovelorn heroine from a Jane Austen novel, but it’s actually far more auspicious than that. According to Israeli researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this tasty fruit packs twice the antioxidants and double the…
Stressed Fat
IF YOUR BOSS is like ours – random mood swings, unprovoked acts of cubicle violence-then there’s a good chance he’s making you fin. A study at the University of California, San Francisco showed that subjects who were chronically subjected to…
Surfing through Life
IF YOU ever wonder whether you’ll be able and willing to pursue an active lifestyle into your later years-enlarged prostate, osteoporosis and muscle atrophy aside-take a look at the documentary Surfing for Life, airing on PBS stations beginning in April…
Fight the Blues
IF YOU’RE MIRED in a sense of hopelessness and with the rate at which serotonin reuptake inhibitors fly off the apothecary’s shelf, there’s a good chance you’ve been through that town-you may want to consider exercise as an alternative to…