Census bureau counts, even in its `off years’
As a top manager for the U.S. Census Bureau's Chicago regional office, Marilyn Stephens hears the question a lot. "What do you guys do the other nine years?" Stephens has...
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In oil parlance, this could be a diet gusher
A couple years ago, University of Massachusetts researcher Robert Nicolosi predicted Americans would be hearing more about healthy cooking oils--no, that's not an oxymoron. Turns out Nicolosi was right. The...
Meditation lets you get a jump on aggression
Some conversations stick with you like a good book or favorite song. I had one such dialogue with Richard Brown a few months ago. Brown is chairman of the early...
Couples are at the heart of wellness
These are the sorts of lines you expect to hear in a marriage counselor's office: "What do I need to listen to her for? We've been married 35 years," says...
A report card parents may want to hide
Just in time for the end of another year of high school, the third annual Uhlich Report Card comes out Tuesday. Only in this case, it's the teenagers evaluating the...
Let’s consider the full story on cholesterol
He has been saying it since becoming the first and only coordinator of the National Cholesterol Education Program, established in 1985. Dr. James Cleeman was saying it again earlier this...
The milk debate: soy vs. cow
The issue of soy consumption and kids calls for nothing short of gut instinct. Soy opponents can find research that supports an argument that the isoflavones in soy can subject...
Soy advice from one who knows beans
Funny thing about soybeans. About one-third of the soybean crop grown in the United States is shipped to Asia for consumption there, where tofu, miso and other variations long have...
Boys open up but through a side door
Harvard Medical School psychologist William S. Pollack likes to tell this story: A boy has been unusually quiet since coming home from grade school. His mother says, "Let's sit and...
Cafe may be for seniors, but it’s wired
The neighborhood pharmacy advertises wheelchairs, hospital beds and oxygen bottles for sale or rent. But the new Mather Cafe Plus across the street in Chicago's Norwood Park neighborhood offers a...