Central Florida Health and Wellness Magazine Health and Wellness Articles of the Villages
We all know how to drink wine, but do you know how to truly enjoy the taste of the exquisite drink? Are you one of many who enjoy drinking wine but would like to know more about how to actually taste and appreciate the wine? If you can taste food …
Read More »Ginny Gave Out, but She Never Gave Up
By Alex Anderson, Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church While I sat with the family in the surgical waiting area, I saw the elevator doors open. It was the surgeon. As he walked the twenty-five feet or so from the elevator to the waiting room, he was looking at …
Read More »ARE YOU A DISTRACTED DRIVER?
April is known as National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Everyone loves the freedom of getting behind the wheel of their car and just go, but are you easily distracted behind the wheel? Over 3,328 people nationwide were killed and over 421,000 were injured in motor vehicles accidents by distracted drivers. …
Read More »INTERCOMMUNITY CANCER CENTERS AND INSTITUTE SPOTLIGHTS ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
With so much news surrounding the prevention, detection and treatment of breast, prostate, colon and skin cancer, it can be easy to forget that other deadly forms of cancer do exist. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), there will be approximately 17,990 newly diagnosed esophageal cancer cases in 2013. …
Read More »The Right Food May be Wrong For You
By Compton Chiropractic Care – You’ve seen your doctor, but nothing seems to explain the cause of these symptoms. Well get ready to change everything you ever thought you knew about your diet, nutrition and how to be healthy! Compton Chiropractic is now offering a new test that pinpoints exactly …
Read More »INTERCOMMUNITY CANCER CENTERS AND INSTITUTE USE INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY TO SPARE HEALTHY TISSUE IN COLON CANCER PATIENTS IMRT Uses Thousands of Tiny Beams to Increase Radiation Accuracy
In celebrating National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month this March, InterCommunity Cancer Centers (ICCC) and Institute (ICCI) of Leesburg and Lady Lake are educating its served communities about the importance of early detection and advanced treatments that are helping to save countless lives. Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third …
Read More »ANGINA CHEST PAIN MY ACHING HEART!
It is all about supply and demand. The heart needs a plentiful supply of oxygen and nutrients to effectively nourish the body. When the body’s body’s demand exceeds the heart’s supply, complications arise. This imbalance between demand and supply results from high blood pressure and vessel narrowing leading to lack …
Read More »Hearing Loss: Prevention Through Nutrition
There are many ways to support and maintain healthy hearing–protecting ears from noise pollution, turning down the music, and getting a regular checkup from an audiologist, but nutrition also plays a key part in hearing preservation. Studies confirm that hearing loss and poor nutrition go hand and hand. An Australian …
Read More »Stem Cells Take Center Stage
By David Ebner, Staff Writer Stem CellsThe world will never forget the fate-filled day when four young men from Liverpool, England walked onto the stage of The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. The bright stage lights and the squeals from the crowd rained down on the smiling group, and that …
Read More »Florida Fresh Blueberry Wines Locally Grown and Blended
Central Florida’s blueberries are quickly becoming Florida’s version of Napa valley, and for good reason. Conveniently located, Whispering Oaks Winery is a short 8-10 minute drive from The Villages and a 20-25 mile drive from Ocala. Make the trip to the winery and you will find yourself surrounded by fields …
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