Encouraging Health

Science & Health Channel Posts

• Gifts For Migraineurs
  'Tis the season and all that happy crappy. If you have migraines or chronic headaches, chances are most of your family does, too. Or perhaps you have a good friend or lover who happens to be a [...]
• Russian Roulette
  Everyday we play Russian roulette with our health and well being. We eat things that we know aren’t good for us, in unhealthy portions. We smoke, drink and have unprotected sex. Always taking a [...]
• Cards For The Depressed
  According to the National Insititute of Menatal Health, one in four adult Americans has a mental illness (including all of the types of depression). This comes to about 57.7 million people. That's [...]
• Thanksgiving Story
  This was probably the worst Thanksgiving I've had in a while.  I emerged from the bed all week only to go to the doctor on Monday, Urgent Care on Wednesday night and the Emergency Room on [...]
• Diabetic Women More Likely to Die After Heart Attack
  Women younger than age 65 with diabetes tend to have worse cardiovascular risk profiles than diabetic men of the same age, leading to higher death rates following a heart attack, research [...]
• How astronauts stay fit, on and off the planet
  A new exercise machine sent to space station functions like a weight machine Astronaut Clay Anderson says space travel is generally physically easy People can be accepted to space program even [...]
• Bush, first lady mark World AIDS Day
  President says program has treated 2 million in disease-ravaged Africa President Bush says his presidential initiative has already met its goal of treating two million people with the deadly AIDS [...]
• Nutritional Label Innuendoes
  In a nutritional whirlpool of claims - low fat! high in fiber! helps prevent disease! - it's hard to know what to believe and what to pass by. Some of these packaging remarks are regulated by the [...]
• Health groups team up for tasty, diabetic-friendly cookbook
  “If you or a loved one has diabetes, you need to eat heart-healthy meals,” says the back cover of a new cookbook for diabetics and those who eat with them. “To stay on track, you need [...]
• Twix and pizza — are these really diet foods?
  Don't judge a food by its glycemic index. A guide to good and bad carbs Here's a riddle: What do a Twix candy bar, a Pizza Hut supreme pizza, and a Betty Crocker chocolate cake have in [...]