Sunday, February 22, 2009
The boom has been lowered, the axe has fallen, the pink slip has landed on your desk.
No matter how grim your financial situation may be, you can’t just ignore your bills and creditors. Prompt action is crucial: Let your creditors know you are having difficulties before you begin missing payments.
Financial experts say that when money is tight, you must prioritize what bills need paying first.
Ask yourself Read the rest of this entry »

Dude, what happened?! Did you eat a bowling ball for the holidays? Are you suddenly expecting twins? Yeah, of course it shows. That must be like, what, 10 new pounds you’re trying to hide from the promotion board?
It’s OK. Don’t panic. You can lose the holiday love handles and get yourself back into fighting form in no time.
First off, forget the latest diet’s snake-oil hype and super-slimming, silver-bullet, fat-fighting Read the rest of this entry »

More than 2.6 million American jobs were lost in 2008, and many of those currently unemployed also find themselves without vital medical benefits. Many more also started the New Year in dire financial situation; forced to make difficult decisions on where to make cuts in household budgets.
Sometimes people may consider cuts in areas that will affect their long-term health and wellness. AAA’s Show Your Card & Save program can ease the present financial Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON, England (CNN)
— Use your brain or lose it. That’s the concern that’s fueling a worldwide boom in brain fitness that shows few signs of slowing.
A slew of products, from games like Nintendo’s Brain Age to more sophisticated computer-assisted software, are marketed at consumers worried about losing their mental sharpness.
The brain fitness software market has been growing at a dizzying pace. Worldwide revenue surged to $850 million Read the rest of this entry »

Hackensack, NJ, October 30, 2008 –(
)– BayView Entertainment is proud to announce the first-time retail availability of two new DVDs from New York Times best-selling health and fitness author Joyce Vedral. The DVDs are scheduled to hit the street on December 2, 2008 from BayView Entertainment, one of America’s leading providers of fitness programming. These two new DVDs from one of the most admired and identifiable fitness personalities Read the rest of this entry »

Times Square Center (TSC), one of the newest community oriented shopping center in Dubai, has announced that it is participating in the first Family Health Festival, being held as part of the ongoing Dubai Shopping Festival 2009 activities. In line with this, Times Square Center is organising free health check ups and health counseling from February 05 to February 15, from 4p.m. to 10 p.m. Through this initiative TSC aims to help raise public health Read the rest of this entry »

Taken literally, the idiom “tighten you belt” means it’s time to cut back on your strict bacon diet in lean economic times. A
can help.
The concept, developed by Brooklyn-based
, utilizes a 3-disc adjustment mechanism to dial in the user’s net income and estimated cost of living. The resulting calculation determines where the next hole in the belt will be punched. In other words, it’s a physical representation of how much you need to save—in Read the rest of this entry »

each year allows “thousands” of medical devices onto the market with “only cursory review and with no clear evidence that they help patients.” According to the
, physicians “are free to use those products as they see fit, without telling patients that the devices are not proved.”
“frequently” provides higher Medicare payments to physicians who use such products “as a way to compensate them for the extra time and expense of adopting new procedures,” Read the rest of this entry »

Palo Alto’s Ellin Klor would have a hard time intimidating anyone.
The 58-year-old children’s librarian is of medium height, with a physique that is more couch potato than gym rat — and a demeanor more friendly than frightening. In her free time, she knits.
But three times in the past 15 years, she’s stared down death.
Twice she battled breast cancer and won. Right before her second bout with cancer, she got stabbed in the heart by a knitting Read the rest of this entry »

The hunting lease in West Texas has plenty of sagebrush mixed in with its open ground, rocky canyons and draws choked with brush.
It is desert land, the kind of property that a visitor passing through on the way to somewhere else would consider inhospitable and lifeless.
The desert is many things, but inhospitable and lifeless are not two of them, particularly since the rains returned in July and the open ground now is producing more vegetation Read the rest of this entry »