My daughter, Anna, is an expert at this.  She was anorexic at 12, very thin.  Her personality changed, suspicious and defensive.  Luckily, she wanted to continue to play soccer and softball so we

When my dad was in his seventies he told me that he was having trouble falling asleep.  He also became a light sleeper, any noise would wake him up and then he couldn't fall back to sleep.

Nothing is more frustrating than being completely run down while climbing into bed after a long, hard day and you cannot fall asleep.  You keep tossing and turning, looking at the clock and wonder when it will finally come. 

When will you fall asleep?  

Rheumatoid Arthritis

I was so tired at work that I would look for an empty office to lie down in after lunch.  When I went to the doctor, he took fluid from little sacks in my knees.  I had rheumatoid arthritis brought on by Lyme disease.  After taking antibiotics for the Lyme disease, 

Kris was my best friend in high school. He and his mom swallowed many pills a day which I thought was an eccentric habit of theirs, like reading Prevention magazine. I never understood how you could possibly know that you needed zinc or more vitamin B12 than you already got in your food. So I watched them, but didn't learn.

More than twenty years later, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), agreeing with