Healthy Living
How to Protect Your Child from the Flu
Families Fighting Flu, Inc., established in 2004, is made up of families and healthcare practitioners who have experienced first-hand the death of a child to the flu or witnessed severe medical complications caused by the flu.
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Knowing Your Family Medical History Could Save Your Life
When you think about what you’ve inherited from your parents and grandparents, you might think about the color of your hair and eyes, the shape of your nose and height. What you generally don’t think about is the information in your parents’ or grandparents’ DNA.
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Suffering for Beauty, So 1990s
The pursuit of everlasting youth has inspired physician-administered beauty enhancement treatments like Botox, Collagen and Restylane. However, the required injections trigger anxiety and can be painful for some patients.
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Avoid Winter Weight Gain and Have Your Comfort Foods, Too
Comfort foods are often a staple of cold-weather cuisine, warming the soul and invoking memories of winters past. For millions of Americans the winter season also signals a time to adopt healthier nutrition and physical activity as part of a resolution to lose unwanted weight. Can these things co-exist?
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Tips for Beating Winter Blues
Ten to 20 percent of the United States population may suffer from a mild form of winter blues, according to The Cleveland Clinic. Right now, the coldest part of the year, is the prime time Americans of all ages feel winter's frigid effects on their emotions and attitudes.
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Improve Indoor Air Quality Naturally
By now you've probably heard that the air in your home may actually make you sick. But did you know that a growing number of Americans are also allergic to many of the chemicals used to "clean" the air of offensive odors? Here are some hints for improving the air quality indoors.
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Get Hip to Bone Health
It's that time of year again . . . time to warm up with the weather and make good on promises to take better care of ourselves. Yet, we often end up asking ourselves the same age-old question -- where to begin? One of the easiest first steps to improving and preserving wellness starts with the very skeleton of our being -- our bones.
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Been Diagnosed with Diabetes? Be Sure to Protect Your Feet
Doctors often advise patients suffering from diabetes to wear closed-toed shoes due to side effects of the disease, which include diabetic neuropathy and infections that won't heal. But if you love wearing sandals, like Bonnie Johnson does, three's a way to get around it.
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