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Thyroid gland serves as the body's thermostat
Editor's note: January is Thyroid Awareness Month. Here's a primer on how this gland functions in the body - and what happens when things go wrong. The thyroid gland serves as the "thermostat," or energy regulator, of our body. Shaped like a small shield,...
Healthy recipes for New Year's good luck
Black-eyed peas, long associated with good luck, are a staple on New Year's Day menus. And the greens that often go with are thought to represent paper currency. These recipes, provided by Fort Walton Beach Medical Center nutritional therapy manager...
Therapists offer advice on making resolutions stick
Making and keeping New Year resolutions are two different things. To help people keep their resolu-tions, licensed mental health counselors Valerie Peterson and Suzette DeJarnette offer this advice. DN: Why do people make New Year resolutions? DeJarnette:...
Touch your nose, touch your toes
This month's trainer workout is all about flexibility -bending, stretching, twisting and molding the body into a position of good alignment from top to toe. Anyone who has spent much time with a baby has seen flexibility at its finest. Those chubby legs...
Flexibility Workout
The following flexibility exercises are recommended by Naomi Brown, founder of the "Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis," held every December in Fort Walton Beach. For these exercises to work, "compliance is essential and effective," Brown says. "In my classes,...
Local psychotherapist discusses holiday blues
With the holidays approaching, local psychotherapist Joe Skelly shares his thoughts on the holiday blues. DN: What are the holiday blues?SKELLY: I think what you've got to do is distinguish between the holiday blues and depression. Depression is a longstanding...
Considering Gardasil
Dr. Doug Rigby, a pediatrician at White-Wilson Medical Center, fields the same anxious questions from his patients' parents every time a new vaccine is introduced: Is it safe, is it tested, are there risks, should I wait? Most of the time, they're talking...
Work out at work?
The 540 people who work at NEW Customer Services Cos. Inc. in Crestview are encouraged to stand up and walk around a little - even roll their shoulders and stretch their necks - while they're talking on the phone. Because talking on the phone is what...
Give the gift of health this year
Whether you love doing Christmas shopping or you hate it, there's one gift you can give this holiday season that simply can't fail. The gift of health. Maybe that could take the form of a stress-reducing massage. Maybe it could be a calorie-burning...
Balance your workout (with VIDEO)
Dance instructor Mary Rodgers says that balance practice is important as people age because "it repairs damaged pathways between the brain and the muscles, strengthens weakened stabilizing muscles and teaches the body new strategies for keeping itself...
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