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AAAAI: 'Tis the Season for Allergic Reactions
With the holiday season just around the corner, millions of Americans are preparing to decorate their homes, gather for feasts and travel to visit relatives. However, for allergy and asthma sufferers, the holiday season presents several potential triggers, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). "Whether it's feasting on holiday meals, setting up your Christmas tree, or visiting your pet-owning relatives, allergy triggers may be lurking inside of our warm, cozy homes this time of year," said Alisa M. Smith, PhD, FAAAAI, vice-chair of the AAAAI's Indoor Allergen Committee. "Unfortunately, with busy schedules, travel time and the stress of the holidays, it is easy to forget to take the proper care when dealing with allergies and asthma. However, avoiding potential triggers and taking the proper precautions is necessary to keep symptoms under control," Smith added.
Independent candidate hopes to replace Davis
Grant writer Lucky Narain, 28, of York County makes a long-shot campaign for the vacant 1st Congressional District seat. Lucky Narain greets workers entering the 50th Street gate to the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard Wednesday. (Dave Bowman, Daily Press / November 21, 2007) .
Eating Right: It's All About Routine
You probably eat certain foods every day. Maybe your routine includes Cheerios at breakfast, a Snickers from the vending machine at midday and two glasses of wine a night.
But you want to feel better, look thinner and live longer. Try swapping those out for some foods that dietitians say you should aim to add to your diet on most days of the week.
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A self-help incentive to employee health
For a guy who started a successful health plan and sold it for hundreds of millions to America's biggest health insurer, Kyle Rolfing is surprisingly down on the industry.Patients just don't trust insurers, Rolfing says.That's why he and other co-founders of Definity Health, now part of UnitedHealth Group Inc., started a new kind of health services company altogether called RedBrick Health. The Minneapolis-based company is not an insurer but it does a lot of things insurers do these days. RedBrick runs health-and-wellness as well as disease-management programs for companies, then translates better employee health to lower monthly premiums."When we built Definity, we recognized trust was an issue," Rolfing said. "We have a different solution now." RedBrick has signed up its first clients: Hannaford Brothers Co., which owns more than 150 grocery stores in the Northeast; Welch Allyn Inc., a medical device manufacturer in New York; and Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia.For CEO Rolfing, it's the next stage in the evolution of so-called consumer-driven health care."It puts more accountability on consumers," he said.RedBrick works with large, self-insured employers and designs incentives for employees to get healthier.
Think For The Memories
I may need to change my long-term goal, which is to make it to retirement, at which time I'd planned to sleep late and loll around until 11, drinking coffee and reading the paper. If I want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, however, I may want to aim higher. Maybe I should work the crossword puzzle, too, and take up a cause — napper's rights? It seems that people with a sense of purpose stand a better chance of warding off the terminal brain disease. That's the conclusion of a study released this month by Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. People who wake up each morning with a sense of duty and dive into their day may increase the neural connections that protect them from the disease. Autopsies of some of the go-getters in the study revealed the same brain lesions that marked Alzheimer's sufferers, yet these people didn't show signs of dementia in life.
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