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Healthy & Fit
A new way to move: Four new toning exercises for your routine
Need to shake up your workout?
Nov 16, 2009 | 1:15 am | (0) Comments
Idaho Women's Network tackles health care issues
Wood River Valley residents may join in the health care discussion at the Idaho Women’s Network’s Public Policy Summit on Dec. 5. The summit seeks to bring together state and local experts to discuss health care reform, particularly the ways in which health care issues are affecting w…
Nov 16, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Study adds fuel to fitness, fatness debate
The can-you-be-fit-and-fat debate just got more fuel courtesy of a study presented recently at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in San Diego.
Nov 16, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
'Incredible highs and incredible lows': Ultramarathoners race for themselves
For Andy Jones-Wilkins, 26-mile marathons are short races.
Nov 09, 2009 | 1:15 am | (0) Comments
Do as they do: To stay healthy, follow example of health-care workers
WASHINGTON - "In our environment, we're exposed to communicable diseases every day," says Martin Brown, medical director of Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital's emergency room. Amid coughing, sneezing and ailing patients, hospital workers fight an uphill battle to keep themselves free of col…
Nov 09, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Sorting the bounty of botanical beauty products
NEW YORK - There is such a bounty of botanical-based beauty products, you might think they grow on trees.
Nov 09, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
The age of Nia: Nia combines dance, yoga, martial arts, free movement
KETCHUM - Have you ever just felt like dancing? Not on a dance floor, but through the flowers or across your living room?
Nov 02, 2009 | 1:00 pm | (0) Comments
Despite lack of evidence, some try homeopathy to prevent flu
WASHINGTON - After her son Devin was born last October, Grainne Ostrowski was determined to do whatever she could to protect him from the flu. When he was a few weeks old, Ostrowski, 32, let him suck on the same pellets she had taken during her pregnancy: an over-the-counter drug called I…
Nov 02, 2009 | 12:40 pm | (0) Comments
Wellness speaker emphasizes play
HAILEY - There may be something to that adage: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
Nov 02, 2009 | 12:35 pm | (0) Comments
Bounding up dry hills and dreaming of snow: Ski conditioning, Vamps style
SUN VALLEY - Jazz fans attending Sun Valley's Swing 'n' Dixie Jazz Jamboree this month had front-row seats to watch T-shirt-clad women hauling rocks up and down Dollar Mountain.
Oct 26, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
Dogs at your service
Some of the service dogs Lu and Dale Picard train - and it takes months to train them - are taught to bug you.
Oct 26, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Good for the oceans, good for you
Many savvy consumers are familiar with the color codes that marine conservationists bestow on fish and shellfish, depending on how they're faring in the environment: red for avoid, yellow for consume sparingly and green for eat without guilt.
Oct 26, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
3 agencies to assess problems with Lasik
Three federal agencies - the Food and Drug Administration, the Defense Department and the National Eye Institute - announced this month that they are launching a three-year effort to gauge how many, and which, patients suffer troubling symptoms after undergoing the vision correction proce…
Oct 26, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
Spinning for cash : High school students raise money to move fitness class
Students in Rebecca Wills' Twin Falls High School spinning class get an energetic start to their day.
Oct 19, 2009 | 3:00 am | (0) Comments
Placebo effect isn't in your head
Scientists like to say the placebo effect is all in your head. Turns out, it's actually in your spinal cord.
Oct 19, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments
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