"Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported Monday in the most extensive study of its kind."

"Acupuncture works better than drugs like aspirin to reduce the severity and frequency of chronic headaches, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

A review of studies involving nearly 4,000 patients with migraine, tension headache and other forms of chronic headache showed that that 62 percent of the acupuncture patients reported headache relief compared to 45 percent of people taking medications, the team at Duke University found."

Depression Leads to Internal Body Fat in 70-Somethings, Study Suggests

Following my recent post on the relation between television watching and degrees of happiness, I felt it was fitting to reference a recent article I found in the Wall Street Journal.

A recent study has found that "Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat -- the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease -- than people who aren't depressed."

What Happy People Don't Do

In a recent study published by Dr. John Robinson (a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland) in the journal Social Indicators Research, it was stated that an individual's level of "happiness" is negatively correlated to the time spent watching television.

6 Food Mistakes Parents Make

By Tara Parker-Pope
09/16/2008
The New York Times

HARRIET WOROBEY, a childhood nutrition instructor, knows firsthand that children can be picky eaters, but even she was surprised by a preschooler last year who ate a mostly chocolate diet. “Chocolate milk, chocolate chip muffins, chocolate chip pancakes — it was unbelievable,” said Ms. Worobey, director of the Rutgers University Nutritional Sciences Preschool in New Brunswick, N.J. “His mother just thought, ‘That’s what he wants, so that’s what I’m going to do.’ ”

Obviously updates, after becoming more consistent, have stopped.

Recently I tore my ACL and had recosntructive surgery in my right knee. I've been working from home, bed ridden in my recovery process with my leg locked in the straight position, icing my swollen leg, and taking narcotic pain killers.

While you may assume this leaves me plenty of time to update, the effects of my medication leave me groggy, drowsy, and leave an overall cloudiness of the mind. Not the best way to try to write.

I'll try to post something here or there, but don't get your hopes up.

Asthma Tied to Sweat Levels
Referencing ERIC NAGOURNEY of The New York Times

A very common part of life for a large percentage of the US population (with numbers increasing every year due to air quality concerns, etc.), asthma has recently been tied to something even more common: sweat.

"People who suffer from a form of asthma caused by exercise appear to produce less sweat, saliva and tears than people without the problem, researchers say."

The back-pain workout shores up muscles
Referencing Jeannine Stein of the Chicago Tribune

Back pain is the bane of millions, but some simple exercises might help prevent and alleviate those aches and twinges. What seems like common sense to many of those in the fitness community escapes so many others...People think that your back hurts so you work your back muscles, when in fact you work the other side of your body. Exercises that target the abdominal and oblique muscles can help prevent and alleviate back aches.

Via Beth Klos from the Brigham and Women's Hospital

For those of you with any common sense, or have any interest in what this blog mainly focuses on (fitness/health), none of this should be a surprise. But there is still a large population of people that still live by and preach myths about food and nutrition. Here are four food myths that you can now consider busted...

While most employers in the US subsidize the costs of managed health care plans, the average employee in the US can still expect to pay $3,597 a year - $331 more than in 2007. Whether you are on an employer subsidized insurance plan, self-insured, under-insured or one of the millions of uninsured, you are probably constantly looking for ways to save on your health care costs. Try some of the following tips to help take a chunk out of your health expenditures...