Researchers at Schering-Plough Healthcare Products have developed an insole to prevent foot pain in women who wear high-heels.
What the insole does is shift the woman’s weight back on the heel and off the front of the foot, which is where women have their foot pain.
Check out Dr. Scholl’s for Her High Heel Insole.
Interestingly, the researchers also found out that insoles can also provide pain relief for osteoarthritis in the back, hips and knees.
According to research done by Kodak, while it’s easier to say in touch with family and friends using email, texting, and sites like Facebook - the contacts may be less meaningful.
As a matter of fact, Kodak researchers found that 60% of the respondents felt like they have fewer meaningful relationships now.
Brazilian researchers found that people who go to sleep late at night are nearly 3 times more likely to experience depression symptoms than people who go to sleep early and wake up early.
The researchers speculated that there may be an optimal time to fall asleep and to wake up.
My guess is that this may be accurate since it is only a relatively short period of time that we’ve had electricity which has allowed us to stay up far later into the night than our ancestors who had no electricity.
Research presented at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference found that eating dark chocolate containing at least 70% cocoa may keep the brain alert by increasing blood flow.
When adults consumed a drink containing this amount of cocoa, they reported less mental fatigue.
For more Chocolate/Health Info, search my Past Issue Archives and this - Chocolate, Good for You?.
Dr. Barrie R. Cassileth, Chief of Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, has some interesting recommendations for the use of alternative therapies to reduce the unwanted side-effects from cancer drug treatments and improve a cancer patient’s quality of life.
Here they are:
Use acupuncture to relieve nausea caused by chemotherapy.
For patients with head and neck cancers whose salivary glands were destroyed by radiation treatments, use acupuncture.
Use self-hypnosis to ease the severe hot flashes that plague women battling breast cancer.
Join support groups to improve quality of life and increase survival time for cancer patients.
Use massage and meditation to reduce stress, which may help the body in its fight against cancer.
To learn more about alternative therapies, visit www.annieappleseedproject.org, a website that is a clearinghouse about unconventional approaches to cancer treatments.
(Reported bulletin.aarp.org April 2010)