MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Wash Post Health' source. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:51:40 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5669223&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D63e433b0b42f01715bce0b5652df3208 “Peripheral Vascular Disease” A presentation by cardiologist Joseph Quash Jr. Lunch provided. Friday, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Providence Hospital, 1150 Varnum St. NE. 202-269-7553. Free. “Eating for a Lifetime” Presentations by a health-supportive chef and an oncology nurse. With shopping tips, tastings and recipe distribution. Saturday, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, 1632 U St. NW. 202-483-8600. smithcenter.org. $30. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5669223 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:15:47 +0100 5669223 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5668522&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D721d38910e87c94121556233e9769d46 Al-Anon/Alateen groups A fellowship of families and friends of alcoholics. For meeting times and locations, visit www.alanonva.com. 703-534-4357. Free. Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Weight-loss support with weekly weigh-ins. For meeting times and locations, visit www.tops.org. 703-430-3764. Annual membership, $28. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5668522 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:11:57 +0100 5668522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5668523&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd780023ffd87dc46f1212615f2243901 “Laugh yoga” for seniors Improve flexibility and balance. Thursday and Feb. 16, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Leesburg Senior Center, 102 North St. 703-737-8039. Free. Blood drive Thursday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Patrick Henry College, One Patrick Henry Cir., Purcellville. 540-338-1776. 800-733-2767. www.phc.edu. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5668523 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:09:02 +0100 5668523 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5667766&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D851d052d6a7a5cdf671087303fe4d668 “Better Bones” classes For seniors, reduce bone loss and improve balance and flexibility. Thursdays and Mondays at 2 p.m., Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Rd., Silver Spring. 301-754-8800 (Holy Cross Hospital). Free; registration required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5667766 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:01:33 +0100 5667766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5647968&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D8ecdc57e299cabcb0ff4b26b6a41e9af Diverticulitis program A “Lunch and Learn” program on risk factors, testing, diagnosis and treatment. Thursday, noon-1 p.m., Calvert Memorial Hospital, 100 Hospital Dr., Prince Frederick. 410-535-8233. $10. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5647968 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:31:43 +0100 5647968 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5647970&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3D7e96235d1de08158b7f9f00561b63421%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5647970 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:31:02 +0100 5647970 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5647969&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D7e96235d1de08158b7f9f00561b63421 Overeaters Anonymous meeting “Meditation and Writing” session. Thursdays 7 a.m., St. Benedict Monastery, 9535 Linton Hall Rd., Bristow. 703-361-0106, 703-754-9237 or www.oanova.org. Free. Grief support group Thursdays 7 p.m., Occoquan Bible Church, 3700 Old Bridge Rd., Woodbridge. 703-878-4673. Free. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5647969 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:31:02 +0100 5647969 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5646440&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Ddf5ad4827b015671b1433153ee16459a Breast-feeding support group For mothers and babies. Thursdays, 10-11 a.m., Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Fairfax Women’s Center, seventh floor, 3300 Gallows Rd., Falls Church. 703-776-6455. Parkinson’s aquatics exercise class Thursdays and Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Woodlands Retirement Community, 4320 Forest Hill Dr., Fairfax. 703-378-7221. www.parkinsonfoundation.org. $10; care partners, $5; registration required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5646440 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:37:33 +0100 5646440 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5646441&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3De5eb6aca43cd21c1dc02e7c13374086b Long-term-care ombudsman Call to receive help in resolving complaints made by or for residents of long-term-care facilities. 703-324-5861. Speech-and-hearing screenings For age 3 and older. Thursday, Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center, 19465 Deerfield Ave., Suite 201, Lansdowne. 703-858-7620. Free; appointments required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5646441 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:14:06 +0100 5646441 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5646272&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Ddd426a395aac59f111f9b587d036eff3 Tai chi chuan class For beginners, gentle exercises that emphasize balance and flexibility, led by Fred Nee and A.M. Carey. Thursdays at 10 a.m., Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Rd., Silver Spring. 240-777-8086. Free. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5646272 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:51:00 +0100 5646272 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5646167&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D62d3c5c636286b7051f26d6b56471e9e Memory-loss support group For anyone living with the problem. There will be break-out groups for patients and caregivers. Thursday, 10-11:30 a.m., Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-895-9448, Ext. 4. $15; reservations required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5646167 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:43:26 +0100 5646167 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5643998&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc74d96c74d43c26269052fa0a4358f06 Let’s say your job is to take off at a sprint, get moving about 20 mph and slam yourself full speed into a brick wall — 60 times in a single afternoon. We’d give you a helmet and lots of padding to protect yourself. Because of the toll this would take on your body, we’d make you do it only once a week. And we’d reward you handsomely. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5643998 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:32:34 +0100 5643998 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5646273&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D5ca205d90753fe0a8ca7ebe8e1eb5379 “Men in Black” was flickering on the screen, and Laura Cossolotto and her husband were enjoying a rare night at the movies in their home town of Centerville, Iowa, when her brother-in-law rushed into the darkened theater. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5646273 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:29:04 +0100 5646273 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5642919&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D5ca205d90753fe0a8ca7ebe8e1eb5379 “Men in Black” was flickering on the screen, and Laura Cossolotto and her husband were enjoying a rare night at the movies in their home town of Centerville, Iowa, when her brother-in-law rushed into the darkened theater. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5642919 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:29:04 +0100 5642919 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5644441&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D0f2447c8e59886bde4998c13bee76946 “Surviving After Suicide” support group For family members and friends who have lost a loved one. Sponsored by Action in Community Through Service (3900 ACTS Lane, Dumfries). Thursdays; call for time and location. 703-368-4141. Free. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5644441 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:45:24 +0100 5644441 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5644442&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D9192553e62ccde8cbff7c765d3dd8b16 “Laugh yoga” for seniors Improve flexibility and balance. Thursday and Feb. 2, 9:30-10:30 a.m., Leesburg Senior Center, 102 North St. 703-737-8039. Free. Hearing loss outreach Information and referrals. Walk-ins welcome. Thursday, 10 a.m.-noon, Loudoun County WorkForce Center, 102 Heritage Way, Leesburg. 703-430-2906. Free. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5644442 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:25:31 +0100 5644442 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5644443&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D65245d1b4574709851c451e9b53332ed Breast-feeding support group For mothers and babies. Thursdays 10-11 a.m., Inova Fairfax Hospital, Women’s Center, seventh floor, 3300 Gallows Rd., Falls Church. 703-776-6455. Free. Parkinson’s aquatics exercise class Thursdays and Tuesdays 10:30-11:30 a.m., Woodlands Retirement Community, 4320 Forest Hill Dr., Fairfax. 703-378-7221. www.parkinsonfoundation.org. $10; care partners, $5; registration required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5644443 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:40:06 +0100 5644443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5644444&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dab852ed95175e5f26a10d63c6b3c42aa Tai chi chuan class For beginners, gentle exercises that emphasize balance and flexibility, led by Fred Nee and A.M. Carey. Thursdays at 10 a.m., Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Rd., Silver Spring. 240-777-8086. Free. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5644444 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:29:08 +0100 5644444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5644445&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Df5f2c409cf9ec7e50d7afb8777118a07 Sensory enhancement workshop Artist-in-residence George Smith-Shomari talks about how appreciation of the creative process can stimulate and sharpen the senses. Bring lunch and a beverage. Thursday 12:30 p.m., Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-895-9407. www.iona.org. Free; reservations requested. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5644445 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:01:36 +0100 5644445 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5626319&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D34aa54f3a0078016bc08660e4f60f20e When people ask me to list my favorite healthy foods, quinoa always tops the list. And not just because the National Restaurant Association named it the hottest trend in side dishes in 2010. My boys think I like quinoa because when it was first discovered it was named “the mother grain.” Yes, I am proud to be a mother myself, but check out all the real reasons I love quinoa (pronounced “KEEN-wah”). Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5626319 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:49:19 +0100 5626319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5603948&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D6b4486d473cb7c96a445418fd3c591c6 This is it. This is the year you finally get in shape, shed those pounds or meet that fitness pledge you made at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31. But do you have to build the new you in a hot, stuffy gym, cheek by jiggly jowl with a dozen other sweaty resolutionaries awaiting their turn on the elliptical machine? Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5603948 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:00:58 +0100 5603948 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602805&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D2fcf1a100cc9db575c6475cd121cc1f1 Breast cancer support group For patients and survivors to share their thoughts, feelings and ideas for better quality of life. Thursday at 5 p.m. and the third Thursday of each month, Providence Hospital, Wellness Institute, 1150 Varnum St. NE. 202-269-7543. Free. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602805 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:25:30 +0100 5602805 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602807&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3D615780928062a1a45f847acb5994467c%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602807 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:23:25 +0100 5602807 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602806&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D615780928062a1a45f847acb5994467c Parkinson’s aquatics exercise class Thursdays and Tuesdays 10:30-11:30 a.m., Woodlands Retirement Community, 4320 Forest Hill Dr., Fairfax area. 703-378-7221. www.parkinsonfoundation.org. $10; care partners, $5; registration required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602806 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:23:25 +0100 5602806 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602808&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D931a3a8fd9898f55a3cea206f992f55c Hearing loss outreach information and referrals. Walk-ins welcome. Thursday 10 a.m.-noon, Loudoun County Senior Center at Cascades, 21060 Whitfield Pl., Sterling. 703-430-2906. Free. Loudoun CHADD support Led by the group Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Thursday at 7 p.m., Leesburg Town Office, 25 W. Market St., Leesburg. 703-669-2445. Free. