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Paris Fashion Week wrap-up
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticDesigners behaving badly, official statements issued, endless speculation about replacements ... Is fashion the new Hollywood or what? At the second half of Paris Fashion Week, which ended Wednesday, the Twitterverse was still on fire with rumors about...Tags: Suicide, Balmain, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Wildfires
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Looking for youth in a jar
Los Angeles TimesSharyn Belkin Locke knows better -- she does -- but she's admittedly attached to her anti- aging products. "If I run out when I travel, it's a problem," says the 44-year-old art director who co-founded the handbag collection Kelly Locke. "I don't like to...Tags: Internists, CVS Corp., Cate Blanchett, Sun-Damaged Skin, Estee Lauder Cos.
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For long life, reach for the pumpkin, carrots and squash
As you gaze across the bountiful Thanksgiving offerings on your table this year, be grateful for the life-extending benefits of orange. Orange as in alpha-carotene. Orange as in pumpkin, carrots and squash, the foods richest in this phytonutrient. A study...Tags: Internists, Human Body, Blood, Heart Disease, Diseases and Illnesses
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Does this birth control pill make me look fat?
Tribune staff reporterLike a lot of young women, Kelsey Webb, 25, has been off and on birth control pills since she was 18. Every time she started taking them, she gained 5 to 10 pounds. "My normal weight is around 125 pounds. On the pill, I would get up to 130 or 135," says...Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Weight Loss, Progesterone, Elections, Colleges and Universities
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With children and food allergy diagnoses, thoroughness is key
More and more kids these days seem to have food allergies, and peanut-free classrooms are becoming the norm in many elementary schools.
In trying to characterize the apparent increase, scientists have identified two distinct trends. The first is that...Tags: Internists, Chiropractors, Pediatrics, Colleges and Universities, Throat
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Health product claims overshoot the runway of reason
It's frighteningly easy to drop a couple of hundred dollars on a holiday present. If you're considering spending big money on a health-related gift, you'll want to make sure that it will do something besides take up space in the gift bag.
Unfortunately,...Tags: Internists, Chiropractors, Colleges and Universities, Health and Medical Professionals, Lettuce
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Thomas Eisner dies at 81; entomologist who studied insect chemistry
Thomas Eisner, who became known as the "father of chemical ecology" as a result of his pioneering studies of how insects use chemicals to mate, elude predators and capture prey, died March 25 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 81 and had Parkinson's...Tags: Career and Workplace, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University, Science, Health
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Skeleton in the Closet
Young people don’t give much thought to their bones unless they’ve broken one. Yet maintaining strong bones is arguably one of the most important things men and women can do to guarantee a robust old age.
Seventy-five percent of skeletal...Tags: Calcium, Genes and Chromosomes, Osteoporosis, Heart Disease, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Radiation exposure and the effects on human health
As engineers have fought to avert a meltdown at the earthquake- and tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant, nuclear authorities have reported that spikes of radiation have escaped from the facility at levels that can be dangerous to...Tags: Human Body, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Diarrhea, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Career and Workplace
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Two Guys Lose Weight: How to dismiss the negative thoughts in your head
NOTE: This is a blog about two guys attempting to lose weight over a six-week period. They kicked off their weight loss "strategies" on Jan. 10.
For every goal there are endless excuses why you can't achieve that goal. The two easiest are time and...Tags: Weight Loss, Lifestyle and Leisure, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Apple iPhone, Foods and Beverages
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Oxford, Miss.: The center of William Faulkner's cosmos
Los Angeles Times Book Critic"The past is never dead. It's not even past," William Faulkner wrote in 1951, two years after winning the Nobel Prize for literature. It's one of his best-known lines, but I don't think I ever truly understood it until I came to Oxford. For more than...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Music, Rentals, Colleges and Universities, Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi)
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Holiday gifts: A baker's dozen of great cookbooks
Fall is the harvest season, right? That's especially true when it comes to cookbooks, which every year arrive in a seasonal flood that puts apples and pears to shame. By some counts, as many as three-fourths of all cookbooks in the United States are...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Cabbage, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pizzas, Books and Magazines
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