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Restaurant health scores - July 25
Donut King, 6143 Highway 278, Covington, April 25, Score 99. Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins, 3153 Highway 278, Covington, May 10, Score 85. El Charro Mexican Restaurant no. 1, 3165 Elm St., Covington, May 8 Score 95. El Charro Mexican Restaurant no. 5, 9148 M.L.King Jr. Ave., Covington, May 22, Score 99. Fairview Elementary School, 3325 Fairview Road, Covington, March 21, Score 100. Five O'clock Somewhere, 7191 Turner Lake Road, Covington, May 22, Score 89. Gallery In ...
Flu, Pneumonia vaccines available
The Gwinnett, Newton, and Rockdale County Health Departments are now offering annual flu shots at their health centers (Buford, Lawrenceville, Norcross, Conyers, and Covington) to everyone 6 months and older. Both the nasal and injectable forms of the vaccine are available.
Weekley: The biggest abusers of technology – parents
Who complains about whom when it comes to technology? It's parents who complain about their children spending too much time texting and surfing the web, right? Well, it looks like it is the other way around. It is children who worry about their parents' love affairs with their BlackBerries, computers and iPhones and see them as fracturing their families.
Here's to Your Health - Tai Chi – great for health
Tai Chi is a 2,000-year-old Chinese marshal art that has been found to have an abundance of health benefits for Americans. It is a well known branch of Qigong, exercises that are designed to harness qi (pronounced "chee") or life energy. It is a series of martial arts movements executed carefully with an emphasis on deep breathing. Its movements can be adapted to almost anyone, even those with illness and disabilities. It can ...
Cancer survival rates vary by country
A recent article in England's medical journal "The Lancet" reported that survival rates for four major cancers are lower in the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland), than in Australia, Canada, Sweden and Norway, and equivalent with those of Denmark. The study was from the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership. Differences in diagnoses and treatment in these countries are considered to account for this finding.
Personality and Health
Your attitude can effect how healthy your heart is. According to a study recently released in "Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes," individuals with a "distressed" personality, known as a Type D, when compared to optimistic individuals, are three times more likely to develop heart problems such as heart failure, peripheral artery disease and death. The Type D personality was first defined in the '90s and is characterized by feelings of negativity, ...
Reports: more women are getting rheumatoid arthritis
According to a recent study from the Mayo Clinic, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in women has increased between the years 1995 and 2007. This rise follows a four year decline in the disease and is speculated to be effected by environmental factors such as cigarette smoking, vitamin D deficiency and lower dose synthetic estrogens in oral contraceptives. The Mayo Clinic study was published in June in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism and included over 50 years ...
Cancer deaths slowing in the U.S.
According to a recent report from the American Cancer Society, death rates from cancer are continuing to decline in the U.S. That's the good news. The bad news is that hundreds of thousands of Americans still die of cancer each year. The ACS attributes the slow but steady drop in cancer deaths to lower rates of smoking, increased efforts at early detection and better treatments. Between the years 2001 and 2006 the death rates ...
If you want to improve your memory, take a nap
This month researchers reported online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that good study habits should include a lot of napping. When compared to those who didn't sleep, or slept but didn't report dreams, study subjects who napped after learning a task and dreamed about it recalled it the best.
Health benefits of pets
Most readers who own a pet, be it dog, cat, bird, ferret, horse or other creature, can probably speak to the emotional benefits of owning an adoring animal. Anecdotes are prolific about the human health benefits of companion animals, both service and therapy animals, and family pets. (I'm not too sure about goldfish, however.) But in-depth scientific research into this apparently obvious phenomenon are rare. Now, however, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute ...
The mother’s weight during pregnancy affects child's adult weight
If a mother gains too much weight during her pregnancy she places her child at an increased risk of being overweight farther down the road. This is according to a recent study published in Lancet, England's premier medical journal. The researchers were American and funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. They followed all births in Michigan and New Jersey between the years 1989 and 2003. Of the 513,000 women and ...
Elicit drugs found to have healing properties
Who would have thought that the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine, outlawed by the Controlled Substances Act, would be found to have properties that really helped people. These drugs became popular during the 1990s as "club drugs" prolific in all-night raves. MDMA, popularly known as Ecstacy, and Ketamine were drugs that could earn you the same sentence for selling them as it would if you were caught selling heroin or methamphetamine. <p ...
Cutting down on children’s summer accidents
Summer can be rough on a kid, as most parents know. Children and adolescents fall, crash their bicycles, burn themselves, almost drown and are in car crashes. Falls lead this list of the most common reasons children are admitted to hospitals during summer months.
Here's To Your Health: Obama’s health care overhaul
Here is some information about President Barrack Obama's massive heathcare overhaul bill that was signed into being on March 22, 2010: Coverage: 32 million uninsured. The major increase in coverage will begin in year 2014. When it is fully installed, 94 percent of eligible non-elderly Americans will have coverage. Current coverage is 83 percent.
Spare the rod and save the child?
People have been arguing about the value of corporal punishment of children for a very long time. Fanning the flames of this debate has been conflicting research supporting the opposing ideologies. Recently, however, a five year effort to review the scientific literature by the family services division of the American Psychological Association has reached a conclusion, "parents and caregivers should reduce and potentially eliminate their use of any physical punishment as a ...
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