While the eyes may be the window to the soul, the mouth is a window to the body’s health. The state of one’s oral health can offer lots of clues about a person’s overall physical state of being; indexed, oral health and overall health are more connected than you might realize. Sometimes, the first sign of a disease shows up in the mouth. In other cases, oral infections, such as gum disease, can cause problems in other parts of the body.
Most people are aware that lifestyle choices, such as eating …

In the last few years, teeth whitening has become extremely popular and most dental offices as well as cosmetic dentists are offering professional whitening services starting at a couple hundred dollars. If you prefer popular at-home treatments in strips, pens or gel trays, they are slightly cheaper than professional applications and most are under $100, but they can strip your teeth by using harsh chemicals and add to the sensitivity of both teeth and gums. Natural remedies have been around for years and most are better for your teeth and …

Some people just love Vista; others hate it with a passion. Most of the haters fall into two main groups. The first group upgraded to Vista from XP, possibly without running the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor to make sure their hardware and software would be compatible. They spent hours trying to get printers to print, accounts receivable programs to account, fax modems to fax, and so on, and they heartily blame Vista for their woes. Many of those in the second group think Vista is the cat’s pajamas…except for those …

It doesn’t look like Microsoft will make its goal of releasing Internet Explorer 8 by the end of this year.
Microsoft will release one more public beta of the browser software in the first quarter of 2009, according to a blog posting Wednesday by Dean Hachamovitch, Internet Explorer general manager at Microsoft. That “release candidate” will be followed by the final release, Hachamovitch said.
Microsoft first demonstrated the new release of Internet Explorer 8 at the vendor’s Mix conference in March, followed quickly by the product’s first beta. That was followed by …

The School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) collaborated with the Bluewater District School Board, Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board, Grey Bruce Health Unit and the Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation at the University of Waterloo have been research project of students.
Research show improving the health of children in Grey-Bruce requires immediate action. The findings illustrate that although children understand the importance of eating well and being active, this is not reflected in their behaviour. The issue requires two solutions in the combination of healthy eating …

Obese children and teenagers with arteries like those of middle-aged adults ought to be a wake-up call for anyone interested in public health.
The disturbing findings were documented in a study presented this week at an American Heart Association conference in New Orleans. The findings suggest that obese children have a significant risk of heart disease as they grow older.
It’s heartening that presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain made prevention a plank in their health care reform platforms.
Consensus is a good start. Any overhaul of the nation’s health care system …

To overcome the health crisis in childhood obesity in the United States, we need to change the culture symbolized by drive-through, supersized value meals, agreed panelists at the Nov. 14 Southern California Health Leadership Panel.
Speaking at the Aresty Conference Center on the USC Health Sciences campus, health policy leaders joined CNN talk show host Larry King in discussing the causes, consequences and possible solutions to childhood obesity.
The cause of increasing obesity over the last 20 years, panelists said, is the change in lifestyle – a decrease in exercise and an …