health
Happiness is a healthy heart!

February is National Heart Health Month. It’s an important time to create awareness of heart health and to take better care of ourselves, which in turn helps to reduce the alarming mortality rate from heart-related diseases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular disease is the world’s number one cause of death, killing more …
Glaucoma is a silent thief of sight.

Glaucoma has no symptoms in its early stages. In fact, half the people with glaucoma do not know they have it! Having regular eye exams can help your ophthalmologist find this disease before you lose vision. Your ophthalmologist can tell you how often you should be examined. There are two major types of glaucoma. Open-angle glaucoma …
Slow-Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chili
Carrot Cake Muffins
Thanksgiving Winter Salad
Spinach-Ricotta Stuffed Portobello Caps
Sweet Potato Nachos
Pina Colada Parfait
Back to school: It’s time to schedule your child’s yearly wellness checkup.

August is back-to-school time! As you and your child prepare for the new school year, it’s also time to schedule their yearly wellness checkup. These checkups help prepare your child for the upcoming school year with health evaluations, but also serve as a great opportunity to check on their overall physical, mental and social health. …
Turkey Sausage and Egg Casserole
Better living through chemistry

Lora Felger Polypharmacy is today’s word of the day. My Greek is good enough to know that “poly” means many. Pharmacy, well, that means drugs, right? A quick Google search tells me that polypharmacy means “the simultaneous use of multiple drugs by a single patient, for one or more conditions” and/or “the simultaneous use of …