Up until recently, health and medicine was basically a hit or miss affair. We would discover interventions such as drugs that had benefits, but also many side effects. With recent research information from Dresden, Germany sperm can now be trapped in nanotubes (grown in a lab with a cylindrical structure that exhibits heat and electrical properties, which are...Continue reading
Category: Family
Can’t Sleep? Try Natural Solutions Before Turning to Medication
A report published by The Lancet medical journal found that sleep issues are a major problem for many Americans, with nearly one-quarter of adults unhappy with their quality of sleep. Prescription medications to induce a good night’s sleep are a common solution; however, they’ve become a new focus for the Food and Drug Administration due...Continue reading
Holiday Tips with Unexpected Foods to Help You Lose Weight
With the holidays in motion, it’s no secret that losing weight will be easy; in fact, it can be downright frustrating. Contrary to popular belief, weight loss is not just about exercising furiously or eating a diet of solely fruits and vegetables. Whether it’s because they speed up your metabolism or because they keep you...Continue reading
Is Vasectomy the New Condom?
Ok, so I pulled the trigger and officially called a vasectomy the “new condom” in the press. Sounds crazy, eh? Of course, a vasectomy doesn’t protect you from sexually transmitted diseases like a condom. But, when it comes to fertility, vasectomies are more reversible than previously thought.
Problem? There’s a Pill for That. Well, Maybe…
Over the past few decades, medical advances have improved the quality–and length–of life for millions. And we’ve gotten so used to relying on pills that we’ve gotten ourselves into some serious trouble. In short, we’re taking way more medication than we need to. And our health is suffering as a result. The infographic below illustrates...Continue reading
Why Heat Beats Ice for Workout Recovery & Healing
Ice is to physical soreness like alcohol is to emotional ailments. People are quick to resort to it as a band-aid for pain or discomfort. Yet, just as a bottle of wine will only make a person feel better temporarily, ice is also a security blanket that doesn’t get to the root issues of healing....Continue reading
The Juice Illusion
As we sit down for family meals every day, it’s commonplace to serve the kids a cold glass of OJ with waffles, sweet apple juice at snack time or share a delicious smoothie as a treat – BUT did you know that by swapping whole fruits and veggies with juice each day provides the family...Continue reading
The New Knight in Shining Armor
by Stew Friedman The stories we tell children transmit cultural values. Based on the surprising results of a new study my colleagues and I conducted of two generations of Wharton School graduates, I bet that today’s boys and girls are hearing new kinds of stories about men and women than the ones you heard as...Continue reading
Living with Prostate Cancer: It’s Complicated
I guess it’s part of the male provider-protector thing: A recent survey found that men with advanced prostate cancer worry more about burdening their family and friends than about dying. That’s only one surprising fact from a fascinating and sometimes puzzling survey called The Advanced Prostate Cancer Patient and Caregiver Burden of Illness Study.Continue reading
5 Unhealthy Ways Men Deal with Rejection
Rejections are the emotional cuts and scrapes of daily life. We get turned down by romantic partners, our colleagues get together without inviting us, our spouses rebuff our sexual advances, our neighbors don’t invite us to their holiday parties, and our friends ignore our posts and Tweets on social media platforms.