Health & Science

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Holistic Wellness

New column!

By Arlene Brenner

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Holistic health – yoga, relaxation, nutrition, meditation, stress reduction, and more – not too long ago was dismissed as ineffective; it is now rapidly becoming integrated into standard medical practice.

As we offer some insights into this increasingly important aspect of personal health, we will provide resources for further information, and we encourage your feedback.  We can grow together.

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By Fern Sidman

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There is little doubt that childbirth can be an ultimate joy for the woman and her family.  A new life has entered this world, and there is great excitement and awe.

But for some women, the days, weeks and months following childbirth can be a personally painful and daunting time, as they fall victim to unyielding hormonal upheavals that result in "the baby blues" -- postpartum depression and in some rare cases, postpartum psychosis.

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Monday, January 25, 2010

The Bay Parent

Is the nest half-empty or half full?

By Rivki Jungreis

Special to Bay Currents

Many women, after their children have become young adults and fled home to follow lives of their own, experience a sense of purposelessness and a feeling of melancholy. They no longer have anyone dependent on them daily.

Others feel energized by their new sense of freedom, and excited at the thought of embarking on a new job or being able, for the first time, to pursue hobbies or other interests.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

No Place to Look For Life

It's In The Stars

A new, powerful NASA telescope has spotted two new objects in deep space that remain mysterious. They are circling around stars, but at 26,000 degrees Fahrenheit, they’re simply too hot to be mature planets.

The heavenly bodies, viewed by the Kepler telescope launched in March, are even hotter than the stars they orbit. They have much higher temperatures and are larger than any planets in our Solar System, NASA says.

"The universe keeps making strange things stranger than we can think (of) in our imagination," Jon Morse, head of astrophysics for NASA, told the Associated Press.

NASA researcher Jason Rowe -- who discovered the objects through the telescope named for the 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler -- calls them "hot companions."

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