Health

That ‘Other’ Male Cancer

Testicular malignancies affect a younger demographic than prostate tumors

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Elyse Glickman, Special Sections Feature

Prostate cancer and PSA scores have gotten a lot of airtime and print for a variety of reasons, ranging from media exposure like pharmaceutical ads to celebrity survivors of the illness. Testicular cancer may not have as much media play at the moment or as many diagnoses (8,000 new diagnoses every year, compared to 200,000 for prostate cancer), but its...

Healthy Eating

Binge Eating at the Office: Try Working It Out

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Elyse Glickman

People who went away to college probably recall the “Freshman 15,” and not very fondly. This phenomenon, where college students gain weight during their first year, is not just traced to easier access to junk food, but also tied to their adjusting to the higher stress of the university environment. They may eventually recover in time for their sophomore year,...

Health

Playing Fast and Easy With Yom Kippur Holiday

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Lisë Stern, JNS.org

On the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 25, Jews around the world will begin the annual fast of Yom Kippur, abstaining from eating and drinking. “We devote an entire 24 to 26 hours to reflecting,” says Rabbi Sander Mussman, education director emeritus for Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook, Ill. “How can we do that? By not being concerned with how we...

Healthy Eating

Keeping the Scale Balanced Even During the High Holidays

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Deborah Beck Busis, Jewish Exponent Feature

It is possible to celebrate the High Holidays without gaining weight. But for this to happen, people, especially those who have a propensity to gain weight, need a plan for how they'll handle their eating. Why? Because "winging it" invariably leads to overeating. When people are hesitant or unmotivated to devise an eating plan for the High Holidays, it's important...

Health

Eleven Years Later

How Sept. 11 still shapes our mind and everyday actions

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Elyse Glickman, Jewish Exponent Feature

Every generation has its “Where were you? …” moments when everything Americans think we believe about reality shifts and transforms into something else. For our grandparents, it could have been the start of the Depression or Pearl Harbor Day (Dec. 6, 1941). For our parents, the 1960s were fraught with thunder strikes, including the deaths of the Kennedys and Martin...