Health Issues

We all know how bad the obesity problem is but I found this article on MSNBC that is saying that the growth is people more than 100 pounds over - the Hyper Obese - is growing at an alarming rate. People who are 100 pounds or more over are the fastest-growing group of over people in the United States, researchers reported on Monday. They found the proportion of the severely obese was 50 percent higher in 2005 than it had been in 2000 — a startling rate of growth. “The proportion of people … [Read more...] about Fast rise in hyper obesity in the US

My family is a wealth of content for this blog. This week my 7 year old daughter has been constipated. We are always a little concerned about this because no one else in the house suffers from constipation and you really hate to see your kids suffering from anything. Usually for the first couple of days after the first day that my daughter is constipated we will just make jokes about poo, with kids there is always joking about poo so it is fine but after a while we will start laying Taylor on … [Read more...] about What to do about constipation

I was wondering how long it would take for something shocking to happen besides the images of childhood obesity. The Boston Globe is running a story about a $250,000 billboard campaign designed at getting parents to start acting in their kids interest in fighting the fat. The campaign also will include television spots and print advertisements. In addition to the campaign, the foundation has handed out more than $1 million in grants to schools, community centers, and social service groups for … [Read more...] about Shocking parents to help their fat kids

We have all heard about the great effects of green and black teas and their effect on people with heart problems lately but here is something that I had heard nothing about until today. Reauters is reporting a new study that shows that taking milk in your tea will significantly reduce the benefits of drinking the tea as per  Functional Medicine Associates doctors. Drinking tea can reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke but only if milk is not added to the brew, German scientists said on … [Read more...] about Tea Milk and heart disease

The evidence against Teflon frying pans is really starting to stack up. I was thinking about this today as we threw out our last teflon frying pan because the Teflon was coming off of it. Steelworkers condemn Teflon The United Steelworkers (USW) is condemning DuPont for contaminating employees around the country with some of the highest levels of the Teflon chemical called PFOA, while denying workers information on potential health effects. The union says that DuPont is refusing to release … [Read more...] about Dangers of Teflon

Today being Halloween and with two little kids I thought I would just drop a bunch of links to health news for you to check out at your leisure. A new sex study was released which found nothing new as far as I see although others may believe that it is more interesting than I think (I have no idea why I don't write more about sex issues on this blog...should I?) Here in Canada Kentucky Fried Chicken has announced that it will be cutting trans fats from their chicken. To bad that they are two … [Read more...] about Link roundup

Sleep is a big problem for a lot of people. I just ran across a story from last week that points out that many people are having trouble sleeping and are using alternative medicine, herbs, in order to fall asleep. The big story is supposed to be the use of herbs but the real story here is that people are getting insomnia on a much more regular basis then they were 20 or 30 years ago. The reasons for insomnia and most common sleep disorders can be narrowed down to a few causes. If you would … [Read more...] about You are now not feeling sleepy

My wife suffered mild postpartum depression just after our first girl was born and so when we started to try again for our second she was as you could imagine very nervous about it. No matter what Tom Cruise and others say anyone that is close to someone suffering from the baby blues know exactly how bad and how overwhelmingly sad this problem is for the woman that is feeling no love for their new born child and does not know why and is so incredibly frustrated by it. Two widely used … [Read more...] about PostPartum depression cures