My wife and I try our best to consume whatever information we can with regard to health topics so that our family is well taken care of physically. Because we’ve had issues with asthma, allergies, and other autoimmune problems, we are constantly researching natural ways to relieve or cure things. Just when I think I’ve…
Over 25 million Americans have asthma, about 8% of our total population. For me personally, asthma has affected my household since I had to learn to deal with it starting as a child. Now, as a married father of several kids, I am helping three of my six children try to overcome consistent bouts of…
Discussions about vaccines – including their efficacy, their potential harms to individuals, their benefits to society in general, and lots of related topics – tend to have very little middle ground. In fact, it’s hard to find a discussion about vaccines that doesn’t involve heated debate and intense argument. People are most often either decidedly…
Since the very first times I can remember paying for my own healthcare expenses – shortly after I became an adult – I’ve often found myself puzzled at how healthcare is done in America and wondering why it often seems so inefficient and expensive. As a now two-decades-long consumer (a purchase-with-my-own-hard-earned-money kind of healthcare consumer)…
This morning I noticed a headline on KSL.com titled, “‘What Jesus would have us do’: Utah religious leaders urge support of Medicaid expansion initiative.” I was especially intrigued to know whether my own religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or LDS Church), would be officially referenced in the article, so I clicked…
One of the great things about life is the opportunity we’re given to start fresh each day. For the most part, the human inhabitants of planet earth experience a similar pattern that cycles every 24 hours. We wake up in the morning. We do a bunch of stuff with our time during the day. Then…
An Apple a Day? As the saying goes, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” That has been good advice since the saying first started being used at the end of the 19th century. It’s certainly beneficial to your health to eat an apple every day, but are there other foods that might even…
I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be paying fines for not purchasing something the federal government thinks is a good deal. I’ve also never known the federal government to be great at spotting good deals. The ever-climbing federal deficit proves that. But there’s hope. An article published by The Hill recently described…