Tag Archives: Health

Nutrition feeds the body, mind and soul

  By Doreen Boudreau, Director of Marketing Buena Vida Estates As people age, nutrition and socialization rank right up there with exercise [...]

The Memory Game

The occasional “senior moments” of forgetting the name of a place or acquaintance, misplacing your wallet/watch, and missing an appointment now and [...]

An Ancient Approach to Fitness

For the last 30 years or so, I have been told over and over again how to take care of myself. Eat [...]

Diminishing Dry Eyes

Dr. Aggarwal of the Eye Clinic & Laser Institute discusses chronic dry eye syndrome and its treatments How would you know if [...]

Developing a Preventative Care Program

Mike Peterson of Suntree Pharmacy expresses the importance of screenings and certain medicines to assist in disease prevention and control “Many of [...]

Prevention & Detection of Common Chronic Conditions

Physicians at Wuesthoff Health System shed light on treatments for four troublesome diseases When it comes to your health, an ounce of [...]

Revolutionary Robotic Surgeries

Dr. Drexel Dobson of Wuesthoff Health System pioneers complex general and colorectal surgical procedures with the da Vinci® surgical system   In [...]

Reducing Re-Hospitilzations

As a long-term acute-care hospital, Kindred Hospital Melbourne has the time to provide the level care needed to reduce each patient’s chances [...]

Fitness & Nutrition: The Gatekeepers to Healthy Living

Professionals at Health First Pro-Health & Fitness Centers weigh in on the keys to disease prevention From warding of diseases, to strengthening [...]

Food for Thought:

Keeping a Healthy Lifestyle in Focus during the Holidays So how do you manage your healthy lifestyle while still celebrating? It is [...]

Skin Filler 101

In An Industry Plump with Choices, Basic Knowledge Aids in Smooth Selection Process By Anita Saluja, MD The skin aesthetics and anti-aging [...]

Healthy Eating

As I have pointed out before, healthy eating is much less daunting if you approach it with the perspective that you aren’t [...]

Running 101

With the Space Coast Marathon and Half-Marathon on the horizon, a post about long-distance running seemed appropriate.  I am by no means [...]

Skin Checks, Body Peels, and Fat Reduction, Oh My!

  Making your annual skin check appointment with your dermatologist is not necessarily on the top of most of our lists. However, [...]

Eat to Live: What Not to Do

 In 1987, my family was planning a move from upstate New York to Tennessee.  As I was not even 3 yet, I [...]

Fitness During the Holidays

Halloween Parties.  Thanksgiving Dinners.  Christmas Gatherings.  New Year’s Eve Bashes.  What do they all have in common?  FOOD.  And not usually of [...]

Put On Your Pink Bra

Put on Your Pink Bra and Join the Fight Against Breast Cancer Breast cancer statistics in Florida are staggering.  More than 15,500 [...]

Breast Cancer Survivor: Virginia Hatcher

Virginia Hatcher, 35 “Someone sent me a quote when I was diagnosed that I have carried with me every day since then.  [...]

Healing & Hope

Millions of women are surviving breast cancer today thanks to early detection, advances in treatment and increased awareness. To celebrate survivors and [...]

In Sickness and In Health

  When Theresa Williams was diagnosed with breast cancer the week of her 50th birthday, husband Mike’s initial reaction was anger. “Of [...]