Understanding the ‘scary words’ of mid-life development
The Allentown Diocese Times
6/24/2009, by Tara J. Connolly
Allentown, PA (A.D. Times) – “Scary words are words for which we hold inadequate – not incorrect – understandings. By keeping those words at a distance, we fail to discover the richness and insight they hold for our lives,” explained Sr. Mary Pat Garvin, R.S.M., Ph.D., May 21 during a seminar ...
Health care workers urged to fight for conscience rights
The Catholic Review
5/13/2009, by George P. Matysek Jr.
Baltimore (Catholic Review) - Catholic health care providers need to stand up and defend their right to practice medicine in a way that’s consistent with their religious convictions, according to several speakers at a symposium on conscience rights held May 9 at St. Joseph Medical Center in ...
Ask Dr. Denton: Swine Flu Too!
Catholic Online
5/2/2009
The media can’t decide whether to scare us some more so we stay glued to 24 – 7 news channels or do the right thing and give us facts. PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Catholic Online) - Really, this is getting to be TOO much! Once again I felt compelled to keep up with the Dooms Day approach to U.S. medicine via ...
Ask Dr. Denton: Swine Flu Fear is Useless: Use Precaution, Faith, Common Sense
Catholic Online
4/28/2009, by Dr. Denton D. Weiss, M.D.
Use common sense, do not give in to fear and this will be appropriately managed both in Mexico and across the World. PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Catholic Online) – The rush is on to give us information… or, in some cases, is it really to sell fear? As I watched the National News Organizations give the moment ...
Sugar-sweetened soft drinks coming back to mainstream
McClatchy Newspapers
4/27/2009, by Barry Shlachter
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Bowing to consumer trends, two soft drinks with connections to the past were launched this week for a national, but brief, eight-week run. Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback are sweetened with sugar made from cane and beets, unlike their namesakes, which use ...
Sick and tired finds company
McClatchy Newspapers
4/24/2009, by Karen Garloch
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Most of the 15 people gathered for a support group this month did not look sick. But when they began to talk about their common conditions, the list of symptoms went on and on.
Pain, fatigue, depression. Insomnia, nausea, headaches. Muscle spasms, ringing in the ears ...
Avoid the fall — and the fear
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by Blythe Bernhard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Everybody falls. Down the stairs, on the ice or over your own feet; it happens all the time. For most people, falling is no big deal. But older adults face a higher risk for injuries.
One in three adults 65 and older stumble each year, and about one-third of those ...
Organic, all-natural and eco-friendly lifestyle curbs boy's asthma, allergy problems
McClatchy Newspapers
4/21/2009, by Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT) - Nicholas Pollock must avoid reds, blues, yellows, purples. That's a result of the severe asthma and allergies from which the pint-sized 2½-year-old Stow, Ohio, youngster suffers. But he is much healthier _ thanks to green living.
His grateful mother, Suzanne Balch, ...
Unsung superfoods: Healthful foods you should incorporate into your diet (and how to enjoy them)
McClatchy Newspapers
4/20/2009, by Julie Deardorff
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Step aside, blueberries, spinach and broccoli. It's time to give unsung superfoods a chance. Many of us tend to eat what we know and what we can pronounce and prepare. But mixing things up helps add more healthful micronutrients and phytochemicals into our diets, said Mary ...
The humble push-up: a metaphor for life itself
McClatchy Newspapers
4/20/2009, by Sam McManis
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - More than a mere exercise, the humble push-up can be viewed as nothing less than a metaphor for life itself. Think of its motion as mirroring the cyclical, up-and-down nature of existence, almost Sisyphean in movement. Often, as in life, you are pushing against your own ...
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