Category: health

Smaller portions of food

October 15, 2006 | 4 comments

My wife, Kathy, recently started buying bread in smaller loaves. The kids and I looked at the miniature sandwich slices and complained about their tiny size. Kathy pointed out that when she was a kid, all bread slices were that

Shaping up from within

October 15, 2006 | No comments yet

I haven’t read Victoria Moran’s book “Fit from within,” but I like some of the ideas she has to share on losing weight without diets by integrating a spiritual component. She wrote in part: The people I know who maintain

Your destiny?

October 5, 2006 | 2 comments

Can you relate to this quote that came across my screen yesterday? (With no author to credit) “The more precisely you plan the harder destiny hits you.” I can think of times in my life when I had every little

Too thin models

September 21, 2006 | 2 comments

“Thin is not in—at least in Madrid,” AP reports. Fashion models with a BMI of less than 18 were turned away from Madrid’s Fashion Week show recently because they were unhealthy and promoting an image that young girls try to

Drug ads sell disease

August 29, 2006 | No comments yet

Check out an insightful csmonitor.com article on how drug ads sell sickness to promote their products. The article reports that in the effort of pharmaceutical companies to create new disease markets, they’re frightening people into taking more prescriptions than they