Your Pancreas The Body’s Quarterback
By Joen Lane, Ideal Family Weight Loss & Life Balance Center Last month we talked about carbohydrates and the effect that specific types of carbs have on your body once you ingest them. There are still many people who believe that it doesn’t really matter what we eat since everything is ultimately turned into glucose […]
Did You Get a Surprise Along With Your Pregnancy?
Submitted by Drs. Bohn, Nielsen, Castillo, Benson, and Wright, The Vein Specialists, LLC A baby bump is just one of the signs of your pregnancy. Rapidly changing hormone levels contribute to many physical changes in your body including fatigue, breast tenderness, nausea, and constipation. Not every woman experiences all these effects. Some will have one […]
PET/CT
By Nick Nelson, RT (R)(N) ARRT CNMT , PET/CT Technologist and Mary Kay Holloway, RDN CSO LDN Oncology Dietitian Your doctor just said one of the dreaded statements, “You have cancer.” Then you are sent off for a CT and PET scan. You say “okay,” but in your head you are wondering just what this […]
Healing Haiti — The Other Side Part 2
By Alexander Germanis The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence,” is an extremely common idiom in the English-speaking world. Of course, when one actually gets to the other side of that fence, reality sets in, and one realizes how fortunate one was to begin with. For instance, the Caribbean islands […]
Your Aching Back: Finding the Cause of Chronic Pain
By Becky Wiese The straw that broke the camel’s back. Like water off a duck’s back. Oh, my aching back. Backs are designed to withstand quite a lot of stress. Structurally speaking, our spine (backbone) provides structure, enabling us to move. Every twist, bend, and nod we make with our body is dependent on the […]
Foot Care Tips to Keep Boomers Moving
Submitted by Jarod Spencer, DPM and Carly Kriedberg, DPM, Heartland Foot and Ankle Associates Just a few decades ago, the phrase “granny shoes” implied a tragic lack of coolness, and that the wearer had allowed comfort to trump style in their slow shuffle toward getting old. Those days are definitely gone. Today’s baby boomers and […]
A Common Skin Condition You’ve Never Heard About
Submitted by Adrienne Schupbach, MD, Dermatology and Mohs Surgery Institute What skin condition affects an estimated 16 million Americans, more commonly occurs in women and tends to appear after age 30? If you didn’t guess “rosacea,” you’re not alone. 78 percent of Americans don’t know what this condition is despite the fact that it’s very […]
Investors Are Human, Too!
By Krista McBeath, McBeath Financial Group In 1981, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller published a groundbreaking study that contradicted a prevailing theory that markets are always efficient. If they were, stock prices would generally mirror the growth in earnings and dividends. Shiller’s research showed that stock prices fluctuate more often than changes in companies’ […]
Do Your Social Security Income and Retirement Plan Need Marriage Counseling?
By Dennis Kagel ChFC, Chartered Financial Consultant What’s more valuable, a dollar you receive from a retirement plan (401k, IRA) or a dollar you receive from Social Security? When I ask someone this, I often get a quizzical look. There is only one right answer, and it’s the Social Security dollar. The reason for this […]
Tips to Help You Fight Food Cravings Part 2 of 3
By Melinda Smith, M.A., Jeanne Segal Ph.D., and Robert Segal, M.A Editors note: Last month’s article discussed the difference between emotional eating and mindful eating. This month offers some tips to combat emotional eating. Emotional eating is turning to food for comfort, stress relief, or as a reward rather than to satisfy hunger. Mindful eating […]