Health and Science
How the Repeal of Affordable Care Act Would Affect Asthma, Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Health Coverage
The Center for American Progress, has created a state-by-state map of the states that would lose health provisions if the Affordable Care Act was repealed; their article,Health Reform Helps Millions with Chronic Conditions by Sonia Sekhar follows: Heal… more »
Harvard Med School Healthletter Advice to women about supplements — use selectively
It's an especially bad idea to take extra multivitamins in an effort to ramp up your intake of a single micronutrient. Doing so means you're sure to get too much of other vitamins and/or minerals, which can be harmful. more »
Digging for Roots
It didn’t take my husband long to discover that our fathers were 5th cousins, via an eighteenth century common ancestor. That meant we are sixth cousins, and our three sons are their own 7th cousins (for a while thereafter they took delight in greeting each other with cries of "Cuz!"). more »
Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States; FDA Should Set Standards for Salt Added to Processed Foods and Prepared Meals
But studies connecting high intakes of sodium to high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and other debilitating and deadly conditions show that salt is safe only up to a certain amount. more »
