Health and Wellness Content Spotlight: The Week of June 5, 2006

Information About How to Keep You Home Safe and Healthy, a Look at the Nutritional Value of Bee Pollen, and an Introduction to a New CP with Strong Health and Wellness Submissions

This week, some fascinating submissions to the Health and Wellness Category caught my eye. The articles I have chosen to spotlight this week taught me some new information, provided me with valuable nutritional guidance, and gave me food for thought about the advancements in scientific exploration of some very timely medical concerns.

In her article “How to Maintain a Healthy and Safe Home,” Associated Content writer Maryellen Cicione imparts the importance of performing a regular health and safety examination of your home. Some home safety guidelines and simple tests that can ensure that her readers’ homes are free from some commonly overlooked toxins and safety hazards are described, and she passes on important information about exposure to potentially deadly poisons that are found in many homes.

Some of the home health and safety issues Cicione explores include proper smoke detector placement and maintenance, carbon monoxide detection, lead detection, radon monitoring, and asbestos inspection. She also shares valuable information about the adverse effects these poisons have on the body, and the signs and symptoms of exposure. Cicione’s article is well written and informative, and should be required reading for anyone living in a home built before lead and asbestos were discovered to be poisonous.

A frequent contributor of content to the Health and Wellness section, writer Kassidy Emerson submitted a piece this week about the health benefits of one of the only nutritional substances that some people believe human beings could live solely upon, if necessary.