Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Floods, Terrorist Attacks – Are You Prepared? By Shelley When we think emergency, we generally think that an emergency room would be the place to go to get help. With a natural disaster or a terrorist attack, an emergency room may even be...
For the past couple of weeks, I have been participating in a “blog challenge”. In this challenge, we accept the opportunity to to challenge ourselves to write a blog post on a certain schedule. Most of the participants have chosen to attempt to write a...
SURPRISING WAYS TO HELP PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS by Shelley Simply put, Osteoporosis is a degenerative disease that tends to make bones less dense and therefore weaker and more susceptible to fractures. Calcium is what we generally think of when it comes to bone...
Why Should a Caregiver Ask for Help? If you have spent any part of your life as an athlete or in an aerobics or yoga class, you know that by the time a person actually feels thirsty, their hydration is already depleted. Once it’s depleted, it takes the body...
I was visiting with a friend last evening. The weather was lovely and we were enjoying an evening of conversation on the patio: firming up the menus for 2 week-end barbecues and discussing how to entertain some visitors from Australia that I would be receiving the...
In the June 23rd edition of the Washington Post’s POSTOPINIONS, Ken Fujioka, a diabetologist and internal medicine specialist, published an article entitled “Where Are the New Obesity Drugs”. (You can read the entire article here.) In this article...