I think we have probably all done it. Gone way too long in the sun without protection, and ended up paying the price. At first you look a little pink and think it won’t be so bad. Then you wake up the next morning, look in the mirror and think you are looking at the Red Lobster logo!
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Make a gift before June 30th – and two inner-city children’s lives will be changed forever!
The Countdown to Summer 2010 is on and The Fresh Air Fund is in need of host families. If you or someone you know is able to host, please sign up now.
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By Lily
The Breast Cancer Protection Act was first introduced to Congress in 1996. It’s purpose is to stop “drive-through mastectomies” where women are sent home almost immediately after surgery. The Act prohibits insurance companies from restricting benefits for less than 48 hours after a mastectomy and 24 hours for a lymph node dissection. While it does not require the patient stay there that amount time, no approval is necessary if they do. After passing Congress in 2008, intense lobbying from insurance companies kept it from reaching the Senate floor for a vote. The Act has again been re-introduced. The Lifetime Channel has collected over 24 million signatures of support. If you’d like to sign the petition, here is the link. Please feel free to share your thoughts and stories.
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By Jennie
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Tylenol and a number of other over-the-counter medicines has issued a voluntary recall of certain children’s medicines (a full list can be found here) due to quality control concerns. The recall covers 43 different products under the brand names of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl. The company issued the recall after fielding consumer complaints over “tiny particles” found in some medicines; investigation of these complaints led to concerns that some of the medications “may contain a higher concentration of active ingredient than is specified” and “others may contain inactive ingredients that may not meet internal testing requirements,” according to a press release issued by the company.
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By Anya
Officials in Santa Clara County – the heart of Silicon Valley – voted 3 to 2 recently to ban Happy Meal toys and other similar give-a-ways from being included with children’s meals.
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Kindergartners need them. College students thrive on them. I just absolutely love them and it appears that research from the University of California, Berkeley shows that a power nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power.
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PepsiCo Inc. announced on March 16th plans to halt the sale of sugary drinks in schools worldwide by 2012. The world’s second-largest soft-drink firm behind Coca-Cola stated that it will pull sweetened, full-calorie drinks from elementary and secondary schools — and instead expand offerings of low-calorie beverages. This action is being applauded because of its global ramifications. PepsiCo already has a policy in place in the U.S.
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By Jennie
My head is not easily turned by the latest diet fads – eat carbs, don’t eat carbs, eat fat, but not that kind of fat, stand on your head, don’t eat after 6:00 p.m. unless you live below sea level, etc. I have known for a long time that the “secret” to weight loss is this: expend more calories than you take in. How you do that is up to you, but it’s more about doing it in a healthy and sustainable way than about some miracle way of eating that will “unlock the secret to losing weight.”
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Written by Kimberly
I wasn’t prone to headaches till about five or six years ago. Before that the only time I had aching in my head was if I caught the flu or something like that. Even in my party days, I didn’t get the dreaded headache that accompanied a hangover. Actually, I didn’t get hangovers.
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Although we would like to think that “Empty Calories” means no calories, it really means high-calorie foods with little or no nutritional value. They are typically from processed carbohydrates or fats. An empty calorie has the same energy content of any other calorie but lacks accompanying nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants.
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