Health and Fitness

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to sinus infections (sinusitis) caused by colds, flu, allergies or air pollution. The best ways to prevent and treat sinusitis are often the cheapest and simplest rather than reaching for antibiotics. Nasal irrigation The most effective prevention and treatment is nasal irrigation. Clean your nasal passages to remove crud every day by using your neti pot or syringe to flush warm water mixed with salt through each nostril. Stir one teaspoon of salt into two cups of lukewarm water. Use at least one full neti pot or syringe per nostril. Keeping the nose clean will create an environment where germs are less likely to hang out. Full Article…

For about 20 minutes in the early 90′s, I worked at a commercial gym where we had meetings that were supposed to get us fired up about personal training. Not about conducting inspiring and effective sessions, but about selling the sessions as if our lives depended on it. Get people to sign up, doesn’t matter how.

There’s an oft-quoted scene in the movie of Glengarry Glen Ross in which the Alec Baldwin character–an unabashedly venal, ball-busting, heartless jerk–exhorts his staff of low-rent real estate scammers to “Practice the A-B-C’s of sales: Always Be Closing.”

When the sales-team leader guy at my gym quoted that scene sans irony, I realized it was time for me to hit the road.

One of the techniques he encouraged us to use was the old either-or scam.

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Gary R. Roberts, dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, says many former players have already sued the league on this issue, and many more potentially could. A hearing on Jan. 26 will involve whether some of these federal lawsuits should be consolidated.

Roberts was the official on-air legal analyst for the NFL Network with respect to the antitrust labor dispute that threatened to cancel the 2011-12 professional football season. The dispute came to an end in August when the league and union signed a new collective bargaining agreement.

Roberts, recognized as one of the foremost experts on sports law and antitrust law in the country, practiced at the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C.

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Hospitals are too loud, and patients sleep could be suffering because of it, suggests a new study.

According to World Health Organization recommendations, noise in hospital rooms generally shouldnt get above 30 to 40 decibels. But researchers at one hospital reported that the average noise level in patients rooms was close to 50 decibels, and sometimes spiked as high as 80 decibels – almost as loud as a chainsaw, they said.

The hospital environment is certainly not a restful environment, said Dr. Vineet Arora, from the University of Chicago.

In a study of about 100 adult patients at their medical center, she and her colleagues found that noise levels in patients rooms at night tended to be lower than during the day, but almost always exceeded recommendations for average and maximum noise level.

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