How to get your fitness back on track without burning out
McClatchy Newspapers
1/6/2009, by Leslie Garcia
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - Time to rid the house of corn chips and good intentions and start fresh on a brand spankin' new year. Let's go over the resolution list again, shall we?
No muffins. No pizza. No ice cream. No beer. No chocolate. No nitrates. No head cheese. No white rice. No ...
Top 10 kids health issues to watch
McClatchy Newspapers
1/5/2009
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT) - As 2008 comes to a close, Akron, Ohio, Children's Hospital has compiled "10 Kids' Health Issues to Watch" in 2009. This year's list includes both mental and physical health issues. However, one common thread factors into many of these issues and so became the country's ...
Create your own mini-gym for next to nothing
McClatchy Newspapers
1/5/2009, by Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - If you're like a lot of us, the New Year means your waist is noticeably thicker while your wallet is depressingly thinner than a month or two ago. The good news: You've come to the right place at the right time.
Personal trainers put together full-body workout ...
Strike a yoga pose to strike down stress
McClatchy Newspapers
1/5/2009, by Leslie Garcia
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - When hyperventilating sometimes seems the only option to stress, Petri Brill has a healthier suggestion: yoga. "Yoga is not just a practice of poses, but of your breath work," says Brill, a Dallas certified yoga instructor. "The practice of slow, controlled, ...
Keep your baby smiling with proper, early dental hygiene
McClatchy Newspapers
12/31/2008, by Debbie Cafazzo
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - New mom Christine Chansley had read all about baby bottle tooth decay. Nearly every baby book on the market warns parents not to put children to bed with a bottle of milk, formula or juice. The practice can lead to tooth decay.
But Chansley, of Tacoma, Wash., had no ...
Cathedral student ready for Christmas after transplant
St. Louis Review
12/31/2008, by Jean M. Schildz
In 1944 a public school music teacher, Donald Gardner, penned the song, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth." Fast forward 64 years and a 10 year-old sang, "All I want for Christmas is a new heart." and she got one! St. Louis, MO (St. Louis Review) - This month Cathedral Basilica School ...
Product review leads companies to pull food items from shelves
McClatchy Newspapers
12/29/2008, by Sam Roe and Ted Gregory
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Some supermarkets, gourmet shops and bakeries routinely sell mislabeled products that pose a danger to children with food allergies, according to Chicago Tribune testing and a comprehensive check of grocery aisles. When informed of the findings, more than a dozen companies ...
A sick toddler's blog touches lives
McClatchy Newspapers
12/26/2008, by Debra Skodack
BOLIVAR, Mo. _ Granton Bayless scoots across the living room couch. When he nears the cushion's edge, an adult gently intercepts him and holds him in her arms. He squirms with enough energy that he gets his wish. Back on the couch. More scooting.
Granton's life is as preciously carefree as any ...
Ask Dr. Denton: The Glycemic Index - Nature’s FBI 'Fat Body Index'
Catholic Online
12/24/2008, by Dr. Denton & Michelle Weiss
Virginia Beach, Va (Catholic Online) - Over the past five years multiple diets have been presented using some form of the glycemic index as a measure of good verses bad carbohydrates. The value used to determine good verses bad carbohydrates is based largely on the glycemic index of individual ...
Easy-to-take forms of common medications are becoming the modern spoonful of sugar
McClatchy Newspapers
12/23/2008, by Jan Jarvis
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Forget about gagging on pills that seem as big as footballs or swallowing liquids that smell like cod liver oil. Today, everything from cough medicine to multiple vitamins has been turned into pellets that melt, powders that dissolve and gum balls that can be gobbled up ...
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