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602808 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:22:48 +0100 5602808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602809&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Ddd8be0bdb02fb9ef32ba0d2876bdad2a Overeaters Anonymous meditation and writing meeting Thursdays at 7 a.m., St. Benedict Monastery, 9535 Linton Hall Rd., Bristow. 703-361-0106. 703-754-9237. www.oanova.org. Free. Parkinson’s exercise class Thursdays and Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 p.m., Greenbriar Community Center, 4615 Stringfellow Rd., Chantilly. 703-378-7221. $10; care partners, $5; registration required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602809 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:18:55 +0100 5602809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602810&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D0875bc67df97dce02bcc55f3dbe84c61 Maryland legal aid seminar Information on Medicare, medical assistance, access to health care, exploitation, neglect and available resources. For age 50 and older. Thursday 1-3 p.m., Laurel-Beltsville Senior Activity Center, 7120 Contee Rd., Laurel. 301-206-3355. Free; registration required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602810 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:17:36 +0100 5602810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602811&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D167993a0b35db25c02f64826b946813b Diabetes support group Call for dates and times. Thursday at Northern Senior Activity Center, 29655 Charlotte Hall Rd., Charlotte Hall. 301-475-4002. Free. Weight management and physical training Includes measurements, analysis and a complete look at your body composition. Thursday by appointment only, St. Mary’s Hospital, 25500 Point Lookout Rd., Leonardtown. 301-475-6109. 301-475-8981. $15. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602811 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:15:47 +0100 5602811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5600287&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D38e5fe53a61d2a5dc938046d4c9485f5 Friendly Visitor volunteer registration Volunteers are needed to visit lonely and frail elderly people who live in their own homes or in assisted-living facilities in Montgomery County. The time commitment is one hour each week. Interested candidates can apply to attend an orientation on Feb. 15 or March 14. Mental Health Association of Montgomery County, 1000 Twinbrook Pkwy., Rockville. 301-424-0656, Ext. 507. cwanner@mhamc.org. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5600287 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:41:58 +0100 5600287 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5598294&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D42b8e4d0cf715a3090eea72edd6597f5 Seniors walking program Thursday and Tuesday 8-9 a.m., Ballston Common Mall, 4238 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. 703-558-6859. Free. Tennis groups Play in Arlington courts at Bluemont Park (601 N. Manchester St.) and Quincy Park (1021 N. Quincy St.). For age 55 and older. Thursday-Friday and Monday-Wednesday 8 a.m.-noon. 703-228-4745. Free with 55+ pass; registration required. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5598294 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:56:00 +0100 5598294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5577606&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D791df5fe2b4f6c1c94766521742e5e97 I’m not saying my co-workers are fat. In fact, a fair number of them are toothpick skinny — including, unfairly, the guy who brings in his latest cupcake creation every other day. Many of them are also super-active, always running, biking and yoga-ing in their free time. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5577606 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:08:19 +0100 5577606 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5557875&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Db6a052d33aeeda00437d7308c0777943 Listen up, ladies, because it’s confession time, and as you may know, this is not my gender’s forte. So let’s get this over with: Although we are bigger, stronger and faster than you are, we must acknowledge that when it comes to flexibility, most of us are pretty much outclassed. We aren’t built like you, and we don’ t bend like you do. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5557875 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:34:00 +0100 5557875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5521394&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D8e62bb9edc6ad3f9de76989d0301a0ce To give you a sense of what you’re up against if you attempt to make it through P90X2, the sequel to the phenomenally popular P90X fitness program, here’s a sample exercise: the four medicine ball push-up. Yes, that means having a ball under each hand and foot. “It’s like doing push-ups during an earthquake,” says Tony Horton, the 53-year-old former stand-up comedian who created the original program eight years ago. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5521394 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:52:20 +0100 5521394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5521259&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3Dcf99c97abbdf1571a156a080ab88ad94%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5521259 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:28:17 +0100 5521259 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5521258&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dcf99c97abbdf1571a156a080ab88ad94 Jan. 1 is still a few days away, but it’s not too early to start thinking about ways to make 2012 your most healthful year yet. I touched base with some of the folks I interviewed for this column during 2011 to ask them about their plans for the coming year. Here are some of their resolutions for eating, drinking and being healthful through the holiday season and beyond. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5521258 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:28:17 +0100 5521258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5598295&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D0d920a5633679595f2331e55c502ae42 Silvia Bacot had devised a strategy for coping with her steadily worsening eyesight. As she walked down the hall of the suburban Maryland federal building where she works as a medical researcher, Bacot would say, “Hi, how are you?” to everyone she passed, worried that if she didn’t she might inadvertently snub someone she knew but couldn’t see. She always sat in the front row at lectures and close to the screen in movies. At crowded scientific meetings she tried to seem unwaveringly approachable, peering and squinting at name tags when their wearers got close enough. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5598295 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:01:00 +0100 5598295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5496171&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Ddc3d8482ee2871e406bdbd3dda910da3 By tradition in our part of town, one family hosts the spaghetti dinner before each high school track meet. Our high school always has a large team, and when it was our turn one evening a number of years ago, the scene in my home was predictable. Kids everywhere: on the couches, in the chairs, in the basement, on the stairs, splayed out across every inch of floor space. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5496171 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:23:01 +0100 5496171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5496170&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D351cb4135daeaa923bd419bebed70f46 Remember last year when I pledged to lose 10 pounds — and keep them off — before I turned 50? I was pleased to accomplish that “Me Minus 10” goal (and then some) and enjoyed feeling super-skinny for a while. Now it’s a year later. I’ve just turned 51. And while I’d love to report that I never saw those excess pounds again, that’s not exactly the case. The truth is, my weight has gone up and down by a few pounds here and there over the past year. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5496170 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:12:46 +0100 5496170 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5475832&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Daa6879614e29da6d9605c0e2e92035be The day before Thanksgiving, you were probably thinking about doing some damage to a plate of turkey and mashed potatoes. At Headbangers Boxing Gym in Southeast Washington, brothers Lamont and Anthony Peterson had very different opponents in mind. They’ve been preparing for Dec. 10, when the Walter E. Washington Convention Center will host HBO’s first live boxing event in the city since 1993. Lamont, 27, will take on British champ Amir Khan for the International Boxing Federation/World Boxing Association light welterweight title in the most anticipated showdown of the evening. Also fighting that night are Anthony, a 26-year-old lightweight, and 29-year-old Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell, of Brandywine, who’s trying to maintain his undefeated streak as a heavyweight. Read full article &gt... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5475832 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:22:36 +0100 5475832 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5475833&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D2c6647bfa927599279089b40fe4f47a9 It’s here. That year-end onslaught of cookies, candy, cakes and calories. Who better to offer weight-control advice, I thought, than people who have lost a lot of weight and kept it off? I spoke with three Washington area residents: Herbert Walker, 49, of Frederick has lost more than 51 pounds. Dawn Williams, 44, of Lexington Park has lost 205 pounds. And Sam Hardman, 32, of Fairfax has lost 85 pounds. Walker and Williams are in the TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Club, a support group for those trying to lose weight. Hardman lost his weight largely with a commercial meal-replacement plan called Medifast. Here are some lessons they have learned to keep from backsliding, especially this time of year. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5475833 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:07:29 +0100 5475833 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5454616&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D54fa586c53fd98f8db5a0c308cd529be A gift to yourselfOne of the best ways to avoid gaining weight during the holiday eating season is to ramp up your exercise regimen. Yeah, right? Chalene Johnson knows it’s hard to squeeze exercise into your December schedule. But she’s convinced that even the most overwhelmed among us can make it happen. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5454616 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:18:25 +0100 5454616 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5598296&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D082fcd8042b9d3ec6f6863a3e0663525 For years before the identity of her long-standing problem was revealed, Hannah Love’s family had its own name for the periodic, disabling episodes: “Hannah’s stomach thing.” The attacks, which first struck when she was 3, would gradually progress from discomfort to a crescendo of sharp pains to an abdomen so swollen she could not bear the touch of clothing. Nausea and vomiting invariably followed. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5598296 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:50:24 +0100 5598296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5433053&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da3a8d3ef1482477a8c8f2e1465d44757 Befuddled home cooks all know to dial 1-800-BUTTERBALL when they have trouble taming their turkeys. But for many of us, the problem with Thanksgiving isn’t stuffing your bird — it’s stuffing yourself. So Washington Sports Clubs, along with its sister companies in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, is launching another hotline: 1-855-I-AM-FULL. Live operators will be available between 3 p.m. Wednesday until 11:59 p.m. Friday to help callers navigate the sea of gravy boats and strained relationships that can contribute to holiday weight gain. (And they’ll sweeten the deal by offering a free one-week gym pass.) Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5433053 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:28:11 +0100 5433053 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5433052&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D4e75cb16383fceeb2d840d19b192ab87 Years ago, my husband and I hosted a holiday party. We thought we had put together a nice array of food. But midway through I noticed a guest whom I hadn’t known very long surveying the spread with skepticism. Turned out she was a vegetarian, and, to my dismay, our holiday table had little to offer her. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5433052 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:18:49 +0100 5433052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5406129&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc130c6a6c8a494db263b3753a6b2bbe4 Before I sat down to write this column, I zipped into the Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through to get a cup of iced black coffee, my favorite fuel. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a toddler, when my folks would allow me to add milk and sugar to the dregs in their yellow plastic mugs and sip it down. Drinking coffee in college made me feel sophisticated; pots of strong brew kept me awake through the writing of my master’s thesis and hundreds of other documents. