Stress … everyone feels it to one extent or another.  Science knows that stress affects not only mental health but bodily health as well.  Long term stress can weaken your immune system, making you vulnerable to infections, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and a host of other problems.  Although they haven’t figured out exactly why, people [...]

Last Friday was Oatmeal Day.  (And since Saturday was “Be Late for Something Day”, I’m following suggestions.) Call me weird, but I grew up eating oatmeal in the winter and still like it.  Hot, a little brown sugar & milk, mmm.  Wintertime comfort food which is not only warming but nutritious. While there are a [...]