Emerging health news to keep an eye on.
The year my mother fell and broke her hip, I put on 15 pounds. It was a stressful year for both of us, as well as for our extended family. And it was to be my mother’s last year. I made six emergency, cross-country trips to help my mother settle …
When I was told I had “leaky gut” several years ago, I was aghast. It was the first time I had heard that term and it made me feel so damaged. I pictured my intestinal tract as a corroded old pipe, leaking foul-smelling, dirty liquid. Eeew! But my doctor was …
Sugar and chocolate and carbs, oh my! So we’re approaching 60 days into this new world of the coronavirus and social distancing. When I sat down to write, all sorts of unsettling images – images that weren’t in my mind a month ago – flooded my brain. At first I …