New Ideas for Health As was clear in Part I, many factors can help revive the American economy . They also hold many lessons for individuals: 3. Immigration – A lot of what has kept the US competitive since the 1970s have been successes in technology like those from Silicon Valley, where at least 35% […]
Regenerating the economy, regenerating your health – Part 1 (11/23/11)
How We Come Back Is America’s economy failing? Why our 45% of families barely making it? Is a nation with stalled growth, a corrupt and overpowerful financial sector, staggering debt, political dysfunction, fighting two wars overseas while its infrastructure crumbles, able to come back? Yes – as it always has. The capacity for regeneration is […]
Are we taking too many pills? (11/21/11)
Who’s Using What? Consider these facts: According to the government, 20% of American adults have abused prescription drugs – ingesting drugs for other than therapeutic purposes. Perhaps one in four teenagers are abusing prescription drugs. 30% of adult women are using a sleeping pill at least a few nights a week Eleven percent of Americans […]
Booze and sleeping pills – the wrong combination (11/16/11)
Alcohol and Pills for Sleep “Beer and valium, that’s how I sleep. Works every time, a perfect night’s sleep.” So said an actor friend of mine, who often had trouble “coming down” after a play and used this cocktail three or four times a week. Yet often alcohol plus sleeping pills do not “work.” Thirty […]
Weight, learning and sleep – it’s all connected (11/14/11)
Less Sleep, More Weight – and Worse Learning Connections count. A few years ago people had a hard time believing that sleep time determined weight. Though physicians have long recognized that increased weight means increased sleep apnea, most of the population does not recognize that being overweight itself interferes with sleep and increases inflammation. […]
