Mediterranean Diet Lays Low Fat Low
The Mediterranean Diet works. This research is from the Archives of Internal Medicine: A traditional Mediterranean diet that includes a healthy serving of nuts each day may help reverse a cluster of risk factors for heart disease. Over 1,200 older adults who followed the diet had lower rates of...
Do Less, Do More
Many people believe they must do more and more and more and more. This article argues that there are diminishing returns on this kind of “hamster wheel” idea. In other words, “doing more” doesn’t get you more. In fact, according to this research, when you push through to the...
La Prima
There is something refreshingly square about La Prima coffe. It’s on my standard Saturday shopping trail at the “Strip District” in Pittsburgh. Older Italian men come in and play some card game that only THEY know. They speak Italian. They gesture. There are lots of families with kids who...
The “prevent” defense
You can either prevent fires from happening … or you can just wait until you get a good blaze working, and handle it from there. Most people would assume that it is a better strategy to prevent problems from arising in the first place. However, we have a health...
Screen Burn
It does not matter whether it is TV or Video or Internet or Gaming. Experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health analyzed 173 studies done since 1980 in one of the most comprehensive assessments to date on how media exposure impacts the physical health of children and adolescents....
Health Halo Hides Calories
Let’s say you’re Keebler … and you have an Elf. Furthermore, you have to sell cookies, but the current market is anti-fat. This is an incredible dilemma!! You still have to make it taste good, but it can’t have a smidge of butter in it because you are marketing...
Dairy foods help kids build stronger bones
One of the biggest dietary changes that has taken hold in our culture — over the past 40 years — is that milk has been replaced by sodas as the kids’ drink of choice. Now, according to new research reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, when you eat dairy...
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!! There are so many wonderful things about this day, and I just want to wish everyone the warmest of wishes. And today, of all days, we will most likely be feasting on Turkey. So, let’s look at the nutritional properties of this bird that Ben Franklin...
The Original George Dubya
Before Thanksgiving was a national holiday, it had to be assigned as one, each year, by an act of congress. Can you imagine? While this may seem like a Parlimentary Pain in the Pantaloons (and I’m certain it was), one good aspect about it was that each President —...
Congress Gives Thanksgiving Official Stamp
There was a lot to be grateful for, in 1782. With the help of France (who loved us because they hated England … the enemy of my enemy is my friend), we won. We beat the unbeatable nation and stood isolated by oceans and united in our determination to...
First Pilgrim Proclamation of Thanksgiving
On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts met to decide how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. That proclamation...
Thanksgiving Week starts with “Mary Had A Little Lamb”
Throughout Thanksgiving week, we will be talking about our traditions, trivia, and even turkey nutrition. You may not know this, but had it not been for the author of the poem “Mary had a little lamb”, we may not have Thanksgiving at all!! This person essentially pestered the President...