Physicians advise new moms to breastfeed their babies exclusively for the first six months of life and to continue for at least the first year, but why are so few new moms making that their goal?
Research shows that mammograms can cut your risk of dying from breast cancer by 30 to 40 percent. So what’s keeping many women from making the appointment?
The popularity of low-carb dieting has made many
of us look at sandwiches with suspicion, dinner rolls with disdain. The truth, though, is that those banishing bread are really missing out.
School-age kids average between eight and twelve colds a year making winter a seemingly endless attack of germs. New plans make preparing for the worst germ warfare easier than you think.
The encephalopathy that often accompanies
late-stage liver disease can
make a patient a little loopy, prone to odd
behavior and hallucinations—like you’re on a beach in
Jamaica instead of
fighting for your life.
Jean Ronnei, director
of nutrition and commercial services for the St.
Paul public schools, believes kids will develop a taste for
what’s good for them—if we regularly put good stuff in front of them.
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