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Months to Live - Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death - Series - NYTimes.com
If the choice is a long painful death, or sedation ... give me sedation.
What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body - Yahoo! Health
drink tea instead!
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Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health.
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one study discovered that drinking one or more soft drinks a day — and it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular — led to a 30% greater chance of weight gain around the belly.
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Until Medical Bills Do Us Part - NYTimes.com
The costs of the current system, especially for the families of those with dementia.
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The existing system doesn’t just break up families, it also costs lives. A 2004 study by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, found that lack of health insurance causes 18,000 unnecessary deaths a year. That’s one person slipping through the cracks and dying every half an hour.
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Long-term care constitutes a difficult and expensive challenge in any health system. But the American patchwork, full of cracks through which people fall, has a special problem with medical expenses of all kinds bankrupting couples.
A study reported in The American Journal of Medicine this month found that 62 percent of American bankruptcies are linked to medical bills. These medical bankruptcies had increased nearly 50 percent in just six years. Astonishingly, 78 percent of these people actually had health insurance, but the gaps and inadequacies left them unprotected when they were hit by devastating bills.
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Moderate Drinking Over 60 May Lower Dementia Risk - NYTimes.com
Good advice.
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moderate alcohol consumption can increase HDL, or “good cholesterol,” improve blood flow to the brain and decrease blood coagulation. All three factors may reduce the risk for dementia.
This Is Reform? - Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com
If you can't make it better, then don't bother trying.
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The hope of a government-run insurance option is all but gone. So there will be no effective alternative for consumers in the market for health coverage, which means no competitive pressure for private insurers to rein in premiums and other charges.
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Think of it: The government is planning to require most uninsured Americans to buy health coverage. Millions of young and healthy individuals will be herded into the industry’s welcoming arms. This is the population the insurers drool over.
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End-of-Life Issues Need to Be Addressed - Jane E. Brody - NYTimes.com
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Lacking guidance from patients and families, physicians who know better too often end up providing costly life support for the terminally ill even though there is no hope for an improved quality of life.
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the report’s summary says, “too many Americans still receive poor care at life’s end and are dying ‘bad’ deaths without adequate palliative care or dignity.”
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Louise McCready: Dr. David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating, On Why We Can't Stop Eating
They weren't kidding when they said, "Bet you can eat just one."
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For many of us—myself included—the Pringles slogan, "Once you pop, you can't stop," is true of a variety of foods
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For many of us—myself included—the Pringles slogan, "Once you pop, you can't stop," is true of a variety of foods
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"Chair Disease": Give it a rest
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Sitting puts nearly twice the stress on the spine as standing; slouching while you sit increases the pressure even more.
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Sitting also tightens and shortens the psoas - the strong hip flexor - which can affect how the pelvis rotates and increase the load on the low back.
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Another Potential Benefit of Cutting Calories - Better Memory - NYTimes.com
Another reason to diet: Eating fewer calories may lead to better memory, a new study says.
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Members of one group ate food they normally ate but were instructed to cut their calories by 30 percent, primarily by eating smaller portions
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Preventing colds may be as easy as vitamin ZZZ - Yahoo! News
Wish I'd seen this before I got my latest cold.
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"The longer you sleep, the better off you are, the less susceptible you are to colds,"
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Prior research has suggested that sleep boosts the immune system at the cell level. This is the first study to show small sleep disturbances increasing the risk of getting sick,
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The Ankle: The Last Frontier in Replaceable Body Parts - NY Times Health
Dealing with a sprained ankle, best therapy
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The high incidence of recurrent sprains that we see is primarily due to the failure to successfully complete an adequate three-phase treatment program.
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What steps do you recommend for healing an ankle sprain?
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