“Tips to Trip By: The art and science
of traveling with diabetes”
Diabetes Forecast, 05.08
Twice a month for 16 years, Paul Friedrich, 80, has commuted
from Chicago to Virginia to visit family. In 2008, 26-year-old
Leighton Rockafellow Jr. will have backpacked through more
than two dozen countries. Both bring an extra companion on
every trip: their diabetes.
For Friedrich, a semi-retired University of Chicago anthropology
professor, it’s type 2, managed with pills and careful
meal planning; for Rockafellow, it’s type 1, managed
with insulin. But whether you’re backpacking through
the Andes or hopping a single time zone, hitting the road with
diabetes is kind of like traveling with a small child: in both
cases, forethought pays off.
The week-by-week plan that follows will give you an idea of
how the pros do it. Feel free to tailor it to your own situation—and
let it inspire you to pursue your own adventures, too.
Download a PDF of this article here.
“On the Issues: Presidential hopefuls
propose healthcare reform with varying degrees”
BlackEnterprise.com, 05.08
The healthcare issues of the 2008 presidential election are
as notable for what they highlight as for what they neglect.
Abortion may not be the hot-button topic of past elections,
but it is still an issue that is on the table. Of the three
top candidates, Republican candidate Sen. John McCain is the
only pro-life candidate in the bunch--but quietly so.
Instead, when it comes to medical matters, the primary focus
for this year's vote is reforming the entire medical system.
And for good reason. Nearly 47 million Americans were uninsured
in 2006, the last date for which statistics are available.
Almost one in five are African American. How McCain, Sen. Barack
Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton propose to fix the nation's
healthcare situation varies widely.
Will these proposed plans improve your health and bottom line?
To find out, we sifted through election-year rhetoric. Here's
how the candidate's proposed healthcare plans affect you as
a patient and as a businessperson.
Read the full article here.
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“Many Ways: Adapted exercise boosts body and
spirit”
Momentum: Magazine of the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society, Spring.08
Lori Holder-Webb thought her active life was
over when her first MS attacks in 2006 left her unable to walk
on her own. With panic, she imagined never doing the snowshoeing,
Nordic skiing, or 20-mile bike rides she’d always enjoyed
in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin.
Then she found a three-wheel
bike with a low-slung seat that restores the balance she lost
to MS. It also restores something else: Her self-image.
These
women share how they’ve made adapted exercise
a regular part of their lives—gaining balance, strength,
energy and joy in the process.
Download a PDF of this article
here.
“America’s Surprisingly Unhealthy Jobs”
Yahoo! Hot Jobs, 03.08
Forget stuntmen. Some of the country's
least healthy jobs are in cubicles, hospitals, and restaurants.
Are you at risk?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),
it's not just farm laborers or police officers who have high
rates of workplace injuries and illnesses. In fact, some common
-- and seemingly benign -- professions have high rates of injury
and illnesses that were severe enough to cause workers to miss
at least one day of work in 2006.
Read the full article here.
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“Homophobic Bullying”
teenwire.com, 07.24.07
Homophobic bullying can be anything from
teasing people for being gay or for being perceived as gay
to calling them anti-gay names, even in jest, to spreading
rumors about people's sexual orientation for the purpose of
making fun of them to hitting, throwing rocks at, and isolating
people who are believed to be gay.
According to a study in the
Journal of Early Adolescence, such behavior is more than
just a joke — it can have
some serious, negative health effects for the people who
go through it. Like Kayla, people who experience homophobic
bullying are more likely to become depressed, anxious, feel
like they don't belong, and to withdraw from their social
circles.
Read
the full story here.
Download a PDF of this article here.
“Sleeping Separately”
NewsMax Magazine, 07.07
A growing number of Americans are choosing to sleep in bedrooms
seprate from their spouses, according to a recent survey by
the National Association of Home Builders. Poor sleep is a
major health problem. Research links poor sleep to everything
from poor concentration and depression to diabetes, obesity
and alcoholic relapse.
Article available upon request.
“Dealing With Dating Violence”
teenwire.com, 10.03.06
The violence started when Allison (not her real name) was 13. First, the boy
she'd been dating for a year pressured her to have sex with him. Then it got
physical: He pinched her, grabbed her wrists, and threatened to push her off
a concrete wall and into a basement. Allison now thinks the abuse - and the fact
that no one believed her - led to suicidal depression when she was in high school.
Allison is far from alone. A May 2006 study released by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that nearly 1.5 million high school
students - girls and boys - have experienced physical violence in a dating relationship
in the past year. The study also found that teens, like Allison, who experience
violence in their relationships are more likely to consider suicide. Teens who
experience physical violence while dating are also likely to engage in dangerous
dieting behaviors, and use alcohol or other drugs.
Read
the full article here.
Download a PDF of this article here.
“Q&A: Men, Heart Disease and Hypertension”
Ikana Media, 03.06
With Dr. Frank Smart, director of heart failure and cardiac transplants at
the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston,
Texas.
Article available upon request
“After the Abuse”
Choice! Magazine Online,
02.13.06
Based on interviews with 24,000 women in 10 countries,
the WHO found that women who have been abused are twice
as likely as other women to suffer ill health — and
the effects seem to persist long after the violence has
stopped.
Read the full article here.
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