Airplanes recirculate cabin air and about 50 percent of the air in an airplane cabin at any one time is recirculated. Did you know fresh air is mixed with recirculated air, particulates, and microbes are filtered and the air quality is typically rather good when you fly? And, the low humidity of cabin air can be especially hard on your lungs… Does anyone sense a “problem” here? Our
Whether you are a parent of a child with asthma or suffer from it yourself, the following is a must read regarding a missing piece of information that may be inadvertently withheld from you by your doctors. Every parent with a child with asthma has, at one point, felt helpless. When sport or play turns into a full-blown, hands-on-the knees wheezing episode, you want to just reach out and
Men versus women: who needs more calcium? A hip fracture due to osteoporosis is quite often the beginning of the end and can mark a downward spiral of health. In fact, researchers found a five to eight fold increase in mortality in the first three months following a hip fracture. A broken bone! And men are more likely to die than women. Usually hip fracture is associated with osteopenia or
How Long Have You Been Sitting in That Chair? Do you ever feel like your job may be killing you? It likely is. If your workday is as sedentary as most, you are putting yourself at daily risk for increased disease and mortality rates just for doing your job. Consider: Americans spend 8.5 hours a day sitting in front of screens—computer, televisions, etc. Nearly half (49 percent) of