Good nutrition is a cornerstone of good health. A low-fat, low-cholesterol diet can reduce your risk for heart disease, certain cancers, diabetes, stroke, and other diseases. One way to improve your diet is to eat more fruits and vegetables. For adults, the 2010 USDA dietary guidelines recommend 2 cups of fruit and 2½ to 3 [...]
Evidence is mounting that a healthy diet can help protect you from some diseases. What you eat—or don't eat—may help prevent heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and type 2 diabetes. With this in mind, here's how to use your diet to help reduce your risk of disease. Beat heart disease To help prevent heart disease, you [...]
Does your lunch just happen? Is it often a last-minute decision of where to eat and whether or not you want fries with your burger? If so, maybe it's time to show lunch a little more respect. Experts agree—lunch is an important meal. Be sure to include foods with a mix of nutrients that will [...]
Dinner parties, cooking for a crowd, fixing the family meal—those are easy compared with the challenges of cooking for one. If you live alone, chances are you don't give your meals a lot of thought or preparation. Many times eating alone means throwing a meal together or getting take out. Such practices may mean unhealthy [...]
What do bananas on your cereal, onions in your chili, and pears for your dessert have in common? They're great ways to get the fruits and vegetables you need to help you live a healthy, active life. The USDA developed Choose My Plate, which provides food guidelines and encourages you to eat only the calories [...]
The NORC Diagnostic Screen for Gambling Disorders-Self Administered (NODS-SA) is self-assessment version of the NODS (the NORC Diagnostic Screen for Gambling Disorders). It was designed to assist individuals in evaluating whether to modify or seek help for their gambling behavior. The NODS is based on the APA’s DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling. Take this quiz [...]
Are you troubled by gambling? Seek help if: you always think about gambling you gamble with money you need for other things you keep gambling even though you may feel bad afterward you get nervous when you try to quit you need to gamble with increasing amounts of money to get the same buzz you [...]
Anyone who’s bought a lottery ticket or played bingo has gambled. Gambling is any game of chance in which money changes hands. It’s common in most cultures around the world. Many people enjoy gambling as recreation without causing harm to themselves or others. Yet some people can’t control their impulse to gamble, even when it [...]
Many sports gamblers consider their extensive betting experience and insight into college basketball a slam-dunk for success during the three-week U.S. championship dubbed "March Madness." But that sense of control over their wagers is an illusion, according to a new study. "Sports gamblers seem to believe themselves the cleverest of all gamblers," Professor Pinhas Dannon, [...]
People who feel socially isolated are more likely to take risks with their money, according to a new study. In a series of experiments, researchers found that the more often people felt excluded, the more likely they were to select longer odds for potentially bigger lottery wins, bet on horse races, gamble in casinos and [...]