Most dangerous health scams (C-Health)

These alternative treatments were too good to be true--and very often life-threatening.

Health advice: 50 ways to boost your wellbeing (Daily Telegraph)

Go fly a kite join a boot camp take up hulahooping or even just rearrange the furniture - getting your mind and body into shape does not have to involve the gym.

Comfort Food for the New Economy (East Bay Express)

A good and inexpensive meal has never seemed more important than in these final hours of 2008. Sure, the election season was fun-filled and the outcome was historic and satisfying, but in a year marked by war, melting icecaps, Prop 8, Sarah Palin, Rod Blagojevich, projectile footwear, and, above all, the tanking economy, the need for culinary succor was positively essential.

American Public Health Association Adopted 12 New Policies At 2008 Annual Meeting (Medical News Today)

The American Public Health Association (APHA) recently adopted 12 policies at its 136th Annual Meeting in San Diego. The newly adopted policies address a broad range of public health issues from Vitamin D deficiency and smoking in films to reproductive health and removal of wisdom teeth.