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Health Headlines: Shame, Sanitizer, and Fit Immune Systems
After nursing two sick children last week, these headlines caught my attention, since staying well is always on my mind.
Shame "Boosts Hand Washing Rate" — BBC
"Is the person next to you washing with soap?" This is the shaming message used to scare Brits using public restrooms into washing their hands .
Health Food Headlines
I love food. Not just eating it, but reading about it too. Here are three food-driven headlines that caught my eye.
Health Headlines: Breakthroughs, Happiness and Hannah Montana
There are some health headlines that are worth sharing. Often the stories behind the headlines live up to their tag lines. I wish I could say there was a method to the madness, some theme that connects these stories, but there is not.
Love and Hearts in Headlines
It is Valentine's Day (as if you didn't already know that after the barrage of hearts and flowers), but it is also heart-health month. The confluence of these two events has lead to many health headlines containing hearts and love. So check these stories for your V-day health news hit.
Health Headlines: Sex, Marriage and Tears
There are some health headlines that are worth sharing. Often the stories behind the headlines live up to their tag lines. Check out these three stories, on marriage and gender differences, all caught my eye and I had to share.
Health Headlines
There are some health headlines that are worth sharing. Often the stories behind the headlines live up to their tag lines. Check out these three stories with "double take" deserving headlines.
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Studies Have Confirmed: Sugar, Models, and Clowns
Some health studies make headlines and they seem quite shocking and sad, like this one from CNN: Tweens Challenged by Grown-Up Malady: Breast Cancer. Others bring out my inner fourth grader, and my response to them is sophisticated "no duh." But stories are often more complicated than their headlines, and it is nice to have scientific studies confirm a few assumptions.
Odd But True: Health Headlines
In the last few days I have read some truly entertaining health headlines, which I admit can be quite rare since most deal with serious topics like cancer, mortality rates and the rising obesity rates.
Here are a few stories that may tickle your funny bone and give you a chuckle. Not only is laughter good for the soul, it is good for your blood vessels - so read on!
Healthy Dose Link Time
- Cool off with this Asian Cucumber Salad — Mark's Daily Apple
- The psychology of post-diet weight gain — Daily Spark
- The skinny on nutritional yeast — Vitamin G
- Eddie Izzard running 1,000 miles for charity — FitCeleb
- There are so many reasons to play paddle ball at the beach — That's Fit
- Say bye to crunches and try this standing figure eight ab move — Fresh Fitness Tips
- Get the scoop in ExerciseTV's Bikini Body Workout — Fit Bottomed Girls
- Here's help on how to cut calories — Shape
Bra Turned Face Mask — Love It or Leave It?
Nobel prizes have been winning headlines these days. We all dissected President Obama's unlikely award last week, and this morning we got news that Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the prize for economics.
Now I'd like to call your attention to an invention that has gained Elena Bodnar the Ig Nobel prize in public health.
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