It’s easy to turn to comfort food to help cope with the pandemic or the long, dark winter days. If your nutrition has suffered and your wardrobe consists of stretchy pants, maybe it’s time to look at your eating habits.
Category: Healthy Living
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45 or older? Embrace the colonoscopy that may save your life.
Colon cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer in the U.S. but can be successfully treated if found early with a colonoscopy. Please don't skip your due date.
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The Wrist: Few Bones—Huge Impact
Such a small area of the body can make a large impact on wrist or hand fractures, injuries from falls, or a condition such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Learn more - prevention and treatment.
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3 Helpful Tools to Regain Your Mental Health Balance
You have a lot to juggle—your job, kids if you have them, helping your parents and elderly family members—not to mention navigating daily life. It can be a lot!
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Side Effects are Normal and Healthy After COVID-19 Vaccination
by Thomas Haus, M.D., Family Medicine When you realize you don’t feel well after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, tell yourself, “This is a good and healthy response!” Changing your mindset may help get you through a few days of pain and discomfort. Vaccines, including the vaccine created to protect against COVID-19, work by making the...
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7 Steps to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Breathing is essential for life, and healthy lungs help keep us healthier overall. When lungs aren't healthy, it negatively impacts the rest of your body in many areas. Improving the quality of your indoor air is within your control.
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Sleep Apnea: Its Risks Go Beyond Just Snoring
Without enough hours of uninterrupted sleep, you may experience daytime tiredness, weight gain, brain fog, or other sleep-related symptoms. For many common sleep disorders, treatment is available.
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Bladder Health: Go with the flow—or not!
Bladder issues affect one in three adults. It isn’t something people like to talk about in public however, it’s a common medical condition that takes its toll on us emotionally, physically, and socially. There are several conditions that affect the bladder—and help is available for them.
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Lungs: When Breathing Easy—Isn’t
From chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to lung cancer, pneumonia, and other concerns, when our airways are impacted, each good breath becomes a gift. Learn more about these lung conditions.
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Radon at Home: Test, fix, save a life.
Commonly found across Minnesota, the average radon level in our homes is more than 3xs higher than the rest of the U.S. Why is it dangerous? Is it in your home? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls it a health hazard with a simple solution.
