Here’s How to Stay Healthy Although dramatic headlines and lead stories on television focus on overwhelmed hospitals, emergency rooms, and morgues, here’s a fact: the great majority of Covid-19 cases are mild to moderate, and most people will recover without medical assistance… at home. Here’s another fact: the disease is most commonly transmitted at home, […]

Making Sense & Assuming Leadership The physical symptoms of the pandemic-provoked health issues and social measures (i.e., lockdown, confinement at home, no school, social distancing, etc.) have been and continue to be well documented. Not so much the mental health issues. Although we recognize how both bear on each other, mental health problems may be

Celebrating Earth Day During the Pandemic How The Environment Affects Your Health and Wellbeing Earth Day will take place on Wednesday April 22nd, marking its 50th anniversary. This global day of activism roots for environmental protection and sustainability. Earth Day Network has estimated that over 1 billion people partake every year in the activities organized

A Few Facts First… 1. Full Virus Name: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Related Coronavirus 2 2. Popular Name: Coronavirus 3. Associated Disease: COVID-19 (the 19 stands for the virus mutation uncovered in 2019) 4. Why Corona: The spikes that surround the virus cell are equated to a crown (of thorns) or a corona (a halo of

Paraskevidekatriaphobia. A mouthful of that equates to fear of Friday the 13th. This is closely linked to yet another tongue twister, Triskaidekaphobia, which is defined as the fear of the number 13, driving countless denizens worldwide to avoid this number in any aspect of their lives at all costs. Origins From Judas Iscariot sitting in

Riding on the back of the March 8 International Women’s Day celebration, later converted into Women’s History Week, March was officialized by the US Congress as Women’s History Month in 1987. This hugely successful initiative attempts to educate the public on women’s achievements and contributions to American history, as well as celebrate womanhood. Different groups,

February 24 – March 1 Known also by its acronym, NEDA, National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is set for February 24 to Mach 1 in 2020. This heightened awareness week, and the events surrounding it, aim to disparage the busload of myths and misunderstandings surrounding eating disorders, its causes, possible solutions, and bad or misinterpreted

Millions of Americans save the date for Super Bowl Sunday—Super Bowl weekend, really. As a nation, we block the calendar to let loose and let the emotions flow. Aaahhhh, the ecstatic feelings of belonging to a team, a cheering crowd, our group of rowdy buddies, wildly giving in to fandom and community, the very essence

January is and has been the National Blood Donor Month since 1970. Apparently, one of the main reasons for choosing this month is that collecting blood and blood products or components —red cells, platelets and plasma— from the population at large is hardest during the Winter months. Quite a few blood drives get cancelled for