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Get Help With Your Fast Paced Lifestyle

June 8, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Get Help With Your Fast Paced Lifestyle
Courtesy CNO’S MEALS TO GO, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
The fast paced lifestyle most of us live offers more activities packed into one day than we can ever accomplish. Maintaining a well balanced healthy diet is a challenge many of us can’t seem to master. We go grocery shopping for fresh ingredients, then pick up an off the shelf precooked meal for the night or stop by a fast food restaurant on the way home because we don’t have either the time or energy to prepare a meal from scratch. […]

Ron's Carrus Story – Carrus Specialty Hospital

June 8, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Ron’s Carrus Story
Chapter One
Courtesy Carrus Specialty Hospital, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
For Ron Vardeman, a popular Sherman realtor, critical illnesses happened to other people. And then, he was hospitalized. He is grateful that he stabilized sufficiently to be moved to an extraordinary specialty hospital for further treatment. His physician chose Carrus Specialty Hospital, which also includes Carrus Rehabilitation Hospital. […]

CLASS Act

June 8, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

CLASS Act
By Rokeya Sultana, Collin LIVING WELL Magazine
The recent federal health care reform legislation includes a little noticed provision that creates a voluntary national insurance program for long-term care known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program (CLASS), or CLASS Act. According to the Kaiser Foundation, it is the “sleeper” in health reform. […]

Nutrition: Calories, Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates (Part I)

June 7, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Nutrition: Calories, Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates

By Ladislav P. Novak, Ph.D.
Courtesy John Eagle Honda, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine

All efforts to achieve weight loss, stronger muscles, establish good health habits, etc., would decline slowly year by year if you didn’t put a determined break on your appetite simultaneously. […]

Why Consider A Retirement Living Community?

June 7, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Why Consider A Retirement Living Community?
By Joseph L. Roche, The Tradition, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine
The retirement years bring a lot of opportunity – and also many decisions about how to spend time, where to live, and how to make the most of these important years.
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Dentures: The End of Dental Problems or Just the Beginning

June 6, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Dentures: The End of Dental Problems or Just the Beginning?
By John Shoemaker, DDS, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
Having practiced over 30 years, I have seen a tremendous variety of dental problems, from the simple to the complex. With new technology and patient education, some dental problems have been reduced and yet other problems have increased. And yet, the fundamental problem we all face regardless of age, dental history, genetics, gender, etc., remains: How do I make my teeth last a lifetime? […]

Honoring our Past by Preparing for the Future

June 6, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Honoring our Past by Preparing for the Future
By Katrina McPherson, BS, LNHA, Good Samaritan-Denton Village, Denton LIVING WELL Magazine
Good Samaritan Society (GSS) began in a six-room rented house in rural North Dakota in 1922 and is now the nation’s largest not-for-profit provider of senior care and services, serving 27,000 people in over 240 locations. […]

The Benefits of Robotic Gynecological Surgery

June 5, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Robotic Gynecological Surgery
By Antonio Asis, MD, FACOG, Denton LIVING WELL Magazine

The advanced technology of robotic surgery has resulted in vast improvements in gynecological procedures to treat uterine fibroids, endometriosis and other gynecologic conditions that can cause painful, heavy menstrual flow and infertility. This minimally invasive surgery offers many benefits. […]

Spring Cleaning for Your Body

June 5, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Spring Cleaning for Your Body

By Dr. Michelle Robin, Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

Ah, spring! Everything around us is fresh, releasing the old and bringing forth the new. As the days get longer, brighter, and warmer, we open the windows, and do a thorough cleaning and decluttering of the house and the yard. Spring is a great time to refresh the body as well. The best way to do this is to detox. […]

Be Kind to your Kidneys

June 4, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off

Be Kind to your Kidneys Courtesy MercyCare Community Physicians, Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine Chronic kidney disease (CKD), the permanent loss of some kidney function, currently affects an estimated 26 million people in the U.S., […]