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Healthy Community
What's happening in our healthy community? For information and details regarding daily lifestyle, see our articles below.
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Acupuncture: A tool for true recovery
Acupuncture has been recognized for its efficacy in addressing a wide variety of health conditions.
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Are you harming yourself and not knowing it?
The more and more I look at patients' symptoms and the amount of artificial sweeteners they consume the more I’m amazed at the connection. They get in a cycle …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — From Burgundy to Oregon, a love (hi)story about pinot noir
While I was familiar with pinot noir as a popular red wine grape, I didn't fully appreciate the fascinating history and complexity of this diva grape.
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Wine appellations: What's in a name?
When you pick up a bottle of wine, you may notice a specific appellation or geographical indication on the label denoting where the grapes were grown. But what…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — The benefits of acupuncture for headache and migraine sufferers
There are few conditions as crippling as chronic headaches or migraines, and yet there are over 47 million Americans afflicted. The easiest way to distinguish …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Proven solutions for difficult pain problems
When back pain starts to affect your daily living and quality of life it’s time to look at all your options. When your symptoms are caused by a herniated disc …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — How to hog-tie a llama
It started as a joke. In trying to come up with podcast ideas, I laughingly said “how about ‘How to Hog-Tie a Llama’!” It is now a podcast and an article!
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Beginnings
Our first column 14 years ago was a collaboration with our doctor Geoff Emry. We had decided to put together a column about the health benefits of red wine. Th…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Art over science
Wildfire and wildfire smoke are certainly issues for the farming of wine grapes, and for producing those grapes into wine. I’m not trying to be funny when I sa…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — How long-term stress increases inflammation and destroys your health
As a health practitioner, it is impossible to ignore the profound effects of stress on every symptom a patient may have. Sometimes if I don't know what to do w…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Start the school year off right: Four tips to school backpack safety
School is only a few weeks away, so back to school shopping has begun. Selecting the right backpack is crucial to your child’s health. Many parents are not awa…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — New for fall
I know, I know the title sounds more like a column on apparel than wine, but as is true for most wine consumers our preferences change for both apparel and win…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Don’t shoot the messenger
Frequently we hear the meme “Don’t shoot the messenger!” when the bearer of bad news is blamed or lashed out against. The emotions attached can be hostile or j…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Then versus now
We have always marveled at how adept winemakers and grape growers are at adjusting to all that a vintage hurls at them. There are few truly “perfect” growing y…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Four tips for dealing with menopausal hot flashes and night sweats, naturally
Menopause is defined as the cessation of menstrual cycles, with an average age of onset in the United States of 51. The transition into menopause can last as l…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Does vitamin D supplements protect against colds and flu?
Living in the beautiful northwest like we do, odds are that you don’t get enough vitamin D. The same holds true if you don’t get outside for at least a 15-minu…