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5406129 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:29:39 +0100 5406129 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5406128&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D753007e2b0a2c3a246c716d2726904e5 Last Thanksgiving Day, when 31.9 million people watched the New Orleans Saints play the Dallas Cowboys, 10.75 million of them were women. Overall, 44 percent of the National Football League’s fans are women. If you follow the sport, this is no revelation. The football widow is an anachronism; girls and women populate stadiums and sports bars, and have for years. In a recent Washington Post survey of D.C. sports fans, 53 percent of this area’s women said they care about the NFL, and 25 percent said they care “a great deal.” Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5406128 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:11:00 +0100 5406128 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5383786&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D6775cd227a1e2be203aa6509004b4235 Ever heard the one about the woman who walks into a barre? If not, that’s about to change as the city’s fitness scene makes room for ballet-inspired exercise classes. That doesn’t mean it’s time to dust off your old tutu. These lessons aren’t designed to land you a starring role in “The Nutcracker,” but rather to help you look like you could by borrowing dancers’ strengthening and stretching techniques — while using their favorite prop. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5383786 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:56:58 +0100 5383786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5383787&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D19e769cfbd9715ca34db73851442d46b The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him “WILD THING!” and Max said, “I’LL EAT YOU UP!,” and was sent to bed without eating anything. I have read Maurice Sendak’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” to my kids dozens of times. But I never stopped to think about what it means to send a kid to bed without eating, especially as a punishment for making mischief. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5383787 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:49:10 +0100 5383787 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5362152&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc74ad8958e3b1de856caa4e4763f3a0f Some things should go without saying. But sometimes we need to say them anyway. Here are two: You can’t stop exercising as you grow older. And if you’re 50 or so, and you’ve never adopted a fitness regimen, you’d better start. Both ideas seem so blindingly obvious, so utterly axiomatic for the self-involved baby boom generation of which I am part, that I’m still not sure why anyone needs to be reminded. But the numbers tell a different story. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5362152 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:19:00 +0100 5362152 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5362099&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D810f24f9e7297ff75f3aed44a028f3de Produce: Sweet potatoesWith Thanksgiving just around the bend, it was easy selecting this month’s produce: sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes (and yams, which are botanically quite different but culinarily interchangeable) have a lot going for them, says Jennifer R. Reilly, a D.C.-based registered dietitian, who blogs about nutrition and has just published “Cooking With Trader Joe’s Cookbook: Skinny Dish!” Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5362099 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:02:07 +0100 5362099 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5346248&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D137f11a86b0ff3de699365cf28eb5564 I have struggled with sugar for most of my life. My mom recalls finding candy wrappers under my bed when I was a kid. I’d think nothing of devouring a whole bag of candy corn around this time of year. These days my sweet tooth has morphed into a wine tooth; most of the sugar I consume comes from sauvignon blanc, and the thought of eating candy corn sets my teeth on edge. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5346248 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:43:32 +0100 5346248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5346250&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3Db0fcb6fe30aa38040aab2e29e7a3fefb%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5346250 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:34:00 +0100 5346250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5346249&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Db0fcb6fe30aa38040aab2e29e7a3fefb If your friend who’s running the Marine Corps Marathon posts to Facebook in the middle of the race, don’t be that impressed. Sure, running 26.2 miles is hard, but it’s not tough for participants to multitask when they’ve signed up for the free social media messaging service debuting at Sunday’s event. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5346249 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:34:00 +0100 5346249 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5329380&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D5b859da4786a23d8a3a672b407fef3a0 Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5329380 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:29:45 +0100 5329380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5329379&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd91dfc5588d7e3295436e189dd612e66 Out of the darkness they come, each more bone-weary than the next. Like refugees drifting into a U.N. camp, they know there is only so much here to relieve their misery: tents constructed of white tarps on metal poles, food, something to drink, perhaps a change of clothes or a place to sit. But this tiny rest stop is much better than what they have left behind for the moment. Out there is only blackness — lit faintly by a gibbous moon and the pinpoint beams of their headlamps — and mile after mile after mile of pavement. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5329379 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:02:00 +0100 5329379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5598297&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Db04419332e732664c5498a621bbfe7a2 Through the haze of exhaustion and elation that often characterizes the first disorienting weeks of motherhood, Karen Good felt something else: a gnawing fear for her own health. Good, then 41, had given birth to a healthy baby boy shortly after Christmas 2007. Her son was delivered four weeks early because she had developed preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine. In most cases the remedy is delivery; once the baby is born the mother’s blood pressure usually returns to normal. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5598297 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:22:35 +0100 5598297 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5310942&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Ddac6af8d209ee3af5be743c6c086ac84 I’m finally getting used to walking past my daughter’s silent bedroom, to setting one less place at the dinner table, to talking with her more via Skype than in person. For her, the giddiness of first-time independence and meeting new friends at college has been tempered by the realities of grades, head colds and looming midterms. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5310942 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:39:20 +0100 5310942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5310941&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc278e37fea80b5383f98afdff29fc067 “You have nothing to do,” instructor Susan Young reminded her yoga students last week as they lay on their backs in savasana. And at that moment, she was right — no one in the room was responsible for doing anything other than enjoying the peaceful sensation of being in a yoga position known as relaxation pose. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5310941 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:29:47 +0100 5310941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5282336&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc8d1a720f8c9c67c6fc16890e9bdb321 By Jennifer LaRue HugetFlu shotsThere’s lots of good news on the flu-shot front this year. Starting with the needle: It’s now “shallower,” says Jeff Dimond, spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and delivers the vaccine under the skin rather than into the muscle. This might make it less painful for some, especially those whose fear of the pain intensifies with the size of the needle. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5282336 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:40:18 +0100 5282336 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5258066&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Df1b58fd088f9022f5420bda596b993a8 The dietary zeitgeist favors foods that are “whole” and “local” over those that are “processed” and “packaged.” But omitting processed, packaged foods can make it hard to meet your body’s dietary needs. And although not all processed foods are of equal quality, the best of them can deliver lots of nutrition without doing you any harm. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5258066 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:25:26 +0100 5258066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5258067&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd5dce609ca53b615c80128fa31ddfbc7 Every time Cultural Tourism DC presents its annual smorgasbord of free walking tours all over the city, I try to figure out how many I can manage to pack into just two days. But this year I don’t have to do that — because the WalkingTown DC/BikingTown DC program expanded from a single weekend to nine days. It started this past weekend and continues through Sunday, presenting nearly 200 chances to take a scholarly stroll (or roll, in the case of the dozen bike tour options) through all eight of Washington’s wards. To keep numbers manageable, some popular walks require advance reservations, but most of them are open to anyone who shows up. For every tour, the schedule lists fitness level, which is calculated based on the distance and terrain. Options range from a few blocks to several ... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5258067 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:05:11 +0100 5258067 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5598298&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dac3664c71d2177b949f4ba18b9588b2d Christina Teague barely had time to react as her son, Will, lunged for the door of her car full of children, trying to wrench it open while yelling frantically, “I’ve got to get out!” Teague managed to pull to the side of the winding country road near their Charlottesville home as Will, nearly 8, leapt out of the car. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5598298 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:51:04 +0100 5598298 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5235532&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd642271b782d92fee01f232b2f88f9d9 The name Bobby Flay isn’t exactly synonymous with healthful eating. The Food Network star/restaurateur/celebrity chef is better known for his big juicy burgers than for figure-friendly meals. And you won’t find calorie counts on the menu at his growing chain, Bobby’s Burger Palace. But Flay himself has slimmed down over the past year or so, losing, by his estimate, 10 or 15 pounds. He didn’t do it by joining Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers, a la other celebrities. He whittled his waist by making a surprisingly few, surprisingly simple lifestyle changes. At 5 foot 11 inches, Flay weighs 172 pounds. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5235532 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:45:00 +0100 5235532 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5235531&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D8e02b837822e017a07fd2fe20980f040 I was running on the Mall one beautiful evening a few weeks ago, when I was nearly stopped in my tracks by a big yellow sign: “We’re Hiring.” In this economy, the sheer novelty of a private-sector job offer can stun you to a standstill. But when I realized that the prospective employment came from National Pedicabs, one of three companies whose drivers traverse parts of the city, I had a true epiphany. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5235531 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:22:58 +0100 5235531 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215112&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dcad141f8e0c434408db51e65f41eb512 Jane Brodsky desperately wanted to run again. But whenever the Capitol Hill resident attempted to jog, the osteoarthritis in her left leg complained. She was hoping she’d finally found her solution one year ago when she bought a pair of Vibram FiveFingers, the sock-like shoe with articulated toes that’s developed a reputation for helping users mimic running barefoot. The brand’s fans convinced her that with a more natural stride, the pain would subside. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215112 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:29:12 +0100 5215112 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215111&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D815b00c4952ad066d62f383bc2ae1e3c There’s no question that maintaining a nutritious diet can help keep your body healthy. But when it comes to which foods can specifically benefit which body parts, science remains surprisingly sketchy. For all the hype about the health benefits of, say, antioxidants and probiotics, a scan of the scientific literature reveals how much we don’t know. