Central Florida Health and Wellness Magazine Health and Wellness Articles of the Villages
With a passion for on-going education, community service and creating a family culture, this industry leader and his team help retirees achieve “Your Life, Your Way.” In his first book, Not Your Parents’ Retirement: How Annuities and Life Insurance Can Help You Live Your Life Your Way, Greg Parady, CEO …
Read More »Spring Training for Your Hearing
Ahhh – spring. Who doesn’t love the sights, sounds and promise the season brings? And, if you’re an American baseball aficionado, you know that spring also heralds the beginning of spring training. What does baseball and spring training have to do with your hearing health? Ironically, many New Year’s exercise-related …
Read More »Do You Know “MELISA”: A diagnostic test for metal allergies
By Dr. Perry Ekstrand I have been approached lately by a few patients asking me about titanium allergies. For those of you who don’t know, titanium is used in implant treatment to restore missing teeth. In medicine it is used for hips, knees and shoulders among other things. In some …
Read More »The Basics of Wine Tasting
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 »Hydrotherapy Key Benefits
Hydrotherapy has been used for thousands of years to help people feel better. Putting together three of nature’s most powerful relieving agents: heat, water, and air, it invigorates and gently massages the body while easing away aches and pains. Three basic factors comprise hydrotherapy: Heat, Buoyancy, and Massage: . Heat …
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 »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 »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 …
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