Real Health Winter 2015
Real Health Winter 2015
In every issue of Real Health, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Features
Reading Minds
Dyslexia is described as a learning disability, but this definition adds to misunderstandings about the condition.
For Concerned Parents
Helping a child who has dyslexia can be a challenge, but there are ways to be supportive
Feast Well
How to enjoy holiday meals and still stay healthy
It’s Holiday Party Time!
Easy ways to negotiate bulging buffets, open bars and those decadent dessert platters
Crisis Interventions
Researchers are searching for new ways to help kids with sickle cell disease.
Can Sickle Cell Be Cured?
The short answer is yes. but the procedure isn’t suitable for everyone.
Growing Season
Is there any science behind the “greenhouse effect” that some swear is responsible for generating long, luscious locks?
Take the Greenhouse Effect Challenge
Try these natural products for your own hair growth experiment.
Stuff We Love-Winter 2015
A roundup of the latest must-have finds for hair, skin, health, beauty and more. These products are worth every cent.
From the Editor
Editor’s Letter-Winter 2015
Common human experiences are being culturally defined as pathological and treatable as medical conditions, a process called medicalization.
Health News
Gimme Shelter
Sustainable housing is a must for sick people to get and stay healthy.
Back and Forth
Can you return to just being HIV positive after progressing to AIDS?
Here’s a Question
If antiretroviral treatment can stop HIV transmission, why is the virus still spreading?
Frozen Solid
Protect extremities exposed to this cold-weather threat.
Enter the Dragon
Why is heroin use on the rise?
Emergency Help
ERs may help slow the rising rates of undiagnosed hepatitis C.
Aqua Vita
Water is cool, clear and key to our bodily functions.
Time to Get Sneaky
Read this if your child is tight-lipped come mealtime.
Hot News
Spicy foods may lower a person’s overall risk of death.
Joint Action
Regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do to relieve this leading cause of disability in the United States.
What’s Best
Some experts claim exercising before you eat primes the body to burn more fat.
In the Mood for Love
After a long wait, now there’s a little pink pill approved to treat low levels of sexual desire in certain women.
As a mental health professional, do you see any reason for concern about doctors prescribing a drug to women who have low sexual desire?
Dorothy Horton, PsyD, answers your questions in her latest Ask Doctor Dee column.
Thoughts
Forge a New Path
There’s a saying that nothing in life is constant except change.
The Expert Says-Winter 2015
Rabbi Sherre Hirsch suggests effective ways to prepare for transitions in your life.
Crossing a Threshold
One woman’s difficult journey from Miss to Mrs.