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215111 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:24:22 +0100 5215111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5195938&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dff87392092234dcca47aa942ebc14a35 One way to pretend it’s still summer all through September is to eat lots of raspberries, whose season extends into October. It’s obvious why you should eat them: They’re delicious, right? But they’re also really good for you. Angela Ginn, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, says red raspberries are full of antioxidant phytonutrients, particularly tannin, which gives them their purplish hue. (White and black raspberries, she says, are nutritious but don’t have tannin.) Tannin may help protect against some cancers and macular degeneration, she says. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5195938 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:58:00 +0100 5195938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5195937&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D459da19199f29a92d98ec48c7e8bfa9b It’s no longer news that working out during pregnancy is not just harmless but helpful for most healthy women. Countless moms-to-be are running, doing yoga and Pilates or taking exercise classes designed specifically for them. British marathoner Paula Radcliffe ran at a level many of us would envy until the day before she delivered a healthy daughter in 2007. Women who are in shape have fewer problems during delivery, and their children tend to start life healthier than the newborns of obese women. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5195937 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:53:00 +0100 5195937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5176766&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd60d83b6b6e267fcc7950097ce0a4a07 Baltimore’s most famous race is the Preakness. But with the inaugural Grand Prix this weekend, the city will witness a very different kind of horsepower. The three-day event is the first of its kind in the region, and a chance for car-racing fans to get an up-close look at the fastest folks in the sport. To turn downtown streets into a two-mile track suitable for cars zooming at speeds of 150 mph took a lot of time and effort. The same was required on the part of the drivers in those cars, according to Jim Leo, owner of Pit Fit Training, an Indianapolis gym that specializes in keeping drivers and pit crews in good shape. “If a driver shows up and halfway into the race isn’t able to drive, he’s letting down his team and the fans,” says Leo, who’s worked with about 20 of the comp... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5176766 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:52:44 +0100 5176766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5176768&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3D026dec381845712fcec52db638d0bf49%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5176768 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:33:34 +0100 5176768 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5176767&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D026dec381845712fcec52db638d0bf49 On Thursday, McDonald’s begins rolling out its new Happy Meals that feature apple slices as standard fare, not just by special request. The move is intended to provide kids with a more nutritious meal and thus, perhaps, to make a dent in the national obesity epidemic. With about 220 million Happy Meals sold in the United States last year, according to a Reuters estimate, the apple growers of America are understandably thrilled. But are apples the answer to our nation’s nutrition woes? I started eating an apple a day last year during my Me Minus 10 weight-loss effort. My breakfast is monotonous but reliable: I slice an apple (usually a Red Delicious) and eat it with some protein-packed peanut butter, and a glass of skim milk on the side. It’s tasty, nutrient-rich and satisfying. Rea... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5176767 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:33:34 +0100 5176767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5598299&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc82d26b49ee83f08a76643c85ce8f016 Right away the obstetrician knew that something was very wrong. Morgan McElhinney weighed just over five pounds and had a head that was abnormally long and narrow. Her muscle tone was worrisomely floppy, and her cry unusually weak. Doctors at Frederick Memorial Hospital let Lisa Simonson McElhinney hold her newborn briefly before whisking her off to the neonatal intensive care unit. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5598299 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:28:35 +0100 5598299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5146860&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D8cf13821c956d75d692b5c9bea039bad In an ideal world, no one would need dietary supplements. Our balanced diets would provide all the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients our bodies need. Alas, the world of American eating is far from ideal. And that, some nutrition experts and supplement advocates argue, is why we need dietary supplements. The latest federal data show that more than half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements, mostly multivitamins. But do we really need all those pills? Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5146860 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:33:59 +0100 5146860 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5146859&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd2602bc4825df93617917c37ed053a3f The hitters approach Tim O’Brien sheepishly after he has made them look foolish — bewildered them with off-speed stuff or slipped a deceptively fast third strike past them on one corner or the other. Thirty-five years his junior, young and proud of their hitting skills, they want to know about the white-haired gent on the mound who has shown them up again. “I’ve had so many guys come up to me after the game,” O’Brien says with a chuckle. “ ‘Sir, I mean no disrespect, but how old are you?’” Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5146859 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:21:16 +0100 5146859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5132220&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D36d72b16208c703738f6000fbcdd0f5f The first time gymgoers hear the word “burpee,” they laugh. Then they learn what that word means and they groan. Often used interchangeably with “squat thrust,” it refers to an exercise combining a squat with a push-up, two of the most effective body weight movements out there. Pair them together, and you have an overall strength builder guaranteed to leave you out of breath in seconds. That’s why in the fitness world these days, the burpee is king. It’s raising heart rates at boot camps, martial arts classes, personal training sessions and, most of all, at CrossFit facilities. The international network of gyms that promote back-to-basics techniques for “forging elite fitness” have elevated the exercise into a must-do for its athletes. Read full article >> (Source: ... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5132220 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:32:11 +0100 5132220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5108114&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc798c747466147ca50db6a82b44d667a There’s some debate over whether kids need to snack as often as they do. But kids don’t care about debates: When they get home from school, they’re ravenous and ready to eat. Here’s a week’s worth of quick and healthful snack ideas, courtesy of Marisa Moore, registered dietitian and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Serve any of these with low-fat milk (or low-fat chocolate milk, once in a while) or sparkling water with a citrus wedge. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5108114 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:30:03 +0100 5108114 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5108115&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dfea8012365a474e3dbb734d10eebb42a When the bell rings on the first day of school at Oak Hill Elementary in Severna Park, 9-year-old Katie Ours will already be here, in a large warehouse that has been converted to a modern gymnastics facility in nearby Odenton. As her former classmates settle behind their desks Aug. 23, bubbling with the excitement and anxiety of a new school year, the tiny fourth-grader will be stretching and bending, leaping and flipping — a top student embarking on a very different kind of educational journey. Along with seven other girls about the same age, youngsters who more or less have become her extended family, Katie will be here at Win-Win Gymnastics until 2:30 p.m. every day, five days a week, pursuing her dream of athletic glory. Then she and the others will go to school, at their homes. Read... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5108115 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:25:24 +0100 5108115 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5093992&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Db51a3f082d33b40fbd6592f25f598955 Washington Consumers’ Checkbook is an advertising-free nonprofit organization that rates services such as tree care and car repair, and professionals such as doctors and plumbers. For the next two weeks, Checkbook is giving readers of The Washington Post free access to its full advice and ratings on 234 area outlets for eyeglasses and contact lenses. Just go to www.checkbook.org/washingtonpost. Are you tired of having to ask your companions to read you parts of the menu, or the score of the ballgame or street signs at night? Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5093992 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:33:18 +0100 5093992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5087148&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Db79eab324f60b63a8e1a7d181e6b937b Getting too little sleep can have all kinds of negative consequences, including making you cranky and impairing your driving. A growing body of evidence suggests an addition to that list might be in order: Lack of sleep might also make you fat. The intriguing prospect that sleep duration may play a role in how much we weigh has researchers busily conducting studies to tease out the potential relationship between shut-eye and BMI. Although it might seem intuitive that under-sleeping leads to overeating, science hasn’t yet found a direct cause-and-effect relationship between lack of sleep and being overweight. “There is a very, very strong link,” says Jim Hill, director of the Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Colorado and a spokesman for the American So... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5087148 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:34:27 +0100 5087148 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5087389&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D7406b11f289560d2543edd65d0f70db3 To a non-athlete, the list of my tennis injuries may signal that, at 62, retirement from the game would be a very good idea: rotator-cuff injury (2001); sprained wrist and back (2002); tennis elbow (2003); re-injured wrist (2004); hip sprain (2005); toe surgery, back sprain (2007); re-injured rotator cuff (2009); back spasms, rotator cuff again (2010); broken right toe, burst cyst behind right knee, right-hip arthritis, sprained back (2011). But to a senior athlete, pain is such a constant that is often ignored. It takes a rapid-fire sequence of play-stopping injuries to illuminate what seems obvious to others: An aging body demands accommodation. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5087389 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:19:00 +0100 5087389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5063400&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D39fc066e25ac926e1019e8c42c49f2b8 Are you prepared to temper your tallow consumption and swap shortening for safflower oil? The federal government’s 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans urge us to reduce our intake of “solid fats” such as saturated and trans fats by replacing them with more healthful, unsaturated fats and oils. The former are believed to increase risk of certain chronic conditions and diseases, while the latter may help protect against them. Robert Post, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, says Americans are getting “far too many” of their calories from fat, especially solid fat. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5063400 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:59:36 +0100 5063400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5063401&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D7c3c4798e005a7cec1863183ac293b38 Perhaps I shouldn’t have read the new book “Preventing Sudden Death in Sport and Physical Activity” on vacation, when I tend to get more exercise than usual. As a middle-aged runner, my fleeting fears of unexpected demise usually begin and end with heart attacks and heatstroke. But wow, are there a lot of ways to die working out. The book has three chapters on sudden cardiac death — one for young athletes, one for older athletes and one on commotio cordis, death from an otherwise innocuous blow to the sternum. There are chapters on exertional heatstroke, brain injuries, asthma, cervical spine injury and even lightning. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5063401 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:33:30 +0100 5063401 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5061838&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Def6b8666259c12c6ddbaa932f7593ef2 Traffic science is one of those disciplines that seems permanently poised on the verge of a breakthrough. Professional journals regularly publish promising research, and the press trumpets their importance. In 1999, The Post reported that scientists had gathered at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to solve our national traffic problem — just as an earlier generation of physicists had done to build the atomic bomb. And yet driving on the Beltway is still about as enjoyable as cleaning out your ears with a lemon reamer. