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What's happening in our healthy community? For information and details regarding daily lifestyle, see our articles below.
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Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is a condition characterized by damage to the peripheral nerves, often manifesting as n…
Tart cherries: A functional food with many functions
Tart cherries have gained momentum as a “superfood” in recent years, most recognized as aiding athletes in exercise recovery. Although we can’t pinpoint foods as “superfoods,” we can talk about properties of foods …
Put years back on your life
I cannot turn on a TV or read a news article without seeing the latest “magic pill” promising to bring me weight loss, increase my energy, and ignite my sex drive. The vast amount of misinformation on healthy aging…
Building your collection for now and tomorrow
Shortly after each of us begins to drink wine many of us start to think about collecting wine. We find bottlings we are enamored with and think how nice it would be to have some around. Whether it be for a special …
How long does it take to get hearing aids?
It depends on what style of hearing aid you are purchasing. If you are purchasing one of the new mini BTE’s (Behind the Ear) your hearing health care office may have some in stock that you may take home that day. T…
Men's Health Month
As spring turns to summer and the weather warms, some of us may be tempted to forgo our healthy habits like ditching our workouts due to the heat, or making hamburgers, hot dogs, and beer a staple at barbecues. Whi…
Celebrating Maryhill
While many of you know of our weekly “work” tasting wine with winemakers, distributors, importers and others on our endless quest to find the best wines for our customers, from time to time we also receive packages…
High cholesterol and sleep disorders
You must sleep to maintain your overall health. Your quality of sleep has everything to do with your energy level and ability to do the things you have to do each day. If your quality of sleep is poor, you might ha…
The power of the squat
I went on a mission trip to Nepal for a month when I was an Adjunct Professor at Loma Linda University's School of Physical Therapy. They wanted us to establish a physical therapy clinic at a hospital in Benepi. In…
Atrial fibrillation and sleep disorders
Around 50 percent of those who have atrial fibrillation (AFib) also have sleep apnea. AFib is a condition where the heart beat is very abnormal; sleep apnea is a condition where breathing becomes very shallow or co…
Ask your audiologist
My husband says he can hear everything but me. Is there a hearing aid that can help him?
Why are food addictions bad?
It is well known that food is needed for a lot of physical and physiological processes in the body, but can also be used for its emotional component. Food is social, can mitigate the feelings of stress, and activat…
The annual rosé article
Memorial Day is this coming weekend, which makes it time to fire up the grill and start sampling the annual crop of newly released dry rosé. There is no better summer wine! Thankfully, the days of the cloying and s…
Spinal disc problems
Approximately 20 percent of the population has back pain. For many decades, doctors believed that most back pain was caused by “slipped” or “torn” discs. We now know this is not true. Disc problems constitute only …
'I didn't know'
Five times. How can that be? Just today I heard it five times, and I wonder how many days before that I have I heard the same thing: “I didn't know.” For me, it would be good to never hear that again from any of my…
Farm-to-table in your own backyard
Farm-to-table is a trend that is becoming increasingly popular among U.S. restaurants. What is farm-to-table? It can hold a different meaning depending on how one looks at it. A blanket meaning is the production pr…