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Did you know that the month of May includes 35 national health observances?

14-May-2008

Did you know that the month of May includes 35 national health observances? Each year, the National Health Information Center compiles a calendar of health observances. Specific days, weeks, or an entire month is devoted to a specific health concern. The complete calendar is available at: http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/

While Parks Library is not a medical library, the library collection contains numerous items related to health and medicine. The following list highlights some of the May 2008 health observances and features books that can be found at the Library:

National High Blood Pressure Education Month

• WomenHeart's All Heart Family Cookbook: Featuring the 40 Foods Proven to Promote Heart Health by Kathy Kastan and Suzanne Banfield with Wendy Leonard. PARKS Leisure Collection RC684 D5 K37 2008
• Treating the Aching Heart: A Guide to Depression, Stress, and Heart Disease by Lawson R.Wulsin. PARKS General Collection RC682 W85 2007

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

• Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes by Gregg Mitman. PARKS General Collection RC589 M58 2007

Mental Health Month

• Depression, The Mood Disease by Francis Mark Mondimore. PARKS General Collection RC537 M65 2006
• The Bipolar Teen: What you Can Do to Help Your Child and Your Family by David J. Miklowitz & Elizabeth L. George. PARKS General Collection RJ506 D4 M55 2008

On a local note, be sure to celebrate National Employee Health and Fitness Day on Wednesday, May 21, 2008! All Iowa State University employees are encouraged to visit the health fair at Great Hall in Memorial Union between 11:30 am - 1:30 pm. The health fair will include fitness assessments, blood pressure screening, and lots of free information related to health and nutrition. There will also be a drawing for HyVee gift cards. The library collection has a wide variety of books, including a large number of cookbooks, related to health and nutrition:

• An Apple a Day: The Myths, Misconceptions and Truths About the Foods we Eat by Joe Schwarcz. PARKS Leisure Collection TX355 S39x 2007
• Cleveland Clinic Healthy Heart Lifestyle Guide and Cookbook by Bonnie Sanders Polin and Frances Towner Giedt. PARKS General Collection RC684 D5 P65 2007
• American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide by Roberta Larson Duyff. PARKS General Collection RA784 D89 2006
• The Insulin-Resistance Diet: How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat Making Machine by Cheryle R. Hart and Mary Kay Grossman. PARKS Leisure Collection RM222.2 H256 2008

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Are you curious to learn more about prominent science faculty at ISU? In honor of the Sesquicentennial, University Archives has compiled information about some of ISUs notable faculty and staff. These are a few examples:

• Griffith J. Buck - Department of Horticulture, rose and geranium breeding
• Charles Edwin Bessey - Department of Botany, established the herbarium at ISU
• Paul Lester Errington - Department of Zoology, vertebrate ecology and population dynamics
• Henry Gilman - Department of Chemistry, organometallic chemistry and a Manhattan Project consultant
• Ada Hayden - Department of Botany, avid plant specimen collector
• Anson Marston - Department of Civil Engineering, supervised Campanile construction
• Nellie May Naylor - Department of Chemistry, second woman to hold faculty rank in the department
• Raymond Allen Packer - College of Veterinary Medicine, veterinary bacteriology and veterinary medicine history
• Louis H. Pammel - Department of Botany, instrumental in the creation of Iowa's state park law
• Orland Russell Sweeney - Department of Chemical Engineering, chemical warfare and utilization of agricultural waste products

More information: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/history/people.html

Visit the University Archives, Special Collections Department at Parks Library to view personal papers and other items associated with the above scientists. The department is open from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday.