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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 — GEORGE BALLING: Want to get better at wine? Taste with a group
We feel and always have that the most important thing to know about wine is what you like and what you don’t. Your own palate, after all, is the most important factor in selecting wine. Many wine consumers not only…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WAYNE M. FICHTER: What is cupping and does it work?
Cupping is a traditional Chinese healing art dating at least as far back as 1550 BC. Some people suggest that cupping may only have a placebo effect, but this hasn’t deterred those suffering from chronic pain from …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WENDY CUNNINGHAM: Tips for sticking to your exercise routine
Does this sound familiar? Your health care provider recommends an exercise or rehab program for you. You start the program full of enthusiasm and discipline, only to drop out after a few weeks or months. If this ha…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: Getting creative
The state by state restrictions from the coronavirus have been disruptive to most any business. The most significant dislocation though, is in the travel and tourism industry, and wine country-based businesses and …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — HOLLY CARLING: Diarrhea and constipation
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which include irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s disease, colitis, diverticulitis, gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), celiac, etc. are on the increase. These sometimes …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WAYNE M. FICHTER: New approach to back and neck pain
Spinal decompression therapy is a non-surgical, non-narcotic therapy to relieve back pain and neck pain that are commonly seen with disc injuries.
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: The most important wine flaw to know
There are many things that can go wrong in the winemaking process. Many are controllable and some are not. Wine is an organic product, and while from time to time we all might encounter a wine that is poorly made, …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WAYNE M. FICHTER: Dealing with stress or anxiety?
We all realize chiropractic care is an effective treatment for neck and low back pain as well as acute care to relieve injuries after an accident or trauma. Point blank, chiropractic care helps relieve daily aches …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — HOLLY CARLING: Hot Flashes: Not mandatory!
Good news for mature women — hot flashes aren’t a normal part of menopause! Common? Yes. Healthy? No. We have come to accept hot flashes as being a normal part of menopause when in fact it is a symptom of hormones …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial: HOLLY CARLING — The Gallbladder: Simple but important
The gallbladder is a simple organ, but not an unimportant one. When the gallbladder isn’t functioning properly, we really need to be asking WHY? Most gallbladder problems start further upstream, in the upper digest…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial: GEORGE BALLING: Wines from your past
We all have known for the full span of our wine journey that our palates change over time. During some periods we may bounce between varietals and growing regions quite rapidly as we move from wine to wine that we …
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: Wine and food
We are facing one more week of closed restaurants but as we have called around to make reservations, we have found that some of our friends in the restaurant business are extending their closures a bit beyond that.…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — HOLLY CARLING: Your amazing liver
For an organ weighing three or four pounds and about six inches, our liver is amazing! I like to compare it to the heart. The heart is incredibly complex — with four chambers, lots of vasculature, chordae, valves a…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WAYNE M. FICHTER: Flip-flops: What is the big fuss?
Minimalist footwear is the newest craze and flip–flops seem to fall under this umbrella. Flip-flops have single-handedly caused more problems with people’s feet in the last couple of years than just about any other…
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WENDY CUNNINGHAM: Antibody tests for COVID-19
Those of you who have been sick in recent months but did not get tested for COVID-19 have been left wondering whether you may have had the coronavirus. There are also those who did not get sick but may have been ex…