How much more is there to say about salt? A month ago, I wrote here about the ways our bodies process salt, a compound that contains sodium and chloride. And in the article that followed, I told you about the proven benefits of the DASH diet (DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop ...
The Western diet is a joke, but the joke is on us. The foods promoted on the billboards and tv commercials are making us sick, if only because you’re being deprived of nutrients. And we all know the kind of foods we are talking about. The pop tarts and tv dinners, microwaved pizzas and soda ...
MARQUETTE — We seem to live in a unique moment in time, a time where the vast majority of people think about their health constantly. With the pandemic still dominating the discourse of social media and the nightly news, it’s a topic you can’t really get away from. It feels as though ...
MARQUETTE — “How do I give myself the best chance of staying healthy?” Since the rise of COVID-19 two years ago, everybody has had a renewed focus on the topic of health. It’s a daily discussion in the media, in the chambers of Congress and in doctor’s offices around the world. ...
A famous television program from long ago portrayed a military man, repaired with all manner of artificial body parts after being badly injured in the line of duty. These high-tech replacement parts allowed him to perform extraordinary feats. The hardware implanted into his body apparently ...
As we are now well into our Upper Peninsula winter weather, I would like to again review the facts about frostbite that we all need to know, and to take appropriate measures to prevent frostbite. It is very important to minimize skin exposure when we are out in very cold winter weather, to ...
