daily tips covering health and wellness topics written by Harvard Medical School physicians. Health Tip of the Day can enhance a website, electronic newsletter or a print calendar as a way to achieve daily reinforcement of a brand or message. Gardeners need to be on the lookout for the tiny ticks that transmit Lyme disease. A study done in Chester County, Pa., found that people who garden more than four hours per week were at higher risk of acquiring the disease.Clothing is a more reliable way to protect your skin from the sun than sunscreen. Tighter weaves and darker colors offer more protection. A typical white T-shirt has an SPF of only five - and if it's wet, considerably less.Chocolate-lovers with lactose intolerance will be happy to know that Finnish researchers published a study showing that the lactose in milk chocolate didn't bother people who said they were lactose intolerant.Stealth Health" movement, sneaking healthy habits into our daily living is easier than we think.
"You can infuse your life with the power of prevention incrementally and fairly painlessly, and yes, doing something, no matter how small, is infinitely better for you than doing nothing," says David Katz, MD, MPH, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center and of the Yale Preventive Medicine Center. Katz is also co-author of the book Stealth Health: How to Sneak Age-Defying, Disease-Fighting Habits into Your Life without Really Trying.
From your morning shower to the evening news, from your work commute to your household chores, Katz says, there are at least 2,400 ways to sneak healthy activities into daily living.
"If you let yourself make small changes, they will add up to meaningful changes in the quality of your diet, your physical activity pattern, your capacity to deal with stress, and in your sleep quality -- and those four things comprise an enormously powerful health promotion that can change your life," says Katz.
And yes, he says, a nap on the couch can be a health-giving opportunity -- particularly if you aren't getting enough sleep at night.
