Healthy Community
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…
How parents can help their children hone study skills ... and life skills too!
Organization, time management, note taking and strategic reading are all essential study skills that are first introduced to young people in the classroom, but ultimately transfer far beyond school. To help your ch…
Spring is coming: Time to transition your activities outdoors and injury free
No more excuses. Spring is almost here, and it's just about time to get out and enjoy the outdoors.
Early results
Within the last month or so we have begun to see the early results of the troubled 2010 vintage so here's an update on what we are seeing or more accurately tasting. Since the 2010s have started to be released we h…
Wearing your baby
Over the years we have discussed numerous activities and the effects of those activities on your spinal health. Some of those topics have included sitting on a wallet in your back pocket, carrying a heavy purse ove…
Low dose to no dose is no good
Doctors may prescribe a low-dose aspirin regimen to patients who have experienced heart attacks or strokes. Not only can a daily "baby" aspirin help prevent a second heart attack or stroke, it may also reduce the c…
Daydreaming or inability to maintain concentration?
As a child, I rarely got into trouble unless it was for "daydreaming." Daydreaming isn't always bad. Daydreaming can be pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, realistic future planning, a review of past memories, o…
The skinny on Weight Loss: Part VI
Normal weight obesity
Don't overdo it
Sometimes we are presented with situations that cause us to push our body to its maximum potential. These situations can come in many forms and be as simple as shoveling off the driveway after a heavy fall of snow …
Is obesity the government's business?
How much does the obesity epidemic in this country influence government and health care? That is the question currently being debated by decision makers, health-care providers, politicians and consumers.
Headaches are not normal
"I don't have headaches much... only two or three times a week." When I hear these words from patients I realize how we often ignore or force through symptoms until they "scream" at us or become chronic pain so we …
Pinnacle helps achieve complete wellness
No matter your age, gender or lifestyle, all of us will experience pain at some time in our lives.
Appellation matters
Our shop has been open nearly four and a half years now and when we first started putting together the wine collection, admittedly my knowledge of the Northwest appellations could be held in a thimble.
Lymph system, what?
The Lymph system is a major system in our body that probably is the least understood and one of the systems that is barely talked about in health care today. However, really it is of vital importance on a daily bas…
On RD Day and every day, registered dietitians celebrated as leaders in improving America's health
March is National Nutrition Month, when the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association) reminds everyone to return to the basics of healthy eating. It is also a time when the aca…
Ideal conditions
We have talked much about the difficult growing conditions that existed during the 2010 and 2011 vintages for the wine grape growing appellations in the Western U.S., from cooler than normal overall growing seasons…