November 1-7, 2012 - Original Health Articles

Health Risks in the Wake of a Hurricane

In the aftermath of a violent storm such as Hurricane Sandy, it's more important than ever to remain on full alert. Potential dangers can lurk everywhere from your roof to your kitchen. Here's how to keep yourself and your loved ones safe. Food Poisoning Power outages can result in refrigerators and freezers being filled with spoiled food.

Healthy Aging: What's Normal, What's Not?

Everyone ages differently but inevitably, there are wrinkles, gray hairs, "senior moments" of forgetting words that are on the tip of your tongue, and other signs that affect everyone who gets older. Some signs of aging are quite visible, while others are internal and difficult for even a medical professional to detect.

You're Not Too Old to Travel

Travel advice for older adults is pretty much the same as for younger people, with a few extra tips about health and safety. Your primary concern when traveling short or long distances is to stay safe and healthy. And the best way to make sure that happens is to plan ahead.

Why the Time to Exercise Is Now

If you need one more reason to get moving, consider a new study which suggests that staying fit in midlife can improve the quality of your life later on. It turns out that keeping in shape in midlife heads off chronic diseases and shortens their duration, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

You're Not Too Old to Try Something New

If active aging is your goal, then eating right, getting enough physical and mental exercise, and keeping your stress levels down are all central to success. And just how successful you are depends a great deal on your physical abilities, psychological state, and the behavior patterns or habits that influence the day-to-day decisions you make.

Trauma After the Storm

Manmade and natural disasters certainly test our resilience. In just the last decade or so, we've experienced terrorist attacks, major hurricanes, wars, and now, superstorm Sandy. Relief efforts for Sandy are in the early stages, and professionals and volunteers are focusing on restoring basic services and fulfilling victims' needs for food, safety, and medical care.

6 Common School-Spread Sicknesses

Most families know that back-to-school time also means back-to-doctor time. That's because, when kids crowd onto school busses and into classrooms, they're exposed to lots of new germs. Here are some of the most common ailments: 1) The common cold. On average, children catch between six and eight colds per year and each time, they spend a week or two with a runny nose, coughing, sore throat, chest congestion sneezing, and mild aches and pains.

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