7 Diet Tips To Help You Manage Diabetes
Submitted by Oak Street Health Diabetes management can be supported with a balanced diet of nutrient-rich foods. By incorporating these foods into your diet and avoiding those that will spike your levels, you can reduce the risk of complications caused by diabetes. To help support healthy blood glucose levels, consider the following food tips: 1. […]
Is It Neuropathy?
Submitted by One Degree Functional Health If you are one of the more than 20 million people in the United States who suffer with neuropathy, you are not alone and you know the devastation it can cause to your everyday life. The sad part is that many people either don’t know that they have neuropathy […]
A Journey of Hope
Presented by Lanna Scannell, CFRE, Director of Strategic Philanthropy, OSF HealthCare Foundation Violet Spengler was just 4 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer. Her mother, Mary, recalls she had no symptoms, other than a minor fever that went away but kept coming back. On her way out the door for an appointment one […]
Suffering With Neuropathy Pain Is a Choice
Submitted by One Degree Functional Health There are many things in life that we must live with but living with neuropathy pain is not one of them. Not anymore. Gone are the days of living on prescription pain medication or just learning to live with the pain. Today’s neuropathy treatments are the most advanced than […]
Turning Loss Into Luck
By Denny Mekus, Health Alliance March is a special month for me because of St. Patrick’s Day. A day burned into my memory like no other. My beautiful wife and I were married nearly 10 years, and we wanted nothing more than to become first-time parents. Our prayers were finally answered, and we were headed […]
Cardiac Thoracic & Endovascular Therapies, S.C. Saving Your Circulation
By Alexander Germanis Nothing living can sustain itself without some system in place to transport nutrients. A city cannot subsist without a distribution of food to every household. The farms growing that food cannot thrive without delivery systems for water and fertilizer. And the human body cannot utilize the nutrients from that food or the […]
Loneliness and Social Isolation—Tips for Staying Connected
Submitted by Villas of Holly Brook Everyone needs social connections to survive and thrive. But as people age, they often find themselves spending more time alone. Being alone may leave older adults more vulnerable to loneliness and social isolation, which can affect their health and well-being. Studies show that loneliness and social isolation are associated […]
One Degree Functional Health: Neuropathy Care Makes Good Sense
By Alexander Germanis We are connected to our world by far more than just the laws of physics. Our senses of sight, smell, hearing, and taste enable us to react and interact to so much of the world around us. Touch, however, is the sense we use not just to react and interact to the […]
Music to Pluck Your Heartstrings
By Alexander Germanis Going back thousands of years, the heart has been directly linked to emotion. Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and other philosophers believed our feelings indeed originated from that vital muscular organ. This was such a popular belief for such a long time the term “heartstring” was only first used in a non-anatomical sense in […]
The Health-Wealth Connection
By Krista McBeath, McBeath Financial Group It’s a vicious cycle: money is one of the greatest causes of stress, prolonged stress can lead to serious health issues, and health issues often result in yet more financial struggles. The clear connection between health and wealth is why it’s so important to develop and maintain lifelong plans […]
