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Healthy Eating and Alzheimer’s Disease

Eating healthy foods helps everyone stay well. It’s even more important for people with Alzheimer’s disease. Here are some tips for healthy eating. Buying and preparing food When the person with Alzheimer’s disease lives with you, the following recommendations will help to maintain a healthy diet. Buy healthy foods such as vegetables, fruits, and whole-grain products. Be sure […]

Foreign Bodies in Your Eye Can Be Minor or Devastating

By James Wilson, OD, Bond Eye Associates So, you feel like there’s something in your eye. Let’s start with a very important question. How did it happen, and when? Did it fall or get blown into your eye, or was it driven in at high speed (tools, perhaps)? Next, is it metal, organic, or inert? […]

New Hypertension Guidelines

By Linda Snyder, Senior Care Advocate, Villas of Holly Brook Having high blood pressure puts you at risk for heart disease and stroke, which are leading causes of death in the United States. About 75 million American adults (32 percent) have high blood pressure — that’s one in every three adults. Only about half (54 percent) of people with high blood pressure […]

Koala Kidz: Is There HELP Before BRACES?

Submitted by Koala KIDZzz® For most parents, braces seem to be the appropriate treatment option when their child has crooked teeth. Braces may not address all issues associated with growth and development. Crooked teeth may just be a symptom of an underlying growth concern regarding the facial bones and structures. Other possible symptoms include mouth […]

Give a Caregiver a Break

By Steven Buttice, Founder and President, Living By Your Design, Inc. We are headed into the holiday season; children are thinking of Christmas presents, parents of family gatherings. Even with the joy of the season, we are also a year older and, in some cases, a little less “festive” as we were last year. The […]

Wound Care Program Recognized for Excellence at Lutheran Hillside Village

Submitted by Craig Workman Lutheran Hillside Village has been certified by Vohra Wound Physicians as a Center of Excellence for Wound Management. Since 2017, Lutheran Hillside Village has partnered with Dr. Christopher Dickinson, a Vohra wound physician, to create an interdisciplinary team that works with primary care physicians, physical therapists, staff nurses, and other specialists […]

You May Be the Cure Someone Is Waiting for!

Submitted by BE The Match Maureen Leuba’s journey battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia was a defining moment in her life. She is not alone. Every three minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer or other blood disease that requires a blood stem cell transplant to survive. Unfortunately, 70 percent of patients […]

Food Myths Eating Gluten Free and Going Vegetarian: Is It Any Healthier?

Myth 1: Choosing foods that are gluten-free will help you eat healthier. Fact: Gluten-free foods are not healthier if you don’t have celiac disease or are not sensitive to gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye grains. A healthcare professional is likely to prescribe a gluten-free eating plan to treat people who have celiac disease […]

Prospering in Health and Spirit Apostolic Christian Home of Eureka

By Alexander Germanis While the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, they were taught a vital lesson: in order to live life to its fullest, simply staying well fed is not enough. “…Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth […]