Moving and Eating Walk after meals. Stand and move after you eat. You’ve probably heard this advice somewhere. But does it really work? If the goal is preventing diabetes, it seems to prove true – at least for a group of folks studied at George Washington University. The Study People 60 and over at risk […]
Natural Versus Normal Sleep (7/1/13)
What Is Real Sleep? People always ask me how much sleep they should get to live and live well. I usually respond “it depends.” The individual answers encompass genes, jobs, habits, drugs and several dozen other factors – before the unknown ones. But what’s a proper society-wide answer? How much sleep do humans need? We […]
Dying Off (6/24/13)
Ending Lives Across America, communities are expiring. The average population decrease is 4% a year. Smaller, more endangered groups are disappearing at a rate more like 12%. Government records argue that if the die-off continues at this pace, half these communities will be gone in 20 years. Who are they? Rural farmers? Skilled urban industrial […]
Sitting Smoking Sleeping (6/18/13)
Going to Extremes Human beings love to test limits. For many it’s fun to drive a car. And if driving is fun, it’s also fun to simultaneously talk on the phone, eat a granola bar, read our emails, dictate a letter and watch TV. Except when we run someone over. Or slam into rear of […]
A Modest Proposal to Save Countless Lives (6/11/13)
Liberating Health(y) Surveillance The American public has been shocked, shocked to learn the NSA has potentially tapped every phone and email account in the U.S. – for national security. Yet Facebook, Google and others have for years tracked your cat photos and car interiors, love affairs and esteemed nude self portraits, selling bits and bytes […]
