Have you ever heard of “The Honey Principle”. It is a very simple principle that teaches us about being temperate or moderate. The Bible has the following to say about honey: Prov. 24 :13 “My son, eat thou honey, because it is good.” Prov. 25 : 16 “Has thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee.” Prov. 25 : 27 “It is not good to eat much honey” What it means is, although Honey is good, eat only what is sufficient or necessary. It is not good to eat too much. This principle holds true for almost everything regardless of how good, powerful and beneficial it is. Too […]
Do you feel sick or run down every time you work overtime?. You could work in a building that produces what health experts call “sick building syndrome.” May 30, 2006, (The New York Times News Service) Poor indoor air quality or other pollutant and toxin problems can leave workers suffering from such acute health problems as eye, throat and nose irritation, headaches, coughing, dizziness and nausea. And if your home isn’t offering a respite, chances are the environment there contains pollutants or toxins, too. While some cases of sick building syndrome are more serious than others, in many instances relief can be found with better maintenance, getting rid of mold and mildew […]
The amount of time a woman takes before returning to a full-time job after childbirth may affect her child’s mental development. That’s the finding of a report, published in Child Development magazine, that links early full-time maternal employment to slower intellectual development in kids. The report was based on data collected from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care, which involved 900 white non-Hispanic children in 10 cities over three years. Researchers found that children whose mothers worked 30 hours or more per week by the time the children were 9 months old scored lower on school-readiness tests at age three. These […]
The Dream Diet: Losing Weight While You Sleep. Can more sleep really help us control our weight? Three top experts explore the possibilities. Lose weight while you sleep. It sounds like something you’d hear on a late night infomercial — just around the time you are reaching for that bag of cookies because, well, you can’t sleep. But as wild as the idea sounds, substantial medical evidence suggests some fascinating links between sleep and weight. Researchers say that how much you sleep and quite possibility the quality of your sleep may silently orchestrate a symphony of hormonal activity tied to your appetite. “One of the more interesting ideas that has […]
Girls who regularly ate breakfast, particularly one that includes cereal, were slimmer than those who skipped the morning meal, according to a study that tracked nearly 2,400 girls for 10 years. IntelliHealth Online, September 9, 2005 BALTIMORE (AP) — Girls who ate breakfast of any type had a lower average body mass index, a common obesity gauge, than those who said they didn’t. The index was even lower for girls who said they ate cereal for breakfast, according to findings of the study conducted by the Maryland Medical Research Institute with funding from the National Institutes of Health and cereal-maker General Mills. “Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, […]
Women can reduce their risk of early-onset cataracts by making sure they get plenty of vitamin C, new research suggests. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Fri Feb 22, 5:29 PM ET Cataracts occur when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy, and are common among people aged 75 and older. Good nutrition appears to help protect against cataracts, Dr. Allen C. Taylor of Tufts University and colleagues note, but there is little research on the link between two particular types of cataract and nutrition. They report their findings on nutrition and cortical and posterior subcapsular cataracts (PSC) in the March issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In cortical cataracts, […]
By Will Boggs, MD BALTIMORE, Apr 30 (Reuters Health) – High school students who watch wrestling on television may also be more likely to drink, chew tobacco, carry a gun and fight with their dates, according to North Carolina researchers who presented their findings Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Robert DuRant of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem and associates used confidential questionnaires completed by 2,228 high school students to measure the amount of professional wrestling they watched on TV in a 2-week period and compare it with other behaviors, such as alcohol consumption, fighting, illegal drug use […]
Tuesday May 1 11:15 AM ET By Will Boggs, MD BALTIMORE (Reuters Health) – Nearly one quarter of American children younger than age 3 already watch at least 3 hours of television on a typical weekday, according to study findings released here Monday at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies. The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that children younger than age 2 be spared television viewing altogether, and that older children be limited to no more than 1 or 2 hours per day. Since so little was known about TV viewing among very young children, Laura K. Certain and Dr. Robert Kahn from Children’s […]
TV Linked To Kids’ Attention Problems April 5, 2004 CHICAGO (AP) — Researchers have found that every hour preschoolers watch television each day boosts their chances — by about 10 percent — of developing attention deficit problems later in life. The findings back up previous research showing that television can shorten attention spans and support American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations that youngsters under age 2 not watch television. “The truth is there are lots of reasons for children not to watch television. Other studies have shown it to be associated with obesity and aggressiveness” too, said lead author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a researcher at Children’s Hospital and […]
Get a good night’s sleep after piano practice: It may prove crucial to learning new skills such as tickling the ivories. Scientists have long known that adequate sleep is important for forming different types of memories. People can do better on a test with proper rest than by pulling an all-nighter, for example. But learning motor skills involves a different part of the brain, and often a lot more practice, than memorizing facts. Is sleep important for that, too? Very, German scientists report. Scientists at the University of Lubeck taught healthy young students different finger-tapping sequences, and then either let them sleep or kept them awake for eight hours. When […]
