Is it better to work standing? To stand while you eat? Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, chair of preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic – Rochester, has published a study of studies showing standing at a desk while working “burns” an extra .15 calorie per minute. Is that enough to be worthwhile? It’s time to examine some of the evidence about […]
Stress, Overeating, and Sleep
Stress makes you sleepless. Insomnia makes you hungry, especially ravenous for fat and sugar. You eat more, gain weight, get more stressed. Then repeat. When expectations exceed realities stress becomes one’s constant companion. The plane flight to see your ailing mother is delayed, then cancelled. Your kid forgets his homework and you can’t leave work […]
Do Gut Bugs Change Cancer Therapy?
It appears your gut bug population changes cancer therapy effectiveness. A trial of immunotherapy on metastatic melanoma found those with greater variety of GI bacteria did far better than those with more limited populations. If you had a lot of ruminococcus around, you were more likely to stay alive. What Happened? People with immunotherapy trials […]
Fighting Families Fall Ill (5/19/14)
The Family That Stays Together… The “classic” film “Bonnie and Clyde” nearly did not get made. Film producers at Warner Brothers could not understand why they should unleash onto the public a movie whose romantic leads’ (Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) main occupation was ultraviolently killing bank managers and police. Warren Beatty saved the […]
15 “Rules” for a Less Stressed Life (5/31/13)
The Challenge Recently I was asked to write a guest post on “15 Rules For A Stress Free Life.” My first question was – what is stress? Here’s one definition – stress is how your body reacts to challenge. From that definition follow a few potential “rules”: 1. There is no such entity as a […]