A recently developed model (late 1990s) for assessing early childhood experience as it relates to adult physical and mental health is the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) assessment (Felitti, et al., 1998; get your score here). The ACE scale identifies ten forms of adverse childhood experience (occurring before the age of 18): (1) verbal and emotional … Read more
I’m good with all of that except the pregnant part – that’s not funny. This short article comes from The Atlantic and basically serves as a primer on the health benefits of humor and laughter – including a list of the studies Julie Beck used to write this article. I am a firm believer in … Read more
Driving home from work last night, I heard Kiera Butler, Senior Editor at Mother Jones, on NPR’s All Things Considered, discussing her recent article about her visit to the annual conference of the California Dietetic Association (CDA). What she found is that the dieticians and nutritionists are in bed with the purveyors of the crap … Read more
I’m really busy at the moment (grading finals and term papers), and don’t have time to get into a long introduction to the fantastic TEDTalk presentation below, but suffice it to say that in a time in which the politicization of women’s issues (whether they should have the right to choose or to have or not have … Read more
Whenever new technologies arise, such as the ability to genetically engineer biological organisms, one of the classic luddite objections is that such novelty represents human hubris as we attempt to “play God” and do something “unnatural.” I’ve never quite understood such objections, since we run the risk of “creating life” whenever we have a few … Read more
Cara Agar Tidur Terlelap. Tidur yang berkualitas tentu saja bermanfaat bagi kesehatan. Sayangnya, insomnia perlahan-lahan mulai menjamur di masyarakat. Bahkan, penderitanya terus mengalami peningkatan dan menyerang semua golongan usia. Biar kesehatan Anda tak terganggu akibat kurang tidur, berikut ini beberapa langkah yang bisa Anda lakukan untuk mengurangi serangan insomnia. Berjemur di bawah sinar matahari Pada … Read more
I seriously can’t understand any legitimate reason why issues concerning women’s reproductive health are tearing this country apart (unless this is just a red herring to distract us from other issues). Are we really so insecure that the notion that women should have control over their own bodies frighten us to the point of lunacy? … Read more