Importance of Talking to Family About End-of-Life Wishes
Did you know that requests for living will documents often increase at Thanksgiving time through to the New Year? One company who handles this says this is their busiest time…
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Leading Controllable Factors Responsible for Half of Cancer Deaths in the US
There are over 200 different forms of cancer known to modern medicine. Many of them are quite rare which is good and bad. It’s good that few people are afflicted…
Fatty Liver? Here Are Some Tips to Help
Anyone can develop a fatty liver, but it can be more common as we get older. Causes of fatty livers are divided into 2 groups – alcoholic and nonalcoholic. Obviously,…
Living Alone Can Affect Heart Health Unless You…
In Genesis 2:18, we are told that God said it is not good for man to be alone, so he made woman from the man’s side. A good friend of…
Study Spanks Indulgent Grandparents
How many times have you heard someone say that it’s a grandparent’s right or duty to spoil and indulge their grandchildren? I heard it from one set of my grandparents…
Do You Have POTS Syndrome?
When I first saw the articles on POTS, I misread it as POTUS, referring to the President of the United States and some physical reaction to President Donald Trump. I…
Why Sudden Increase of 30 Million More Americans with High Blood Pressure?
Last week, the health news was reporting an additional 30 million American adults have high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. Why the sudden increase? The sudden increase is due…
Trump, Medicaid and Benjamin Franklin
Medicaid has been in the news lately but what do we really know about Medicaid? One might say that it is a government assistance program to help lower income and…
Understanding Eating Disorders
Two years ago, sophomore journalism student Lauren Marshall says she never would have imagined she would be struggling with an eating disorder as a college student. Marshall says an increase…
Eat this to fight aging
Mushrooms have been touted for their many medicinal qualities for years (like boosting immunity and fighting cancer), and now scientists say the wellness-promoting fungus plays a role in anti-aging, too. In a new study, Pennsylvania State University…