New Zealand’s health minister apologized after he was demoted for breaking the country’s coronavirus lockdown to take his family to the beach. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern demoted David Clark to “the bottom of our Cabinet rankings” and stripped him of his role as associate finance minister in response to the revelation, although she said that… Read More »
April 2020 Print this issue Health Capsule A new study shows that stress really can give you gray hair. Researchers found that the body’s fight-or-flight response plays a key role in turning hair gray. Your hair color is determined by pigment-producing cells called melanocytes. New melanocytes are made from melanocyte stem cells that live in… Read More »
Old age can be an interesting experience if one is lucky and willing to work at making it so. Luck is beyond our control, since it is due to our genetic makeup and to past lifetime choices we made and cannot undo. But the will to work is different. Having long been told what to… Read More »
The CDC has been studying the obesity problem in the United States. They are concerned as all of us are by the health risks of obesity. The results of a 2018 survey were alarming. At least 35% of adults in Arkansas, Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, and West Virginia were obese. The results… Read More »