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5061838 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:56:10 +0100 5061838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5037929&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc17aee6fa740ae1e3a7de1f1b7eb564b When I was growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, snacks were occasional treats, and providing them was certainly not my parents’ priority. Nowadays, though, snacks are not just routine but often required; we parents are asked to supply snacks for sports-team practices, scout meetings and preschool parties. On school days, good parents pack a mid-morning snack and provide another for their kids to devour after school. And snacks aren’t just for kids. Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina who has spent many years studying snacking, says eating outside of mealtimes has been rising for decades among both adults and children. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5037929 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:08:27 +0100 5037929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5037927&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dc7c44e81c76935d682f5e030c40e91ab If you sense something burning at the Franconia Fire Station, don’t worry — it’s just calories. Six days a week, Roberson Magalhaes and Leonardo Lins take over the station’s bingo hall, crank up the music and teach Zumba, a Latin dance-based form of fitness that’s celebrating its 10th year of getting participants to “Ditch the Workout, Join the Party.” But maybe that slogan should really be “Ditch the Gym.” That’s because popular instructors are building such enormous followings that they can’t fit inside typical health club exercise studios, which are rarely designed to handle more than 50 students. So several have started businesses to cater exclusively to the hordes of Zumba zealots, and they’re finding that nearly no matter where they set up shop, they don’t h... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5037927 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:56:02 +0100 5037927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5012517&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3Da288c0440aea0ce5ea7eb94a7247cb3b%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5012517 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:51:15 +0100 5012517 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5012516&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da288c0440aea0ce5ea7eb94a7247cb3b My son’s name is Charlie. But lately I’ve come to think of him as The Gaping Maw. At 14, Charlie’s 5-foot-8, having grown about two inches in each of the past five years. Many mornings he comes down to breakfast looking taller than he’d been the night before. And although he has plenty of interests, his primary activity lately seems to be scavenging for food. Like many of us, when he gets hungry, he gets grumpy. So, to avoid that unpleasantness, and to fuel his physical growth, I try to keep him amply fed. But I’ve found that, in the effort to keep him full, my normal nutrition standards often fall by the wayside. Plus, I’m going broke! Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5012516 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:51:15 +0100 5012516 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5012515&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D1228270a744fce5c3127cd71a8ce2b5f Anyone who’s been paying the slightest bit of attention knows by now that the government and public health organizations want adults to get a minimum amount of exercise on a regular basis. Generally speaking, guidelines call for 30 minutes of moderate intensity cardio (a brisk walk will do) five days a week, two or three weekly sessions of resistance training (usually weightlifting), plus stretching and balance exercises. Seems like a second full-time job, doesn’t it? If you’re meeting those goals (I admit I’m not), congratulations. The benefits to your long-term health are indisputable. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5012515 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:48:54 +0100 5012515 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5012518&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D22a1b4524b1880c8832878f42569621a Adding obstacles normally keeps people away. But not when it comes to Metro Dash, which was originally a four-mile race scattered with functional fitness pit stops. For last year's events, one of those was the "gantlet," a mini-obstacle course involving tire flips, kettlebell swings and a sled pull. "The feedback was everyone loved the gantlet, so we took the running out of it," creator Sean Ofeldt says. The concept has proved popular, boosting attendance from 500 in the District last year to a sellout field of 1,800 expected from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday for the race at the Plateau at National Harbor, Harborview Avenue and Oxon Hill Road. Participation in the event has also increased across the country, which Ofeldt attributes to the fact that it has tapped into a community of exercise ... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5012518 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:21:22 +0100 5012518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4998675&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D55cbb2ed42c010e8c4ecbab10436805a It’s the peak of summer. Here are ways to stay at your personal best through July. Pick a pepper: Bell peppers, now coming into season at area farms and backyard gardens, are nutritious summer vegetables – and they’re pretty, too. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4998675 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:29:00 +0100 4998675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4998674&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3De0a05fd5a3dc5feea3e2e91545d5f7e9 How does it feel to sprint with a medicine ball, vault over a trio of boxes, scurry through a tunnel, pull yourself over two pommel horses, climb a cargo net, hoist a sandbag while ascending a flight of stairs, run up an eight-foot wall and then flip a tractor tire 10 times? You could ask the crew gathered at Urban Evolution, a year-old gym in Alexandria — if they weren’t all flopped on mats, drenched in sweat and struggling to catch their breath. This is Competition Training. It’s the brainchild of owner Salil Maniktahla, who didn’t want anything to stand between his students and the obstacle course races that have starting popping up across the region over the past five years. Most, such as Warrior Dash and RunAmuck, are mud runs that require participants to rappel down ravines, ... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4998674 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:23:45 +0100 4998674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4998183&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D27b6221a39fcf6cc8cc63df1921a5aa6 Rafael Cabrero, a customer service representative for Verizon Wireless in Laurel, lost 219 pounds in 11 months using the company gym and the services of its three trainers at a cost — to him — of $15 a month. As the weight came off, Cabrero’s blood pressure fell and his aching back and knees improved. Cabrero, 37, has little doubt about the value of employer-provided fitness programs. “It’s kind of simple,” he said. “I don’t have to go one place and then work out” before traveling to work. It’s three flights up from the gym to his office. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4998183 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:50:57 +0100 4998183 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974596&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D71877418d96b7203f37616807ccbb0f2 With the Fourth of July coming up this weekend, my editor Nathan had an idea. “What if we offered advice on how to make backyard barbecuing more healthful while still keeping it recognizable?” he suggested, adding, parenthetically, “I’ve been to barbecues with only veggie burgers; that wasn’t fun.” That’s the whole idea behind Eat, Drink and Be Healthy, of course: figuring out ways to eat more healthfully while still having fun. And I agree about veggie burgers: They’re fine for once in a while, but on this major backyard-barbecue weekend, I want to sink my teeth into something more satisfying. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974596 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:20:36 +0100 4974596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953830&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D14719e869fea09943604570a3700938d The federal government’s new MyPlate guide to healthful eating suggests filling one-quarter of your plate with protein. That can include meat, poultry, fish and seafood. But vegetarians, vegans and those who value a varied diet might want to toss some nuts and seeds into that quadrant. MyPlate, whose round dinner plate replaces the food pyramid, helps consumers interpret the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, which suggest we choose from a variety of foods, including nuts and seeds, to meet our protein needs. That ensures that we get the optimal mix of nutrients in our diets, as different protein sources bring different combinations of vitamins, minerals, fats and fiber to the table. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953830 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:28:32 +0100 4953830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4951774&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd0a5462c99dd26966d89891712dc0188 Danielle Dobin likes to participate in a variety of activities at the Equinox health club in Bethesda, everything from Pilates to cycling to swimming. But there’s one thing you won’t ever see the 38-year-old doing: pulling up her pants. Tired of exposing her bellybutton while practicing her yoga headstands, and fed up with her pants falling off her rear end during sets of squats, the former lawyer and real estate developer set out to find her ideal workout outfit. She wanted better coverage, fabric that moved with her instead of slipping and support around her waist for a sleeker appearance. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4951774 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:10:42 +0100 4951774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934876&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D6a44e0eaa9f8ac32d8fa9be51c40ebe3 MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain says the son of the island nation’s king and the daughter of Saudi Arabia’s monarch have agreed to wed — further cementing ties boosted by cooperation to crush pro-reform protests. An announcement on the official Bahrain News Agency says Bahrain’s Sheik Khalid bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa signed a marriage contract Thursday with the daughter of Saudi King Abdullah. The Friday report did not give the woman’s name or when the ceremony would occur. Such strategic family alliances are common among the Gulf’s Sunni leaders. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934876 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:42:07 +0100 4934876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934763&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D5f3d99336d706f22ec30676c087b5178 Vladimir Ashkenazy closed out the National Symphony Orchestra’s subscription season with a bracing trio of classics by Walton and Shostakovich. This repertoire plays to the NSO’s strengths and avoids its weaknesses, and the performances are well worth hearing. The principal offering, Shostakovich’s epic Tenth, is one of the great symphonies of the past century. Composed in a period of relative liberation, immediately after the death of Stalin, it looks back on the sclerotic oppression of his era with grim, clear honesty. It is also the first of several works that uses a motto (D, E-flat, C, B) that “spells out” the composer’s name. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934763 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:23:24 +0100 4934763 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934762&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dde505fbf98cf1eba0c2c56cbcd815f4d This year an estimated 1,596,670 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer. Of those, about 571,950 -- more than 1,500 per day -- are expected to die. That’s the bottom line in today’s report from the American Cancer Society (ACS), which every year updates cancer incidence and mortality statistics. Beyond that, the ACS’s “Cancer Facts and Figures 2011” offers a detailed view of where we as a nation stand vis a vis cancer. It is of course not a particularly pretty picture. Cancer is, after all, the second-leading cause of death in this country, led only by heart disease, the ACS reports, accounting for almost one in four deaths. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934762 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:01:00 +0100 4934762 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934747&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3D1e3a1843cc4075646d1b2a62fda8ae6c%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934747 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:38:33 +0100 4934747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934746&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D1e3a1843cc4075646d1b2a62fda8ae6c Geoff Johns speaks in crescendos, building his precisely rising soliloquies until they gather a certain centrifugal force. At the moment, he is spinning a rhapsody in green. “I hope fans take away the wonderment of what the Green Lantern is,” says Johns, just getting warmed up as he discusses his new film. “The vastness of the universe. The canvas that these stories are painted across. . . . ” Johns speaks in word-pictures, hard images that he gradually imbues with greater meaning. