Wellness

By Kay Leaman, Health Architect It’s a love-hate relationship. We eat sweets to celebrate, comfort our souls and give sweets as gifts. Enjoying special moments is a good thing. But even if you’re an occasional sweet eater, you might be eating much more than you think. Sugar is more addictive...

By Michelle Ruschman Publisher’s Note: Our area is blessed with several military installations, serving thousands of military personnel and possessing a significant deployment commitment. Consequently, our family and friends in the military are continuously placed in harm’s way. Fortunately, we have Fisher House, which provides a home away from home...

By Greg Durette, Florida Health Connector The end is near! Not in the mortal sense, but rather, the end of the Open Enrollment Period for predominantly Medicare Advantage plan members in 2022. We will leave the mortality proclamation to the crazy guy wearing the sandwich board roaming various city streets...

By Kay Leaman, Health Architect When we think of ending cravings, we usually begin with telling ourselves, “I’m going to stop eating.” However, as most of us know, the willpower to eat it is many times stronger than our will power to not eat it. Let’s be real. As soon...

By Todd Craig, LCSW Sometimes we need a wake-up call, something to shake us from being lulled into the dull existence of an unintentionally lived life. Something that awakens us to snap out of the mindset that life is something that happens to us rather than a gift we get...

By Lisa Leath Turpin, Health & Fitness Coach/Consultant Consider these suggestions to get the best out of your workouts and keep you interested. Structure your workouts to fit your goals: A gymnast doesn’t train like a football player, and a tennis player doesn’t train like a basketball player. Why? Because in...

By Dr. Richard Chern, MD In this column, we’ve discussed the thyroid before. However, it’s such an important subject, because even mild thyroid dysfunction can cause weight gain over months and years. And this weight gain is nearly impossible to lose and keep off without getting the thyroid optimized. The thyroid...

Local Niceville nonprofit, Crisis Aid for Littles and Moms (CALM) Organization, Inc., is planning its 5th annual Spring Fundraiser, “Rise Up for Change,” on Saturday, April 9th from 5–8 p.m. at VenYou201 which will include both silent and live auctions. Highlights feature music by Ed Wrann and the John...

By Greg Durette, Florida Health Connector As many times as I have said the term “age-in” to folks when discussing Medicare, it has never failed to elicit a visceral response like, “What do you mean with this age-in thing?!” or “I don’t feel aged-in!.” The fact of the matter is, aging-in,...

By Dr. Richard Chern, MD There is a big difference between being healthy and not being sick. In the same way there is a big difference between what is normal and what is optimal. This is true in many aspects of our lives and it especially includes lab results from...