Mad at Work? Don’t Have a Heart Attack

There’s a motto that many folks swear by at work — “Go along to get along” — and it suddenly looks like very bad advice. That’s because new research has found a link between suppressing workplace anger and increased risk for heart attack. In other words, holding anger inside at the office could literally kill… Continue reading Mad at Work? Don’t Have a Heart Attack

The Ultimate Cheapskate’s 5 Big Ways to Save $20,000 a Year

Jeff  Yeager Nearly all of the talk these days about economizing focuses on how to get what we want but pay less for it. It’s all about how to get more for less. For those of us who are longtime advocates of the “simple living” movement, it seems as if most Americans are missing what… Continue reading The Ultimate Cheapskate’s 5 Big Ways to Save $20,000 a Year

The Anticancer Diet

David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   At any given time, the average person might have thousands of cancer cells in his/her body. Individually, these abnormal cells are harmless, but any one of them could potentially proliferate and form a mass of cells (a tumor) that damages normal tissues and can spread… Continue reading The Anticancer Diet

Health Rip-Off Tip-Offs

In our computerized world, crime gets ever more conceptual… as with medical identity theft. This is a type of fraud that occurs when someone “steals” the identity of a person with health insurance and then uses his/her name — and, in the latest twist, insurance coverage — to get treatment that can include doctor visits,… Continue reading Health Rip-Off Tip-Offs

Getting Back to Life After the Death of a Spouse

Phyllis Kosminsky, PhD Center for Hope The death of a spouse is among the greatest sources of grief. We not only lose the person who may be closest to us, we lose the person who most likely helped us function in the world and on whom we depended to help us through life’s traumas. The… Continue reading Getting Back to Life After the Death of a Spouse