Magazine Monday: Clean Eating

Clean Eating is a magazine that focuses on healthful cooking.

The latest issue contains articles on barbecue, tacos, affordable meals for your family, and lots of recipes.  If you're looking for fun new ideas for delicious recipes that are good for you, this is the magazine for you!

You can find current and past issues in the Science and Technology Room at Central Library.  This magazine can go anywhere in the Library, but does not leave.  Stop by to read it (and use the handy photocopier just steps away to scan and email articles to yourself -- for free!) and get some great ideas about recipes and ways to fuel your body healthfully.

Yoga at the Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden, in partnership with Aetna, brings free yoga classes to the public during the month of August.  Every Wednesday morning at 7:30, join other yoga enthusiasts for a free class that is open to the public.  There are also classes Tuesday evenings for Garden and Aetna/Coventry members.  More information can be found here.  That page also includes a link to a walking meditation tour that is free to download and enjoy.

Periodicals: a great source of up-to-date information

In addition to books, movies, and music, the Library has magazines.  Some are part of the reference collection, while others (at the Branches and in Central's café) can be checked out.  The Science and Technology Room at the Central Library houses health information, so that is where you will find the health-related magazines.
















And not just magazines; because health information is constantly changing (and hopefully improving), some of the books are also periodically published, whereas others have new editions at less predictable intervals.  For example, the Physician's Desk Reference has a new edition every year, whereas the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is revised as needed.

Here is a list of the health-related magazines available for perusal.  Stay tuned for reviews of these periodicals.

Clean Eating
Consumer Reports On Health
Family Safety and Health
Gluten-free Living
Harvard Health Letter
Health
New England Journal of Medicine
Nutrition Action
Nutrition Today
Prevention
Townsend Letter
WebMD
Well Being Journal
Women's Health

Home safety

There are lots of things we can do to be safe at home; taking preventative measures is smart.

This home safety checklist from FEMA is a good place to start.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission offers safety alerts, guides, posters, brochures, handbooks and other materials here, covering electrical safety, safe cooking, indoor air pollution, smoke alarms, and more.

For books at the Library, try The home security handbook: expert advice for keeping safe at home (and away) by Lynne Finch or Survival mom: how to prepare your family for everyday disasters and worst-case scenarios by Lisa Bedford.

Stress awareness

The Cancer Support Community offers Mindfulness Practice: Managing Stress
With Present Moment Awareness on Monday, August 1 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Learn to relax and stay in the moment using mindfulness meditations.  The session will include information, strategies for integrating mindfulness into your day, and a practice.  It is open to anyone affected by cancer (patients, family and friends, bereaved).

Contact the Cancer Support Community at here.
314-238-2000,  or sign up online

Reminder on sleep

Sleep is too important to forget about, so here is a gentle reminder.

Ariana Huffington has been making the rounds of talk shows and radio programs, promoting her (relatively) new book on the importance of sleep.  Have you checked it out?  The Library has it in 4 formats (print and audio, and ebook and eaudio).

This article has a video of Huffington talking about sleep, as well another video with Russell Foster, who talks about why we sleep.  Learn fascinating tidbits about what the brain does during sleep, including information processing and memory consolidation.  Did you know that some parts of the brain are more active during sleep than while awake?

Sweet dreams!

Shoot for the Moon!

As mentioned in this post last month, the Cancer Moonshot has commenced.  That single day in June was neither the beginning nor the end of the Moonshot.  The Summit was one day in a project that started with the President's State of the Union on January 12, 2016, and will continue for the rest of the decade.

For more information, check out this infographic from the Mesothelioma + Asbestos Awareness Center!  To learn even more about the moonshot and how it impacts rare cancers click here.