Bluffton's Bingo night coming
Time for Bingo. The Village Cut N Curl Relay for Life team plans a Bingo night in Bluffton in early March. Click here for details.
Researchers in Ann Arbor, Michigan have determined that one out of seven sets of parents is following a vaccine schedule that is contrary to the standard procedure. Half of these are refusing some vaccines and another half are getting the vaccines when the child is older. DPT and polio vaccines are least likely to be skipped and flu vaccines most likely. Doctors need to be flexible when arranging for vaccines with parents. The latter’s concerns are real. The risk to your child is a different issue than the overall benefit to society.See Pediatrics 2011-0400)
A few years ago, I decided to run a mini-marathon near Cincinnati — 10 miles on a “flat, fast course.” That phrase alone should have made me skeptical, but silly me….a pure-bred Northwest Ohio runner defines flat as in pancake. No hills.
About halfway through the third...
15% of the 600,000 knee replacements each year suffer severe pain after the operation. The pain usually starts soon after the surgery and can last indefinitely. My experience is that it can usually be treated pretty well with a healing laser. However, the best approach might be to try prolotherapy injections prior to the surgery, and you might be able to avoid the need for surgery completely.See getprolo.com (click here) and healthcelebration.com (click here)
Ohio is experiencing yet another random January. Snow one day, rain the next; 10 degrees one day, 50 the next. And so it goes. Typical Ohio weather.
Every year, people comment on how strange this winter is and the usual contention is that it is all the result of global warming — which is no doubt true. Those of us who are at least 40 years old will swear that we had...
On the surface, cameras and sewing machines don’t have much in common but in our house, both are important tools. Once in awhile, though, the two are essential to each other.
I know very little about my husband’s cameras — especially the newest digital — and he knows even less about my sewing machines — one digital, the other built before the era of digital. But having lived with me for 32 years, he recognizes my need for a sewing challenge.
So…he recently asked if I could create some...
The US Preventive Services Task Force says no, not as a screening test. The majority of the scientific evidence shows that screening with a PSA identifies additional cancers but does not result in improvements in prostate-specific mortality. Such screening does result in additional surgeries, some of which are unnecessary and cause complications.See the US Preventive Services Task Force draft guidelines in PSA screening (click here). If you want further guidance, contact us at healthcelebration.com.
WebMD.com reports on a study centered at University of Pittsburgh of 70 year olds that consumed at least one serving of fish a week for 10 years. Their brains were larger and the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease was one-fifth of control patients. The effect was nullified if the fish was fried. Eat your fish baked or broiled!See WebMD.com(click here) or come our web site at healthcelebration.com for more info. (click here)
Somewhere in our attic is a dark green Girl Scout sash, but since it belongs to daughter number 1, it’s been packed away carefully in her recently reorganized “corner” and I’ve been ordered NOT to mess it up.
But a quick search through my husband’s box of family “heirlooms”, I located an old green Girl Scout dress that belonged either to his sister or mom. The label reads “Girl Scouts Trademark Official Uniform”.
Last night I mentioned to my husband that no Girl Scout had been by to take my annual cookie...
My Great Aunt Jeanie Yates was “deaf” since birth. Growing up in a time where deafness was considered a sign of deficiency, my late Grandmother (her sister) recalls sending Jeanie to a “special school” in Columbus, Ohio for weeks at a time. The tragedy of being “deaf” (as it was called then, now we say [...]
Last night Mother Nature dropped 5 inches on snow on us, so this morning we woke to the sounds of snowplows making their way around the neighborhood. Fighting off the urge to hibernate, I got up to face a snowy run.
Running in snow and chilly temps requires some adjustments in gear. Hats don’t always cover my ears so I wear a Brooks Nightlife fleece-lined earwarmer with a New Balance fleece-lined hat on top of it. It was below 20, so I added my 15-year-old Neofleece Extreme Masque — it covers the nose and mouth, but there are little holes that let you breathe.
Fleece-lined tights over capri length compression tights, Smartwool socks with baggies over my toes (this works!), and a 20-year-old Gore-Tex jacket. The coup...