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934746 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:38:33 +0100 4934746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4933609&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D247e67963d56d5708ff1ebd716a174a8 Ameeting of anarchists, progressives, a self-described “surly feminist” and others on the far left of the political spectrum is underway. They’re young and radical. They’re organizing intently. The matter at hand could be oppression, or the police state, or revolution. But it’s not. It’s walking dogs. They sit in a circle in the living room of a Petworth group house and tick off their “route updates,” which mostly consist of details about the new canine clients they’ve signed up. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4933609 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:45:00 +0100 4933609 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4933607&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd97a6ac49456df72f415aae53e20cbd9 “What Makes Powerful Men Act Like Pigs,” declared the cover of the May 30 issue of Time magazine. “What’s the Matter With Men?” asked the conservative-leaning Independent Women’s Forum on May 19. “Why Men Cheat,” teased a story on the Huffington Post last week. Those looking for explanations to these questions should stop reading now. I don’t have the answers, nor am I interested in doing the difficult, ultimately fruitless and arbitrary work of providing any. For one thing, I’m not sure it really matters. The reasons behind Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to carry on a years-long affair with his housekeeper are specific and unknowable, probably even to him. (Reckless adulterers are not exactly renowned for their self-awareness.) Ditto for Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose ... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4933607 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:25:00 +0100 4933607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4933187&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3De609c22991b5f976256d6e489f312d57 Oprah Winfrey wants to interview O.J. Simpson on the Oprah Winfrey Network to help put the network on the ratings map — on the condition that he promises to use the opportunity to say he killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. “I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” Winfrey told an enthusiastic crowd of cable industry suits attending the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention in Chicago, according to news media reports. “And I am going to make that happen, people. I don’t just want the interview. I want the interview on the condition that you are ready, Mr. Simpson,” she added. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4933187 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:12:47 +0100 4933187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4932324&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Daf38d67d680a1c2ff72710e98aeb330e I wouldn’t say you’re mean or vindictive, but your behavior does seem punitive. You expected things of your friends, and when you didn’t get them, it was off with the friendship. There is a happy, low-maintenance medium between “going above and beyond” and going silent to the point where you override your impulse to say hello: Catch up how you want, when you want. Think of it as ending the expectations vs. ending the friendships. When you enjoy friends’ company on whatever terms you feel like offering, you’re making peace with it all upfront. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4932324 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:04:03 +0100 4932324 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4933608&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Db47ab4b5884275287e662d6f5fecc090 The work of four female artists who decided to hang around together, “Wavelengths’’ is a quartet of site-specific installations that are suspended in midair. The pieces make fruitful use of the two-level space at Anacostia’s Honfleur Gallery , especially the larger room on the first floor. The artists’ individual statements are laden with theory, but their art is agreeably airy. The simplest of the four is local artist Alexandra R. Zealand’s untitled cascade of used coffee filters, whose array of tan and brown hues suggests a swarm of moths. Most of the filters cluster near the floor, but some flit higher, providing a sense of motion. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4933608 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:30:00 +0100 4933608 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4932325&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D438e22e6d174f1fdbb35441b2a0d1537 Bryan Voltaggio has more than a new cookbook on his plate. “Volt Ink,” written with his brother and former “Top Chef” rival Michael Voltaggio, is due in October, and on top of that, Bryan is whipping up two new restaurants. The first is scheduled for an early 2012 launch in Frederick, near the chef’s original dining destination, Volt . Tentatively called North Market Kitchen for its address at 331 N. Market St., the 10,000-square foot space will be a combination 200-plus seat dining room, specialty store and exhibition kitchen with multiple stations serving pasta and charcuterie made in-house, a raw bar, cheese counter, patisserie and rotisserie. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4932325 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:00:00 +0100 4932325 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4932107&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D3ae295f5f13ccec4c663a609ad51cc18 AMSTERDAM — I never expected washing dishes to be a highlight on my European vacation. But for three mornings in a row in Amsterdam, I woke up early and darted to the kitchen. From the bow of our houseboat, I could bask in the sun through huge windows, clean up from the night before and watch as tour boats navigated our canal. Tourists smiled and waved at me, and I smugly did the same. “Ha, they think I’m a native. Suckers!” I’d think. And for those few days, I was. This was the type of experience I craved for my recent trip to Europe. I’d been several times before and wanted to experience life there beyond the sights. I wanted authenticity: to go to markets, prepare food, relax on a deck and soak it all up. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4932107 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:04:39 +0100 4932107 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4932108&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D3894c5c4ea241ad1f24159443e3da62e Her favorite ingredient is love, but Carla Hall understands when preparing dinner can turn a home cook homicidal. It often happens when a recipe betrays you — or you betray it with a simple misreading. Maybe you added a half tablespoon of cayenne when the recipe called for a half teaspoon? Whatever the case, with her upcoming daytime TV show, “The Chew,” Hall wants to help cooks when they become unhinged in the kitchen. She plans to host a recurring segment on the ABC program in which she provides tips for reviving a dish when it starts to die. You could call it one of Hall’s pet peeves: Classic cooking shows act like “nobody messes up” in the kitchen, she says. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4932108 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:00:00 +0100 4932108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4931984&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dee6cd70677606c5fcf46879dfe80ba00 SAN FRANCISCO — Police say a University of New Mexico football player’s saggy pants led to his arrest at San Francisco International Airport. Sgt. Michael Rodriguez says 20-year-old Deshon Marman was boarding a flight Wednesday to Albuquerque, N.M., when a U.S. Airways employee noticed his pants were “below his buttocks, but above the knees, and his boxer shorts were showing.” Rodriguez tells the San Francisco Chronicle that the employee asked Marman to pull up his pants, but he refused. She then asked him to leave the plane. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4931984 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:25:15 +0100 4931984 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4931985&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dfe2845417ff87ef59b459ed3a41d67f7 EASTON, Md. — Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is finally getting a homecoming celebration in his native Maryland county with a statue honoring him, after years of work by local residents to recognize him in a prominent place. The statue will be located on the same courthouse grounds where he gave a speech in 1878 and where a monument to local men who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War now stands. For supporters who have worked on the project, it’s a long-overdue monument to an important American, and they view the diversity of people supporting the effort as a sign of how far race relations have come in a county where the location of the statue stirred debate as recently as the last decade. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4931985 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:08:54 +0100 4931985 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4931983&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Db8e1c52f82d395bdac6a587cd76516ac Sarah Gorrell was making small talk when she asked Akshay Kulkarni, whom she had just met at a party, how things were going. “Well, this is the absolute worst day of my career,” he responded. It wasn’t typical party banter, but Gorrell accepted a glass of wine from Kulkarni and listened as he told her about a rogue trader who had cost his employer, a French bank, $7.14 billion. “The bank’s going to be sold,” he remembers thinking. “I’m out of a job.” After that party in January 2008, they encountered each other in New York several more times, in group settings coordinated by Diplav Sapkota, a friend of Kulkarni’s who was in Gorrell’s public-health graduate program at Columbia University. Each time, Kulkarni found himself speaking with the same candor. Read full artic... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4931983 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:08:00 +0100 4931983 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4931795&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd83f0798481e235b7d27a3d2f352da0c Dawn Mishra, 28, is an intellectual-property lawyer. Matthew Majkut, 29, specializes in cyber security and privacy consulting for a technology company. They live in Old Town Alexandria. Wedding date: May 14 Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4931795 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:45:47 +0100 4931795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4931796&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D79401cb764700df176818ce1f4f7d797 NAPA, Calif. — Blessed with lavish scenery and luscious wines, the Napa Valley is the kind of place you could spend days exploring. But it’s compact enough that even if you only have an afternoon, you can still get a taste of wine country. Located about an hour’s drive northeast of San Francisco, the valley starts south of Napa and stretches about 30 miles north to Calistoga. To get here from San Francisco, drive north on the Golden Gate Bridge and then take the Highway 37 exit going east to Highway 121/12, following the signs to Napa. From the east San Francisco Bay, take I-80 east to the Napa exit (Highway 37 east) and then go north on Highway 29. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4931796 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:33:52 +0100 4931796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929794&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3D4a6d31045a1e56b6b857a7551774621c%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929794 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:33:06 +0100 4929794 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929792&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D4a6d31045a1e56b6b857a7551774621c The goal was a simple chicken casserole that had the rich, satisfying flavor of a lasagna. Actually, that’s a lie. The goal was a chicken roulade — a dish in which chicken breasts are pounded flat, then slathered or layered with some sort of filling, then rolled into a log and roasted or braised. Except my roulade didn’t cooperate. During roasting, the cheesy innards oozed out all over the baking sheet, then promptly burned. The result was an inedible, ugly mess. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929792 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:33:06 +0100 4929792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929790&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D729488ef8754c5cb44b4b79bcc7f8bfe JERUSALEM — When night falls on the Old City of Jerusalem this week, the walled enclave sheds its role as one of the world’s most contested pieces of real estate to become a luminous carnival of art installations and performances. Jerusalem’s Festival of Lights, now in its third year, illuminates an area known more for religious friction and clashing political claims than for art or nightlife. Most nights, the Old City’s stone alleyways are dimly lit, peopled mainly by small numbers of tourists, Palestinian merchants and children, and ultra-Orthodox Jews headed to or from religious studies or prayers. