The JAFT Journal

My employer isn't offering flu shots this year, annoyingly enough, so I had to track down other options. This is what I found:

"Welcome to The American Lung Association's Flu Clinic Locator Site, powered by Maxim Health. Influenza (flu) Season is almost upon us -- the best time to get a flu vaccine is early October to mid November, before you feel flu symptoms -- and finding a clinic is easy with the American Lung Association's Flu Clinic Locator. Just enter your zip code to get started."

Be smart, get shot.

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"I need to get away from it all. From my job, from my friends, from the world I call my own. I think I need a week of uninterrupted me time. I usually take awesome vacations with friends, but end up returning home completely exhausted. Where can I go to completely chill, rejuvenate my mind and body, and return to my life refreshed?"

Great suggestions, very tempting.

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"Fusing exercise and video gaming into one exhilerating and healthy experience for game enthusiasts, the GameRunner is a revolution in medical science and electronic entertainment. The activity of playing a video game generally leaves players physically inactive for prolonged periods of time. The GameRunner solves this problem by allowing players to use their body to play games instead of having the player sit and use only their hands. Naturally this makes playing games on the GameRunner beneficial to your heath by burning calories and keeping your heart rate up."

Now we're talking! Too pricey for me, though, but I like the idea of combining entertainment with exercise.

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"How do you set up a computer workstation? Do you buy monitor risers or remove the CPU from beneath the monitor. Will even lower monitor positions cause neck strain? Can you get away with tipping the monitor down to avoid glare or should you invest in indirect lighting? How about viewing distance? 16 inches? 25 inches? Or even farther? Does screen color make a difference? Is there any evidence that ergonomic workstations improve work performance?"

Ran across this researching the best way to set up my new workspace.

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"There's truth in the maxim 'laughter is a drug'. A comic cartoon fired up the same brain centre as a shot of cocaine, researchers are reporting."

Cheaper, too!

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"Feeling tyrannized by the demands of staying fit? New studies say that worrying about it might be worse for you than hardly working out at all."

Ah, very good. Back to the couch!

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"Fans of abstinence had better be sitting down. 'Saving yourself' before the big game, the big business deal, the big hoedown or the big bakeoff may indeed confer some moral benefit. But corporeally it does absolutely zip. There's no evidence it sharpens your competitive edge. The best that modern science can say for sexual abstinence is that it's harmless when practiced in moderation. Having regular and enthusiastic sex, by contrast, confers a host of measurable physiological advantages, be you male or female."

Yay!

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"Getting a good night’s sleep before a big exam might be better than pulling an all-nighter. A study found that sleep apparently restores memories that were lost during a hectic day."

Yet another reason for naps, lots and lots of naps. MMMM, naps!

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"Public health experts, worried that the coming flu season could bring an especially nasty virus and thousands of deaths, urged Americans Tuesday to get flu shots."

The earlier the better!

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"Italian researchers claim eating pizza regularly reduced the risk of developing throat cancer by 59 percent, a report said Tuesday." - I knew there was a reason I like pizza so much! I'll have to up my weekly dosage now.

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"It's no surprise that constant stress can make people sick, and now a team of researchers has figured out why." - Seems that stress releases a chemical called IL-6 into the blood stream. IL-6 has been associated with many life threatening ailments. How can you lower IL-6? Exercise and sleep.

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