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Studies show that many people faced with home loss and housing uncertainty can take a tremendous hit to their health. If you’re going through difficult times, and worried you too may lose your home, what can you do to try to buffer or reclaim your health?

Here are some tips for [...]

1. Will Losing Your Home Kill You?
2. Ten Tips for Changing Health Behaviors (and Saving Lives)
3. Tips To Avoid A Daylight Saving Death!

While the back-to-school news may cover lots of articles about how to treat head lice, there just aren’t very many about how to prevent it. Other than, of course, the tired and true obligatory phrase: “don’t share combs or brushes.” I’m not sure about you, but I don’t see that many kindergartners fluffing and tossing [...]

1. Tips To Avoid A Daylight Saving Death!
2. 5 Tips to Avoid Seasonal Scratchiness
3. Nine Practical Tips on How To Avoid A Death Like Heath Ledger’s

The last two days’ news have made it feel like cocaine week: President Obama finally signed a long-overdue law equalizing mandatory sentencing between powder cocaine and crack cocaine users. On a truly tragic note, a 21 year old UC student is reported to be brain damaged and living on life support after lying for three [...]

Are you tired of discovering that your McNuggets and Silly Putty have more in common than just garish packaging? Are you starting to wonder about how you’ll ever get that jiggly pad of lamprey-fat to detach itself from your formerly shark-sleek sides? Or maybe you’re feeling Lombard-Street short-of-breath…when you stroll along the Marina.

Fireworks!

1. This year’s Health 2.0 Code-A-Thon resulted in some amazing, fresh approaches to health problems
2. Five Things To Do For Your Health – June
3. Health 2.0: Can you game your way to health?

It’s the time of year when spring cleaning actually seems attractive. The sun is sparkling, the windows beg to be opened.

But what if you’ve got so much stuff the whole idea just makes your stomach knot up? What if you’d love to wipe down those walls, but you know you would have to [...]

1. Spring Clean Your Thoughts With Bertha Stuart
2. FDA Finally Cleaning House?

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There’s nothing better than a practical bit of effective help for a health problem. Except when it’s affordable – that’s when the news is superb! When it comes to binge eating, there have been very few effective treatments to offer. And the ones that existed were often long-term and expensive. In [...]

Prescription drug abuse has exploded in the last few years. Rush Limbaugh is perhaps the most famous person to become addicted to them, and commit crimes to obtain them. Corey Haim may (or may not) be the latest in a too-frequent series of celebrities-who-died-too-young from drugs that were obtained from a dealer with an M.D. [...]

1. Four Tips To Save On Prescription Meds
2. Living and dying in the Tenderloin: Substance Abuse and Nate
3. What ARE frankincense and myrrh? Prescription drugs?

We’ve entered a new arena of horror – where our Richter scale, for the first time, doesn’t seem to reach high enough, and adjectives are crumbling under the impact. “Devastation” or “catastrophe”? None of the usual descriptors feel powerful enough.

So as punched-gut news of another urban area implosion reaches you today, this one from [...]

1. Six Lessons I Learned From A Hooker
2. Top 10 Health Lessons of 2009
3. Our Haiti journey: Extreme needs for women in Haiti

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When Avatar-esque aliens finally descend on us from another multi-verse, they will undoubtedly believe that Valentine’s Day celebrates the mating rituals of the svelte, the pristine, the adored, and the orthodontially flawless. In other words, we take a day to honor sex lives of the Photoshopped. Because that’s what you see [...]

1. Nine Practical Tips on How To Avoid A Death Like Heath Ledger’s
2. Flu and you: Science-based practical tips
3. Practical Rage

See, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, so is this column going to be all-Haiti, all the time?

Well, no. After all, health and wellth wait for no human. When the tides of symptoms start to rise, you have to grab whatever life preserver might help.

And so, while I’m in the stage of [...]

1. New Episode of Lost – The Tampon!
2. Lost Tampon: The Music Video
3. The Premiere of The Lost Tampon Video