Nutritionist. Food Coach. How Good Is Advice?
If you feel the need for professional help with your eating habits or diet , you may assume a nutritionist is the person to talk to. As it turns out, that's not a particularly specific or useful term—a point driven home by recent advice published in a magazine from a "nutritionist" who claimed weight loss is aided by eating carbs and protein at separate meals, a notion not supported by science.
Herbal Supplements Don't Always Go Well With Heart Drugs
Herbs and other natural supplements are becoming increasingly commonplace in medicine cabinets as Americans get more proactive about preserving health and defying the diseases of aging. But in some people, pills and extracts often dubbed "all natural" don't play nice, say some experts.
7 People Past 90 With Lots Left to Do
When you talk with people who are nearing or have reached the century mark, still vital, you realize that they have arrived not by running for hours a week on a treadmill, downing vitamins by the handful, or spending their free time in the plastic surgeon's office. They've been too busy living—working, traveling, engaging in creative pursuits, spending time with friends and family, doing with gusto whatever it is that gives them joy.
Lost Your Job? There's Still Time to Get the COBRA Subsidy
Reminder: People who have recently lost their jobs or are laid off this month may be eligible to claim government help with their health-insurance premiums. The right to claim the subsidy, which pays 65 percent of the cost of continuing employee coverage under COBRA, is set to expire at the end of February—though a provision in President Obama's 2011 budget proposes to extend that deadline.
