Strike a pose - there's a style of yoga for everyone

Alexa Frazelle, 10, sat cross-legged atop her bed Thursday morning with a Wii controller in her hands and a smile on her face as she pounded her father, Randy Frazelle, in a friendly game of Mario Party 8. But she wasn't on her bed at home. She was on her bed in her room at Children's Hospital of Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. The Wii system, which doubles as a DVD player, is known as the "Fun Center" and is available to help pass the sometimes scary and uncertain hours of children in the hospital.

You're young and surging with hormones. You feel great, like you can do anything. The last thing in the world you want to do is go to bed. Bed is for babies, they say. And teens, you should say. Teens actually need at least nine hours of sleep each and every night - not five hours on school nights and 12 hours on the weekends.

State governments are increasingly passing laws that require children younger than 8 ride in a car seat or booster seat. But safety experts recommend keeping kids in booster seats even longer – until they’re tall enough to fit correctly in an adult seat belt, usually at 4 feet 9 inches tall and between 8 and 12 years of age.

U.S servicemen and women who suffer facial injuries in combat may be eligible for free reconstructive medical care through a national group of plastic surgeons. About 170 doctors with the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery are participating in the new Faces of Honor program, which was launched in October. The program complements the academy's Face to Face program, which began in 1992 and provides free medical care to victims of domestic violence and children overseas who suffer facial deformities.

Garlic’s reputation has promoted more than 2,500 health studies, but most are for marketing, not medical science.

With concerns rising about health care costs and insurance, a number of employers are taking steps to improve workers' health by implementing wellness programs and encouraging lifestyle changes that reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and other kinds of illness.

If there was one thing you could do to help prevent cancer, heart disease and stroke, would you do it? And what if this thing would save you almost $2,000 a year? Sounds like a great deal, sign me up! If you are one of the more than 40 million adults in the United States who smoke, you know what this one thing is ... to quit smoking.

I have done a non-scientific study concerning a specific aspect of child development that has interested me since I was raising my own children. The subject is: How do you stop children and adolescents from saying "yea" and start using the word "yes"?

American kids watch way too much TV, nearly an average of four hours of TV, DVDs and videos per day. Half of American households have their TV on "most of the time," and two thirds have it on during mealtimes. This issue is worsened by the two thirds of kids ages 8 to 18 who have a TV in their bedroom, which increases TV viewing an average of one to two hours per day.

It is no secret that I love to exercise; running, jumping, leaping and heaving anything that isn't bolted down is my sport, and there is no off season.