A 10-minute nap is better than a half-hour snooze at improving work performance, according to new Australian sleep research. Associate Professor Leon Lack and postgraduate student Amber Tietzel studied the effect of varying nap lengths in the School of Psychology Sleep Laboratory at Flinders University in Adelaide. They conclude that 10 minutes is the most effective nap length for improving performance for up to 3 hours afterward. “We were testing the notion of whether power naps, as they’re known in the United States, are really as effective as they are claimed to be,” Lack told Reuters Health. He explained that participants in the study underwent a series of performance tests […]
Here’s another reason to get the kids to bed early: More sleep may lower their risk of becoming obese. Researchers have found that every additional hour per night a third-grader spends sleeping reduces the child’s chances of being obese in sixth grade by 40 percent. The less sleep they got, the more likely the children were to be obese in sixth grade, no matter what the child’s weight was in third grade, said Dr. Julie Lumeng of the University of Michigan, who led the research. If there was a magic number for the third-graders, it was nine hours, 45 minutes of sleep. Sleeping more than that lowered the risk significantly. […]
Those parental pleas for children to go to bed can now be delivered with a little extra heft. Beginning with elementary schools in Duluth, the National Institutes of Health is undertaking a publicity campaign to persuade children to get more sleep. For years, the NIH has targeted specific groups, including drivers, soldiers and astronauts, with the message that they need solid sleep to be healthy and perform well. Now the message is being brought to children ages 7 to 11. “Whatever children do, they will do it better if they are well rested,” said Carl Hunt, director of NIH’s National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. Hunt said research shows that […]
You’re physically fit: You eat your vegetables daily and run three times a week. But what about your mental fitness? Sure, it’s a little harder to evaluate — you can’t measure it with calipers or a scale. Yet, given the deep connections that researchers have found between mental and physical health, it is crucial that you pay attention to your psychological well-being. According to experts, many of us don’t realize we are suffering psychologically because we aren’t exhibiting “classic” signs like exhaustion, panic attacks or frequent crying. But, specialists warn, psychological problems can take many forms. ” Mental health problems are massively under-diagnosed in men,” says William Pollack, M.D., […]
For 20 years, social epidemiologist Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been collecting data to see if there’s a link between faith and health. His conclusion, coming on a holy week for the nation’s Christians and Jews: “About 80 percent to 90 percent of these studies show there is something positive going on. We’re swimming in empirical evidence.” Among those documenting the case is Harold G. Koenig, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the Duke University Medical Center: “Our studies have shown those who benefit most are those who both attend religious services and practice personal belief at home such as reading religious literature and prayer,” he says. According to […]
There are many reasons why a couple may have difficulty in conceiving a child. Disease, drugs, heredity, lifestyle habits or even exposure to certain toxins can affect fertility. Among the most common culprits of diminished reproductive capacity are: Endometriosis — This condition affects a woman’s pelvic cavity, where tissue fragments from the innermost lining of the uterus (the endometrium) grow and function outside the uterus. They are one of the causes of painful menstruation and infertility. Endometriosis strikes up to 10 million American women and is a major cause of female infertility. These displaced pieces of tissue are not shed vaginally with normal menstrual blood, but instead accumulate inside […]
For Your Health’s Sake: Try a Little Tenderness You are concerned about your heart, so you don’t smoke, you eat a healthful diet and you exercise on a regular basis. Perhaps you should also lay off the negativity and controlling comments when you talk to your spouse. A 3-year study of older married couples conducted by psychologists from the University of Utah has shown a link between the quality of relationships and atherosclerosis, or the narrowing of the arteries that carry blood to the heart. In the study, researchers evaluated videotapes of dialogue between 150 married couples. (At least one member of each couple was beween 60 and […]
Aerobic exercise can increase women’s bone density, and it need not be a high-impact regimen to work, new research shows. In fact, experts’ recommendations for general health–walking for about 30 minutes a day, a few days a week–is enough to lend the bones a hand, George A. Kelley, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston, told Reuters Health. In a review of 24 studies on aerobic exercise and bone mineral density in women, Kelley’s team found that, on average, regular exercisers saw about a 2% bone mass gain over non-exercisers. Whether the modest gain translates into a lower risk of the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis […]
Feb 2004 Walking Rivals Jogging for Heart Health Moderate walking prevents disease as well as more strenuouis exercise does says a new report. A large study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that women over 50 years who walked 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, reduced their risk of having a heart attack just as much as women who jogged, played tennis, or did aerobics for an equal amount of time. Each group cut their risk by a third, regardless of age or weight. It was noted, however, that a leisurely stroll won’t do. You need to walk at a moderate pace of 3 to […]
Getting babies to be active isn’t rocket science: Put a 3-month-old briefly on his tummy and watch him struggle to lift his head. Move an infant’s hands to play patty-cake. Provide crawlers with sturdy furniture to pull on and soon they’ll stand. But too many tots are confined for long periods in strollers, baby seats or playpens when they should be moving around, says the National Association for Sport and Physical Activity. Instead, babies, toddlers and preschoolers need simple but targeted daily activities that are crucial building blocks in learning to walk, run and eventually do all the other tasks the rest of us take for granted, the association says […]
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