Eating more fruits, veggies changes woman’s life
Published: December 15. 2008 12:01AM
Bonnie Little didn’t think her size was a problem, even when she weighed close to 300 pounds.
Climbing staircases did leave her winded, and she fell asleep almost every time she sat in a comfortable chair.
“I figured that I was just getting old,” said Little, 62. “I didn’t feel unhealthy.”
But when Little visited her doctor in February, the Albion Borough Read the rest of this entry »
Gophers men’s hockey coach Don Lucia never has missed a game because of illness in 22 seasons as a head coach at three colleges.
That streak might end tonight when the Gophers play Brown in the second game of the Dodge Holiday Classic at Mariucci Arena.
Lucia has made only one brief appearance this week at the rink because of an undisclosed medical problem. Whether Lucia returns tonight depends on his health.
“He is not sure how he will be feeling, Read the rest of this entry »
February 17, 2009 The International Chiropractors Association (ICA) will host the 17th Annual ICA Symposium on Natural Fitness March 6-8 in Columbus, Ohio. The event will feature Arnold Schwarzenegger and will be held in conjunction with the worlds largest fitness festival, the Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness Weekend.
The symposium will include Franco Columbo, DC, who has won every major title in body building
and power lifting and who is Read the rest of this entry »
Agnesian HealthCare will be handing out 3,000 red roses today to bring awareness to women’s heart care.
Roses will be handed out by Agnesian volunteers, employees and providers, all wearing red.
Red Rose Day is aimed at bringing women’s heart care education to the local community throughout February as part of American Heart Month.
Heart disease is a greater risk to women than breast cancer, but relatively few women know this, according to an Read the rest of this entry »
February 11, 2009 10:06 a.m. EST
Miami, FL (AHN) – The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to take the diet supplement marketed under the name Venom Hyperdrive 3.0 because it contains an undeclared drug that can increase heart rate and blood pressure.
The company that makes the supplement, Applied Lifescience Research Industries, from Oak View, Calif., recalled the product after an FDA analysis found the presence of the drug, sibutramine. Read the rest of this entry »
For Dr. Harvey Benovitz, who graduated from medical school in 1962, it is as profound a shift in the way he treats patients as advances in
drugs.
in his small, meticulous handwriting, Dr. Benovitz, whose patients have always thought of him as a reassuringly old-fashioned internist, tapped a patient’s
and other vitals into a laptop next to the examining table during a checkup the other day.
Not only will this new electronic record-keeping Read the rest of this entry »