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This weekend I witnessed how one person’s seemingly small and unusual gesture made a significant impact in another person’s life without them even knowing each other.  Let me explain! Have you ever seen a movie that completely surprised you?  Not as in some creepy thing [...]

When I was growing up, we had some land and my brother and I would regularly be out building forts, bridges and riding the horses.  This came with ticks and chiggers.  No big deal right? Unfortunately, now getting a tick can be very problematic not [...]

I was watching the Hunger Games movies these last several weeks and one of the lines President Snow said really stuck out.  He was discussing the ways to keep the districts in line and someone had suggested increasing the fear.  While fear is important in [...]

I am seeing more and more people who have been told they have a fatty liver.  While alcoholism, excessive acetaminophen use and some genetic conditions are all underlying causes these only account for a small portion of fatty liver disease.  The real culprit is metabolic [...]

B5, O72…..Have you ever played BINGO?  I’m sure you have like I had.  You had a card and someone was clearly calling out the initial and number and yelling BINGO when you achieved whatever pattern they were asking for.  Ho, hum.  This is NOT the [...]

We have all been there.  Losing weight and then suddenly it stops.  Turns out the strategies you have been using to lose the weight over a prolonged period of time can back fire.  In addition, some people are just programed with a slower metabolism in [...]

Do you ever feel like your head is caught in a storm, with lightning bolts of pain flashing behind your eyes and thunderous throbs resonating through your skull? If so, you may be familiar with the often-debilitating condition known as migraine headaches. Migraines are not [...]

Mood issues like depression lumps everyone together in one category.  However, there are many different kinds of depression that you may have never heard of and you will be surprised that while low mood is the common thread there are so many more symptoms involved [...]

Medications are necessary and important for managing issues like blood pressure, mental health, cancer, etc.  However, they can come with a cost robbing us of certain key nutrients.  When I hear of studies that indicate long term use of a medication creates issues like dementia, [...]