health

It is ironic -- I could have told you those toning sneakers were a gimmick, but apparently it takes a lawsuit and the Federal Trade Commission for people to believe that simply wearing sneakers will tone you legs and gluteals without having to workout necessarily.  Hello!?

72 illnesses have now been reported in 18 states and are related to the consumption of tainted cantaloupe.

While some experts have speculated that the antioxidants in coffee have health benefits, a large new study, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, says women are less likely to become depressed if they drink a few cups a day.

Yesterday I asked you in my blog to e mail me some "dilemmas" that you the listener can tackle on the air each day. Today we read an E mail about a woman who has a "pact" with her friend to tell each other if one of them started to gain too much weight. I guess that time had come for her friend but she didn't really want to tell her and hurt her feelings and wondered if she sho

I think everyone knows the dance called the Electric Slide. I've deejayed plenty of wedding receptions and parties where people joined in for the line dance.

You would think with summer coming to an end that we wouldn’t be worrying about mosquitoes, but we do.

In the first study of its kind, researchers compared the testosterone level of men when they were single and childless to their testosterone level after they had had a child. While testosterone always decreases when men age, the decline was much more pronounced among the men who had become fathers.

Lord knows we could all use a little chuckling these days.  If a hurricane or an earthquake doesn't get you, the 24 hour depressing news reports will!  At some point you have to force yourself to laugh.  It's very good for your heart.  Very good!

The state Department of Health (DOH) has come to the conclusion that the Lafarge cement plant, in Ravena, is not a threat to residents.

While the World Health Organization, the U.S. and other countries recommend adults get at least half-hour of moderate workout most days, a new Taiwanese study suggests just half of that will help.

A 4-year old child from Oswego County died on Sunday from the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus or EEE – a mosquito carried virus that causes serious illness and death.

We all worry about weight gain. Clearly, I don't worry enough to stop drinking the kinds of things that have expanded my mid section,  but it's not like I don't know I have to figure out a way to keep it in check. I don't know about you but I am just not a fan of going to the gym these days. It's hard enough to motivate myself to go somewhere I want to go let alone that place. So thanks to Reader'