Some people do all the right things and still develop serious health problems. Others flaunt their bad habits and are able to live long ...

We all know people who get up with the first rays of the sun. Some people wake up even earlier, bouncing out of bed before there is even...

Long ago and far away, a fourth-grade teacher told a student to "stand up straight - you look like a pretzel". The unthinking adult only...

America's weight problems are now so well-known they're even fair game for jokes at the Oscars. "Americans really know how to fill up a ...

We live in stressful times. The economy is tough, global conflicts rage, severe weather events are affecting people in every corner of...

"The Stress of Life" is a perennial bestseller by Hans Selye, written in 1956. Selye almost single-handedly introduced the notion of...

Way back in the 1960s, when everything was brand-new, the Beatles introduced Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to national television audiences in ...

We certainly live in stressful times. It's not easy to assess whether our era is the most stressful, but we do have plenty of daily...

This is turning out to be a pretty tough century. Or at least so far. The recent earthquake-like shocks in the economy have impacted...

Trigger points are persistent, localized muscle spasms that can cause a great deal of pain. Trigger points alone may be responsible for ...

Is it possible that ups and downs with respect to our health and well-being are yet another reflection of the ebb and flow of all things?...

Most of us are procrastinators. We let things go until the last minute. Papers, magazines, and books pile up on the desk until the...

We're in the middle of several deadly epidemics in the United States. Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are affecting more and more...

Since mid-Fall TV commercials have been trumpeting the horrors of the "flu season". "It's never too soon to begin fighting this year's...

Health care breakthroughs are big business. We know this because such news is reported in the Business Section of newspapers and...

We all know some people who get sick all the time. They're just getting over one thing when here comes the next round of illness. We...

Like Scylla and Charybdis, the twin sea monsters of Greek mythology, diabetes and obesity are the twin medical monsters confronting...

What is your lifestyle? Not whether you are married or where you live, but rather, how are you choosing to live your life? What choices ...

The worldwide type 2 diabetes epidemic has been thoroughly documented.1,2 Yet despite extensive study and analysis, there has been...

American kids are under tremendous pressure to perform well in school. Every year they're required to take more and more standardized ...