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  • Preventing Cancer: What To Eat for a Healthy Colon

    Colorectal cancer remains one of the most preventable yet deadly cancers in the U.S. While treatments have advanced, research consistently shows that preventive measures, especially those focused on nutrition, may play a vital role in reducing the risk of colorectal cancer.

  • Fight Chronic Inflammation by Watching What You Eat

    What is chronic inflammation? Usually, when your immune system detects a foreign invader — pollen, viruses or bacteria and chemicals — your body’s defenses send antibodies and increased blood flow to the trouble spots to assist with healing. But for some people, that defensive response gets stuck in high gear, even after the threat is gone. This leaves the body in a perpetual, stressed out “fight” mode, which can lead to serious illness.  

  • Building Bridges Between EMS and ER Team Helps Patients

    When someone has a medical emergency and can’t get to the hospital on their own, an ambulance with a paramedic accompanies them, providing medical treatment until the person is under the care of the emergency room staff. But what happens when that ambulance rolls up to the ER entrance?

  • Eat the Rainbow With These Strategies and Recipes

    It’s simple: the more colorful your plate, the more nutritious your meal. And now is a great time to ask yourself if you’re eating enough fruits and vegetables. Your food doesn’t need to match all the colors in the rainbow, but the more variety, the better chance you’ll be consuming plenty of cancer-fighting nutrients. Increasing your fruit and vegetable intake doesn’t just help reduce your risk of developing cancer, it also may lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. 

  • What To Eat if You Have an Overactive Bladder

    An overactive bladder can be inconvenient and embarrassing because you don’t have control over when you need to go. But eating certain types of foods – and avoiding others -- can help with your symptoms. 

  • Is Tea a Superfood? What You Should Know

    People have been drinking tea for centuries, but today you can skip the sipping altogether and swallow tea pills, bite into tea-chocolate truffles and scoop up tea-laced ice cream. Retail products on store shelves entice with words like “superfood,” “athletic” and “power.” Some market tea products as a means to detox — cleanse a person’s system, or to lose weight.

  • Are You Experiencing Dizziness? It Could Be Your Ear

    Every day we use our ears to hear, but these complex organs also help us maintain our balance. Deep within the inner ear is the vestibular system, which promotes our ability to stand steadily, stabilize eye position during head movement and move gracefully.

  • Are You Dizzy? It Could Be Your Ear

    Every day we use our ears to hear, but these complex organs also are integral to our sense of balance. Deep within the inner ear is the vestibular system, which helps us do things like stand, move gracefully and keep our eyes stable while nodding our heads.

  • How To Eat Fewer Highly Processed Foods (and Why You Should)

     

  • Eating for Two: Separating Myths from Facts on What to Eat While Pregnant

    During pregnancy, eating a healthy diet is essential. Not only does it provide fuel for you, the expectant mom, but it also provides the necessary nutrition your baby needs to grow and develop. But sometimes it’s hard to separate the myths of eating while pregnant from the facts. Do you need to eat meat for a healthy diet? Should you avoid fish and seafood because of mercury? Since you’re eating for two, should you really double the calories you take in?