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929790 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:25:07 +0100 4929790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929789&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da837138cb36b8e09898cdc8027896de1 Scientists in California have begun selecting patients to participate in the second research project approved in the United States to evaluate a therapy made from human embryonic stem cells. A team led by Steven Schwartz at the University of California, Los Angeles, started picking volunteers for the studies, which will treat two forms of progressive blindness, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., of Marlborough, Mass., which is sponsoring the study, announced Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration in November approved the company’s plans to test cells created from human embryonic stemcells on patients suffering from Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy, a progressive form of blindness that usually begins in childhood, and Dry Age-Related Macular Generation, the leading cause of blindness in t... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929789 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0100 4929789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929281&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da837138cb36b8e09898cdc8027896de1 Researchers in California have begun selecting patients to participate in the second research project approved in the United States to evaluate a therapy made from human embryonic stem cells. A team led by Steven Schwartz at the University of California, Los Angeles, had started picking volunteers for the studies, which will treat two forms of progressive blindness, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., of Marlborough, Mass., which is sponsoring the study, announced Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration in November approved the company’s plans to test cells created from human embryonic stem cells on patients suffering from Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy, a progressive form of blindness that usually begins in childhood, and Dry Age-Related Macular Generation, the leading cause of blindnes... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929281 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0100 4929281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929148&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D20eb2cc3bb1a87ebb2229f122684e7a6 New research suggests that consuming lots of olive oil is associated with a reduced risk of ischemic stroke. A study published on-line Wednesday in the journal Neurology looked at olive-oil consumption among more than 7,600 people ages 65 and older in three French cities who had taken part in what’s known as the Three-City Study. After controlling for diet, lifestyle and stroke-risk factors, they found that “intensive” olive-oil users (those who used it for cooking and dressing their food) had a 41 percent reduced risk of ischemic (the kind caused by an artery blockage) stroke during the five-year follow-up period than those who reported using no olive oil at all. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929148 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:00:00 +0100 4929148 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929044&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D6cb27b44409cd6f228c4a7a4a7e91202 BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court has sentenced 15 alleged al-Qaida members to death for their role in a 2006 wedding party massacre. Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar says the court on Thursday found the defendants guilty of planning and perpetrating the massacre that left 70 people dead. The wedding day attack is viewed by many Iraqis as one of the most horrific attacks carried out by Sunni-led militants during the insurgency. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929044 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:41:37 +0100 4929044 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928893&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Df74ac8582a3e4f02a0f1366fc088d745 Dear Heloise: Here’s a hint for storing books so they don’t get a musty odor: Don’t store them with or around old newspapers, because newspapers will absorb odors, and so could the books. Put some cat litter in an empty margarine cup or similar container and punch holes in the lid, then place near the books. -- Bonnie in Lakeland, Fla. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928893 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:01:00 +0100 4928893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928892&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Deb48e13a3ecf09e72971b00eb0e90042 DEAR AMY: I am a 64-year-old woman, and I’ve been careful but not miserly with my money. I was a teacher who lived below my means for years. I paid off my home in 15 years, invested in my retirement account to the max and have been reasonably successful in the stock market. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928892 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:01:00 +0100 4928892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928844&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da9000bf460c45f69ec8f38b5f9543c1b Exuberance and stodgy earnestness vie for control of “Canto al Peru Negro (Celebrating Afro Peru!),” the final offering of GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 2010-11 season. On the one hand, this frugally produced tribute to the culture and history of Afro-Peruvians, directed by GALA Producing Artistic Director Hugo Medrano, contains some vivacious, arm-pumping, skirt-swirling dancing and lots of seductive music. On the other hand, the dialogue that writer Gabriel Garcia has concocted to link these lively sequences can be so didactic and exposition-filled that it makes you want to bang your head repeatedly against a cajon. (As Garcia’s script donnishly explains, the box-shaped drum known as a cajon is believed to have originated when African slaves in Peru turned wooden packing crates into pe... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928844 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:40:54 +0100 4928844 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928846&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D6df78f5af30b77d6856f78f5a80d7e4b Taking on the sophistications of an opera like Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann,” even in a concert performance, is an ambitious stretch for any small local company, but taking it on without a stage director is just foolish. Concerts may not involve sets or costumes, but there is some acting expected and, for a cast of singers of mixed experience and ability, acting often can save the show. Case in point, the Riverbend Opera Company, in the middle of a four-performance run of “Tales” in four venues. On Tuesday, in the spare space of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church on the Southwest waterfront, many of the less-experienced singers were left without the coaching that might have made them credible actors. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928846 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:37:36 +0100 4928846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928781&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D21a06c481923be4ffe941c1be0502325 What’s the best part of vacation? That’s easy: sun, surf, amusement parks, pools, time with family. And what’s the worst part? Unfortunately, that’s easy, too: getting there! Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928781 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:19:04 +0100 4928781 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928782&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D9e062d61e687e74bf8da68d9a1df6465 Washington counts. Counts yeas and nays. Counts earmarked dollars and donated dollars. Counts favors and disses. Counts everything. So golf, one of the most number-preoccupied of amateur sports, fits the town’s mind-set. It’s eminently quantifiable. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928782 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:37:18 +0100 4928782 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928741&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dbb8056a17cf3392105b255b0c405ca9b Adapted from a recent online discussion. I don’t think you need to say this is one-time-only. Should she ever ask again, you simply say no. I do think, though, that you need to prepare yourself for not getting this money back. Loans to friends generally don’t end well, and loans to friends you don’t entirely trust and who aren’t entirely trustworthy? That’s a seriously low-percentage venture. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928741 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:04:03 +0100 4928741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928740&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D4857ce4bac4e305a2a93015ba4f01b68 Good news for those TV watchdog groups: Long before Americans go blind watching all that smut on television, they are going to die from watching all that television. For every additional two hours that people spend glued to their television sets on a typical day, their risk of developing type-2 diabetes increases by a whopping 20 percent, and their risk of heart disease rises by 15 percent. That’s according to an analysis of eight studies on the subject published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association and brought to our attention by Health.com. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928740 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:09:49 +0100 4928740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928845&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da1f67700d972aaf658da1b132e5aced7 Leonardo DiCaprio has been seen with one. So have Katherine Heigl and Lindsay Lohan. The goodie isn’t a multimillion-dollar film contract but an electronic cigarette, or “e-cig.” E-cigs have been on the market for nearly seven years, but their appearance in the Hollywood spotlight hints at a newfound popularity. “I’ve seen it around a lot and have been curious about it,” says Maxine Jean-Louis, 24, a case worker from Columbia Heights. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928845 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:00 +0100 4928845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928611&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D320817b9c2d2688b8f5dd07439403ef2 For the nostalgic ex-showgirls of the Kennedy Center’s “Follies,” there are more Broadway memories to be made. The center revealed Wednesday that its $7.3 million production will move this summer to a Broadway theater in the heart of Times Square. The dates have not been firmed up, but Michael M. Kaiser, the Kennedy Center’s president, said that the Marquis Theatre, on Broadway between West 45th and West 46th streets, has been secured for the limited engagement, beginning midsummer and, depending on the strength of ticket sales, running possibly into the winter. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928611 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:00:00 +0100 4928611 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928601&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Ddfddd344656d4304f1de985dc760a291 Mind your camera when you’re traveling this summer. Taking an innocent snapshot in a public area may get you in trouble, even if photography is allowed. It almost landed Ryan Miklus behind bars when he flew from Phoenix to Reno with his parents recently. When Miklus tried to videotape an altercation between his mother and a TSA agent, another officer tried to stop him. “You are not allowed to film,” the officer says on the video. “You need to go. You cannot film us.” Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928601 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:09:59 +0100 4928601 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928602&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dbf008d1eb8cbaa2b6bc5a5622c010a2f CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston, which passed the nation’s first historic preservation ordinance 80 years ago, is being warned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that its growing cruise industry threatens the city’s historic character. While Charleston didn’t make the Trust’s 2011 list of the nation’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places being released Wednesday, it was placed on what the preservation group calls watch status. The trust says it means a threat to an historic site that can be avoided by working with residents and developing innovative approaches. It’s the first time in the almost quarter century the list has been issued that a site was put on watch status. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928602 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:50:38 +0100 4928602 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928533&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Df14f062e3a6a27dbf6ea1ee81648005f PHILADELPHIA — The parents of an 11-year-old girl who fell to her death from near the top of a Ferris wheel on the Jersey shore said Tuesday that they believe a better restraint system would have saved her life. Abiah Jones’ parents, Byron and Twanda Jones, spoke Tuesday at a news conference at a Philadelphia law firm that has begun investigating Ferris wheel safety worldwide. Earlier in the day, they appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to talk about what happened to their daughter. They said they haven’t decided whether to file a legal action yet, but lawyer Larry Bendesky said he’s looking into who could have been responsible for the girl’s death. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928533 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:42:06 +0100 4928533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928534&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3De54f5c89ed2a2fe6c8cf0f75e891afa9 WASHINGTON — Jazz musician John Coltrane’s home on Long Island, N.Y., a cloverleaf-shaped Chicago hospital building and a Pillsbury plant in Minneapolis that once was the world’s most advanced flour mill are among America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The National Trust for Historic Preservation on Wednesday also made the unusual move of listing an entire city — Charleston, S.C. — on “watch status.” The group says expanding cruise ship tourism could harm the city’s historic character. Specific sites in Alabama, California, Minnesota, New Mexico, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin also made the list, including a historic Chinatown called China Alley in California’s San Joaquin Valley that began when immigrants arrived in 1877. There are no local historic preser... