Health Tip – May 30 – Cool Hands, Better Workout
One of the reasons overweight people aren't so crazy about exercising is that their added padding helps raise body temperature making them hot, sweaty...
Word of the Day – May 29 – Minim
Noun: Minim (MIN-im)
Definition:
1. A musical half note
2. Something very minute
3. A unit of liquid capacity equal to 1/60 fluid dram
Sample sentence: The nurse...
Health Tip – May 29 – Get Thinner With Chocolate?
Actress Katherine Hepburn credited her famously slim build to "a lifetime of chocolate," and now a new investigation from California suggests that eating chocolate...
Health Tip – May 28 – Meditation for Stressed Out Care-givers
Patient care is not an easy job. For many of the caregivers for the 5.4 million Alzheimer's patients in the U.S., it leads to...
Word of the Day – May 28 – Insipid
Adjective: Insipid (in-SIH-ped)
Definition:
1. Lacking in taste or savor: tasteless.
2. Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate or challenge.
Sample sentence: The soup was insipid,...
Word of the Day – May 25 – Troubadour
Noun: Troubadour (TROO-buh-dor)
Definition:
1. A lyric poet or musician who performed chiefly in southern France and northern Italy in the 11th through 13th...
Health Tip – May 25 – What to Expect During a Colonoscopy
If you are recommended to have a colonoscopy, don’t worry: it is a 30 to 60 minute, low-risk, common procedure.
Here is what to expect:
1....
Word of the Day – May 24 – Damask
Noun: Damask (Dam-usk)
Definition:
1. A firm lustrous fabric (as of linen, cotton, silk, or rayon) made with flat patterns in a satin weave on...
Health Tip – May 24 – Do You Need a Colonoscopy?
Despite being one of the most preventable and curable cancers, over 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed and over 50,000 people die...
Word of the Day – May 23 – Menagerie
Noun: Menagerie (muh-NAJ-uh-ree)
Definition:
1. A place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition or a collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially...
