by Advocate Staff | Feb 6, 2008 | Wellness
Epochs in the Western World seem to have their defining diseases—mysterious, serious ailments that become nexuses of obsession. The plague, tuberculosis, malaria and polio are seared in cultural memory—as are their treatments, their inevitable effects on...
by Sarah Feldberg | Mar 6, 2008 | Wellness
I can’t resist quoting Morrissey on hypochondria and the mind-body connection. His musings on the topic are apt, and appropriately elusive and unequivocal. In the Smiths’ song “Still Ill,” he warbles:“I decreed today that life is simply...
by Stan Cox | Apr 3, 2008 | Wellness
The "vomiting virus" now sweeping across Britain may be spreading. At the same time, San Francisco is being hit with a new strain of the nasty bacterium known as MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus), this one responsible for "flesh-eating...
by Amy Paturel | May 1, 2008 | Wellness
Diet long enough and you're bound to reach a phase where weight loss levels off and the scale is stuck on the same three digits for weeks or more. In fact, researchers from Drexel University find that dieters tend to reach plateaus at week three, week 10 and after...
by Chase Scheinbaum | Jun 5, 2008 | Wellness
Before the 1970s, only extremely health-conscious Americans ate yogurt. But thanks to its purported association with an especially long-lived people of the Caucasus Mountains, yogurt was heralded as a miracle health food and thrust into ubiquity. Some three decades...
