Wellness

Winged insects flying around your kitchen and house are major annoyances. Pests in your garden and around your property can seem almost impossible to get rid of. In fact, you may be so fed up you are ready to poison your house with some kind of toxic bug-spray or use pesticides to eliminate unwanted insects.

It’s not enough just to eat good food anymore. In order to be healthy, we must be active.

Dr. James A. Levine, Director of Obesity Solutions at the Mayo Clinic, believes that it is the lack of activity that is making us obese. Levine has published studies on how just by moving more, we can lose weight and lower our risk of heart disease and diabetes.

According to his research, just by increasing our activity to include an additional 2 1/2 hours of light activity (walking less than 2 MPH, light housework, etc.) we would lose 36 pounds per year. (2 1/2 hours of walking less than 2 MPH is the equivalent of 10,000 steps, which is what we are doing in the FitBit Challenge.)

Like anything else, overeating is a habit. It’s easy for us food lovers to get fixated on food, and look forward to meal time. Enjoying eating is fine, unless of course you are overeating. Sometimes we eat just because we love to eat, or because we’re bored it’s “something to do”. Or we eat because we think we should (it’s lunchtime, or others are eating).

Lynne Farrow is the author of the important new book, The Iodine Crisis: What You Don’t Know About Iodine Can Wreck Your Life.

Lynne answered some of my questions about the book and her experience recovering from breast cancer with iodine in this two-part interview.

In the wake of the latest terrifying school shooting in Newtown Connecticut, The Washington Post reports that 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza who killed 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut was on pharmaceutical drugs. This has yet to be confirmed. However, it’s important to note that almost every incidence of violence in schools in the past 25 years has been connected to pharmaceutical drugs.