Think you know how much butter goes into those mashed potatoes at a restaurant? You’re probably off by half. If you can cook, you not only save money but also gain control over what goes into your meals. Plus, for most women, a man who knows how to cook is as sexy as one who stars in movies. I have trouble boiling water. Thankfully, I’m already married.

Walk, Run, or Lift Weights for 30 Minutes Four Times a Week
Middle-aged men who exercised vigorously for 2 or more hours cumulatively per week had 60 percent less risk of heart attack than inactive men did, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Lose 10 to 20 Pounds
If you’re overweight, dropping 10 to 20 pounds could lower your risk of dying from a first heart attack by 16 percent. Being overweight drives up cholesterol and blood pressure, the precursors to coronary disease. A 10-year Mayo Clinic study found that overweight people had heart attacks 3.6 years earlier than normal-weight people did, and that obese heart-attack patients tended to be 8.2 years younger than normal-weight victims.

Switch from Coffee to Tea
A Dutch study found that people who drank 3 cups of tea a day had half the risk of heart attack of those who didn’t drink tea at all. Potent antioxidants, called flavonoids, in tea may provide a protective effect. more…

You may have heard your granny complain about having sciatica.  It sounds like a foreign food dish but it is actually a painful condition of the body.  Here, the mystery is unraveled.

Actually, the mystery is not so complicated.  Sciatica is a condition of the sciatic nerve in the body.  The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body and it runs from the lower (lumbar region) spine down through the buttocks and the lower leg.  When a person feels pain or discomfort in their sciatic nerve it can radiate from the lower back all the way to their toes.

Have you ever been walking and it seems like your leg just gives out?  That is a problem with your sciatic nerve.  It is a strange phenomenon that happens a lot when a woman is in the later months of pregnancy and the baby is getting very big. more…

Tetanus is also called lockjaw.  It is a condition of the muscles of the body caused by the bacteria Clostridium tetani.  Paralysis begins with the jaw and progresses through the other muscles in the body.  Without treatment it can lead to death.   Immunization is a way to prevent tetanus.

When you are a child, part of the required immunization series includes a tetanus shot.  It is usually grouped in with diphtheria and pertussis shots to create one vaccine (DTP or DtaP) for all three childhood conditions.  After the series of shots is over, it is recommended that a booster be given every ten years to keep the antibodies circulating and fighting any future tetanus bacterium incidents.

Immunizations are used as preventative measures to stop the outbreak of childhood illnesses that were big at the turn of the century and earlier.  It is almost unthinkable now that kids would die of mumps, measles or other conditions that have become controlled through vaccination.  That wasn抰 always the case.

Tetanus is a little different from the other conditions in that it can still be contracted today – not just by kids but adults as well.  Whenever you get cut on a rusty nail or a piece of fencing, everyone says to go to the doctor and get a tetanus shot to keep lockjaw away.  The reason for this is not the rusty nail but the dirt that surrounds it. more…