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928534 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:39:08 +0100 4928534 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928535&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D2099dcb021591a1c96b4930f0f12eb4e SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico’s tourism secretary is hoping for a modest rebound in tourism this summer. And although fires are burning near three of the state’s four borders, Monique Jacobson says she is trying to stay optimistic and reassure people that New Mexico is open for business. Jacobson says much of the department’s focus for building tourism has been on keeping New Mexicans in New Mexico. She says the department now is also trying to be proactive to keep travelers from being scared off by the fires. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928535 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:33:49 +0100 4928535 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4929796&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dd59a13cfd46b8a301f0ca71b12af1a20 THE CHALLENGE Emily and David Muha would like to transform the 20-by-20-foot master bedroom in their Reston home into an end-of-the-day oasis. THE SOLUTION Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4929796 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:34:00 +0100 4929796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928370&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D1111d0689a359e6aec88805b056e8abf Welcome to Wednesday. As the temperature heads above 80 today, it’s a great time to read about ice cream: specifically Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, the subject of one of our cover stories this week. Company founder Jeni Britton Bauer not only makes a terrific product; she also reveals secrets that home cooks can use to turn out splendid ice cream of their own. (There’s a recipe, too.) If healthful foods are more your style, check out today’s story about how sprouted food continues to become more popular despite some safety concerns. And you won’t want to miss Bonnie Benwick’s Book Report, featuring a crop of new garden-to-table cookbooks. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928370 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:00:00 +0100 4928370 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928371&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da15658452ed8f7d8b220f43774ead660 After three or four hours digging and weeding, a hot bath, a soft chair and a couple of aspirin have their appeal, but I like to think I’ve got a fair few years of full-bore gardening in front of me. And yet I do wonder what happens when you reach that point in life when the limbs are too feeble or arthritic for the work. For many folks, not much will change. They will continue to view the space around the house as a necessary evil and get the mow-and-blow brigade to cut the grass, mulch the beds and shape the bushes. (Favorite cringe scene of the past year: mow-and-blower sculpting a gumdrop azalea with gas-powered hedge clippers.) But for active gardeners, who love to nurture plants and work the soil, the decision to scale back gardening also means scaling back the garden. This can be ... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928371 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:17:42 +0100 4928371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928372&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D7583c5250922f896f5084d61b55f42fd Summer watering needs vary by plant type. Established trees and shrubs can suffer from the amounts of water needed to keep a lawn green. Direct your turf irrigation accordingly. Water mature woody plants deeply but infrequently. Trees and shrubs planted in the past year should be watered more regularly in hot, dry periods. A light mulch will help retain soil moisture. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928372 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:07:48 +0100 4928372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928373&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Da9d9f9402af9f16a1ee1b19c77ec4512 The baby chicks arrive by mail in spring, 50 to a box, no bigger than the eggs they will later lay. We gently lift them out, one by one, let them take a sip of water from a paper cup to make sure they know how, then put them under a heat lamp in their mobile field house. Waiting for them is a tray of freshly chopped dandelion greens, their first hit of calcium, chlorophyll and Vitamin C. That’s the first step in an often strange food partnership in which they get the best fare we can conjure up, and we eat the best eggs that ever graced our table. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928373 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:05:22 +0100 4928373 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928368&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dde2efd46f0539c61e2693f35c85e6df4 Local and regional wines were in the spotlight at the Masters of Food and Wine event early this month. It was the Park Hyatt Washington’s second time participating in this event, which occurs throughout the year at several of the hotel chain’s outposts around the world. The hotel’s beverage director, German Broggi, who came to the District last summer, has developed an entire page of Virginia wines for the Park Hyatt’s restaurant, Blue Duck Tavern, and he made sure local vintners were well represented in the three-day event. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928368 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100 4928368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928366&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dee83420cb18a3d1f00e49904eda84246 WASHINGTON — Jazz musician John Coltrane’s home on Long Island, N.Y., a cloverleaf-shaped Chicago hospital building and a Pillsbury plant in Minneapolis that once was the world’s most advanced flour mill are among America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The National Trust for Historic Preservation on Wednesday also made the unusual move of listing an entire city — Charleston, S.C. — on “watch status.” The group says expanding cruise ship tourism could harm the city’s historic character. Specific sites in Alabama, California, Minnesota, New Mexico, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin also made the list, including a historic Chinatown called China Alley in California’s San Joaquin Valley that began when immigrants arrived in 1877. There are no local historic preser... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928366 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:56:57 +0100 4928366 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928361&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D3d714c184b3c3cc1820f3fd83d8164d1 MOSCOW — Words — troublesome things — too often make enemies, not friends, and then, just when we need them most, fail us. So two dozen Russian and American theater students, not knowing the same language anyway, decided to create a mostly wordless play about love and desire, pairing off and breaking up, searching and longing. Their performance, produced in just 11 days, premiered Sunday night to the universal idiom of appreciation — exuberant and sustained applause. “My dream was not only to make people applaud,” Mirjana Jokovic, director of performance at the California Institute of the Arts, told the students, “but also to pause, to stop, and to say, ‘Wow, what just happened?’ That’s what you did today.” Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928361 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:38:29 +0100 4928361 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928362&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D290fde96375e73e2cf6c434f1d1374b9 A woman fired from a men’s magazine wants to hire a lawyer on “Franklin & Bash” (TNT at 9); the client claims she was let go because of her looks. Technology experts and Popular Mechanics magazine choose the “101 Gadgets that Changed the World” (History at 9), which looks back on all kinds of inventions and how they have impacted society. ABC News airs a one-hour special, “Caught in the Act” (ABC at 10), which looks at some crazy events that happened to be captured on tape — including a woman who allegedly plotted to kill her husband but defended herself saying it was just an attempt to create a reality TV show. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928362 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:06:38 +0100 4928362 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4928364&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dbc2ddc2f64ead5b4369eb2ea1cf4b21a Rep. Anthony Weiner says he’s taking a leave of absence from Congress to seek treatment for sending racy Twitter messages and semi-clothed photos of himself to women he apparently never met. Which raises a question: There’s a treatment (or perhaps tweet-ment) for a problem like this? Answer: Yes, but. . . . Well, it gets complicated. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4928364 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:47:03 +0100 4928364 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4927715&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3Dfae5d4123bff5c7a6dfa96d648981cb7 And men. But the helpfulness part is dubious. It takes so much denial to stay in a situation like the one you describe that I fear any help I try to offer will be rationalized away. The substance and quantity of the whoppers you’re being told by your “boyfriend” represent exactly what you require to justify sticking around, compliantly serving as his other woman. You know his relationship with your colleague/neighbor is alive and well, such as it is; you know he’s bad-mouthing her and plucking his grand-paternal heartstrings only to keep you hooked and hopeful; you know you’re staying hooked and hopeful because you’d rather have his company than not have it, and because it comes with perks, like the car for your daughter. (Are you sure, by the way, that he isn’t also danglin... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4927715 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:04:08 +0100 4927715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4927717&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.pheedo.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fs%3D92ebca17e8d049ba1e686b85e42516b1%26p%3D4 (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4927717 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:22:00 +0100 4927717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4927716&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D92ebca17e8d049ba1e686b85e42516b1 The owners of the new Stix truck have a point: It’s tricky to snack and saunter down Washington’s streets with many of the eats you can buy curbside. So Jane Lyons and Leah Perez decided to borrow a technique used at state fairs from the Carolinas to California and impale their freshly prepared food on sticks. I mean, all of their offerings, whether thin strips of grilled beef or what they generously call “apple pie,” are neatly speared on 10-inch skewers, like so many bronzed Peruvian chickens on a spit. Of course, Lyons and Perez prefer to describe their creations as Stix, but whatever you call these bayoneted bites, the owners swear the wooden approach doesn’t limit their kitchen creativity. I have my doubts about that; I suspect they won’t be serving gazpacho on a stick any... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4927716 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:22:00 +0100 4927716 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4927718&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D20c4bf1ffbb6a1bfe1d5893fa15907bd The early Yelp reviews of Pizzeria da Marco in Bethesda were decidedly mixed, a fact that didn’t sit well with chef and Naples native Dino Santonicola, who told the Feast blog last month that locals were “closed-minded” to his Neapolitan pies. But as I bite into my slice of margherita D.O.P. ($12.50), I can relate to at least one of the general public’s complaints: The center of my pie is seriously soggy. As I bring the slice to my mouth, there’s almost nothing solid to hold onto, the thin liquid crust, melted cheese and tomato sauce slipping through my fingers like so much wet sand. Searching for answers, I think I spot the problem. The round is clogged with buffalo mozzarella, far more than I’m used to seeing on Neapolitan pies; the thing is almost American in its cheesines... Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4927718 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:17:00 +0100 4927718 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4927711&cid=s_38585_26_f&fid=38585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.washingtonpost.com%2Fclick.phdo%3Fi%3D954971844c03de19f471c7c8c1c9ab0d • In Virginia, Union and Confederate troops tangle at Fairfax Court House and at Vienna. The Confederates win both skirmishes. • Confederate soldiers near Philippi, in western Virginia, are awakened by a surprise attack. Because of their rapid retreat, newspapers call this action “The Philippi Races.” • In southeastern Virginia, inexperienced Union soldiers fire on one another before being defeated at Big Bethel by a Confederate force about a third the size of theirs. Historians call this the war’s first land battle. Read full article >> (Source: Wash Post Health) Wash Post Health news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4927711 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:55:36 +0100 4927711