Cover Story
Phyllis Diller - Life is fun
“Everybody should enjoy a joke a day, laugh frequently, and smile lots,” says the delightful Phyllis Diller. Perhaps it is this advice that has contributed to her own longevity, as she prepares to celebrate her 90th birthday in July 2007...
Patricia Kirby
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Health
Skin
Separating the facts from fiction for skin cancer prevention
Skin cancers are most likely to occur in those with fair skin, light-colored eyes, blonde or red hair and a tendency to freckle or burn in sunlight. I call these the Barbie doll risk factors.
Skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the United States with over one million new cases reported annually. One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in his/her lifetime, and the incidence is rising worldwide. However, most skin cancers are preventable. Much has been published on the topic, so it is imperative to clarify facts from fiction to implement prevention strategies and skin cancer risk.
Eve Lowenstein
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Nutrition
Sorting out the Whole Grain Truth
Bread or cereal that is brown in no way should be presumed to be whole grain ...
Are you, like me, in search of the nutritional truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? If yes, then continue reading. You will learn all about the grain, the whole grain, and more about the grain as we unsheathe the grain and discover its nutritional wealth.
Samuel Grief
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Endocrine
Chronic Kidney Disease: A Silent, Yet Lethal Complication of Diabetes
Diabetes affects the tiny blood vessels in the kidneys called glomeruli, initiating the development of chronic kidney disease. This quiet process decreases the filtering efficiency of the bean-shaped organs and may eventually result in kidney failure and dialysis.
Karen A. Thomas
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Pharmacy
For Best Results TIME MEDICATIONS PROPERLY
Medications are typically dispensed with a detailed patient information sheet. Patients should read these!
Tamara Dulin
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Virus
Summer Colds
No matter how big or small, deviated or straight it is,rhinovirus thinks your nose is just perfect
Dr. Anne Phelan-Adams
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Gynecology
When it comes to ovarian cancer screening we’re not there, yet
Ovarian cancer is truly a devastating disease and is one of the leading causes of cancer death in women.
Until fairly recent times, hardly a week would go by when I did not receive an email, forwarded multiple times as a rule, that implored me to “ask my doctor” to order a CA-125 test for ovarian cancer...
Jacqueline S. Thompson
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Eyes
Glaucoma, a sneaky disease
Glaucoma is one of the diseases that can damage your optic nerve. Even though there may be nothing wrong with your eye or your brain, if your eye cannot send images to your brain through a broken optic nerve, you cannot see clearly...
Bradley J. Katz
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Healing
Skin
The ABC's of Chemical Peels
The variety and effectiveness of chemical peels make them one of the most important tools in skin rejuvenation and the treatment of wrinkles, scars, and skin discoloration.
Jon Mendelsohn
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Muscles
Muscular Pain ...Education, Prevention & Healing
Healthiness, whether in the whole individual or in specific organ systems (muscle is an organ system) depends upon a balance between healing processes and cellular deteriorative processes. When healing processes cannot keep up with deteriorative processes, then the balance shifts to a state of sub-optimal health in the involved muscles...
E. Franklin Livingstone
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Alternative Medicine
House Calls
Q: I went to see my urologist for difficulty in urinating. He examined my prostate, which was enlarged, and my PSA was borderline high at 4.0. Is there anything I can take instead of a prescription medication?
R: Prostate disease is very common. More than 200,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007, and more than 45.000 will die from it. Prostate cancer has touched the lives of high profile people, such as Arnold Palmer, Bob Dole, and Frank Zappa...
Patrick Fratellone
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Patient Rights
Improving Patient-Physician Connectivity: The Personal Medical Record
Most patients overlook one of the most important benefits you can give yourself to ensure high quality personal healthcare. For any physician, the very first necessity before identifying and finding solutions for your medical needs is obtaining an accurate medical history of both current and previously established medical problems...
M. Tray Dunaway
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Ears
Tinnitus: The Noise From Inside the Head
Repeated exposure to loud noises such as from iPods, radios, televisions, hair dryer, concerts, and sporting events will have a cumulative damaging effect on the hearing nerve....
Ho-Sheng Lin,
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Coming Soon
- Taking a flu shot…not taking a flu shot
How Important Are Immunizations?
- "Pill Endoscopy" …no need to SMILE for this camera
- An alternative approach to menopause
- Treatment and prevention of Osteoporosis
- Beauty is in the eye…cosmetic uplifts
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Happiness
Physical Fitness
Get more from your EXERCISE BALL!
Using the ball can help improve flexibility, develop muscle tone and stretch the back and abdominal muscles.
You have seen them in gyms, in therapy sessions, and even in daycare centers. They come in a variety of colors and sizes, and they are bigger than a beach ball and a lot firmer too. They are called exercise balls.
Francine Milford
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Nutrition
From the Kitchen of Connie Trinkle
The ladies in my neighborhood like to get together a couple of times a month to have a girl’s day. There are about 12 of us gals all together. We have been known to take a boat tour of Cataract Lake, pop in on a Ladies Fitness Center or create a craft. And when we all go together, it is always sure to be a great time...
Connie Trinkle
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Wellbeing
Relationships Are Inside
As we live and experience life, events thoughts, and feelings are recorded inside, internalized forever, barring physical damage to our Nervous System. These events, sometimes simple sometimes extremely complex, come together inside and become connected to make one unified and integrated human being leading to autonomy. In some people, these events may continue to seem separate, wall off, go underground, and develop a life of their own...
Nicholas E. Stratas
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Plant Therapy
Creating a delightful Perennial Garden
Planting perennials is a terrific way to exercise your creativity, which ultimately will result in a healthier you - both emotionally and physically...
Fran Sorin
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Travel
Fresh from America... Food Capitals, Festivals and Related Fun
From hot buttered lobsters to marinated artichoke hearts to creamy key lime pie, the promise of tasting regional cookery is one of travel’s best benefits. Here’s a cross-country sampler of ‘capital’ locales that gained their claim to fame with signature crops and catches, memorable hometown recipes, and spirited food festivals...
Paula Leohr
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Pet Relationships
Heat Stroke and your Pets
Because dogs don’t sweat, except for some from their paw pads; they don’t cool as efficiently as people do, and they are more susceptible to heat stroke...
Steve Dale
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Regular Features
From the Publisher’s Desk
Never Forget...
Dara was a poor shepherd from a Persian countryside. He was a bright lad but the responsibilities of taking care of his parents, aging grandparents, and ten siblings had forced him to the fields to work in the same capacity that his family had for generations. He felt if he explored other opportunities there would be no food on the family’s table. He did what needed to be done. One day while grazing the goats, a mountain lion attacked a procession passing near his herd. Dara went after the mountain lion with his staff, but the lion turned on Dara and pinned him to the ground. Then Dara with his great physical strength and might was able to pull his dagger and kill the lion...
Dev Anuroop Brar
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Pitter from Pat
Just Keep It Simple!
How can that small gray box that sits on my desktop, conjure up such emotion within me? I have heard of love/hate relationships but never put much belief into such a thing until I became involved in an affair with technology. How I LOVE my computer when I turn it on and it fires right up and locates all the incidental trivia that I could ever want to know. But how I HATE it when it spews out questions that I don’t understand, like “You are attempting to open a ???? file; do you want to run or save? Run or save? I just want to read the darn thing! And how about those queries… “Do you want to report this problem to Microsoft?” I finally sent one once…never heard a word back...
Patricia Kirby
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