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Get Help With Your Fast Paced Lifestyle

June 8, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Get Help With Your Fast Paced Lifestyle

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. […]

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Ron's Carrus Story – Carrus Specialty Hospital

June 8, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Ron's Carrus Story – Carrus Specialty Hospital

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. […]

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CLASS Act

June 8, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on CLASS Act

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. […]

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

June 7, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Nutrition: Calories, Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates (Part I)

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. […]

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5 Ways to Get More Customers for Your Small Business

June 7, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on 5 Ways to Get More Customers for Your Small Business

5 Ways to Get More Customers for Your Small Business

By Anne Cull, ThinkViral, Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

1) Make it Publicly Known That You Take Care of Your Customers

Almost all of our customers come from existing customers. When you take care of your customers, they become your “free” salespeople. Praise them online, post their successes, offer to showcase their testimonials in your email newsletters, etc. There are so many ways to showcase your customers and the more you do it, the more they will refer you and share you with their networks. […]

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Why Consider A Retirement Living Community?

June 7, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Why Consider A Retirement Living Community?

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 on Dentures: The End of Dental Problems or Just the Beginning

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? […]

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Honoring our Past by Preparing for the Future

June 6, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Honoring our Past by Preparing for the Future

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. […]

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The Benefits of Robotic Gynecological Surgery

June 5, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on The Benefits of Robotic Gynecological Surgery

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. […]

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Real estate, a window of opportunity

June 5, 2012 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Real estate, a window of opportunity

A window of opportunity
By Diane LaPlace, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
The economy is slowly but surely improving, jobless claims are dropping; there is hope in the air. As a potential homeowner, there is a window of opportunity open to you. An opportunity to take advantage of the lowest fixed rate mortgage in over 30 years. […]