Loa’s Column
Let’s Nail This One Down
Your body is a walking, talking billboard telling the world how well it’s being managed by…you. Your waistline, skin tone, and even your disposition are all outward signs of just how well you’re doing. But there’s another marker that is putting some pretty important information out there. Look down at your hands. Here’s what you’ve [...]
Nothing like a good pair of “Genes”
Your mother or father may have suffered from a serious illness, let’s say cancer. Or maybe several family members are dealing with diabetes. The thought of coming away from the doctor’s office with the same diagnosis can put you in a state of near panic with each check up. It’s true; you are uniquely who [...]
Antibacterial Soaps & Germaphobia—How Clean Are Your hands?
As a young mother I had the phone number to Poison Control memorized. I had a child who put pretty much everything he could get his hands on into his mouth. And since there was no Internet, I was on the phone to them constantly. I wasn’t a germaphobe, didn’t even know the term back then, but I worried about what the germs could do to him. Nowadays, germaphobia is taking us over as a culture. On a very deep level our bodies sense the toxic world we live in, and maybe subconsciously we think we can “wash it all away.” But all that “rub-a-dub-dubbing” with antibacterial soap is causing us far more harm than good.
Thanks, Fred
Who makes you laugh? Peter Sellers, falling off the back of a couch? Jerry Seinfeld, elaborating about “nothing,” or Tina Fey’s quick-witted banter? Our definition of funny keeps evolving. Comedian Fred Willard cracks me up. He taps into a kind of humor that is universally hilarious. Sometimes just the look on his face has me [...]
