Article by Kimberly



With Mother's Day approaching, I am writing my story to all moms, but especially to those moms living with the day to day struggle of coping with a chronic illness.

The medical conditions that I have been diagnosed with are fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. I have been living with these for over three decades now. It began at age nineteen while I was in nursing school, has followed me through my career as a cardiac nurse (which is currently on hold), through a twenty-nine year marriage to a man that God has truly blessed me with, and ...the focus of what I am writing about... through being a mother to two wonderful sons who have seen me as a mom enjoying motherhood but at the same time dealing with the struggles of living with a chronic medical condition.

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Article by Alan Pollard



Exercise is important to everyone. No matter your age or gender, exercise is essential to a healthy body and mind. Since enjoying a long life span is ideal, you must focus on a healthy life style. Exercising, along with what we put into our bodies, is key to getting the most out of life. There are endless reasons why exercise benefits us.
Women who exercise reduce their risk of developing numerous diseases such as cardio vascular disease, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, and some forms of cancers, as well as expanding their life span. It has been documented that exercising regularly reduces premature death by 25%. Obesity is a major factor of heart disease. Exercising is key to a healthy heart. It reduces risk of heart attack by about 50%. Hot flashes are very common among women experiencing menopause. Women who exercise experience less hot flashes because of the body releasing endorphins that counteract hormonal imbalances that produce hormonal symptoms

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Article by Luke Curtis, M.D., C.I.H.



Candida is a common mold or fungus. It can exist either as a small single celled or yeast form or as a branched multi-celled form. The most common species of Candida is Candida albicans, but many other species of Candida are found in humans including C. tropicalis, C. glabrata, C. parapsilosis, C. krusei, C. guilliermondii, and C. lusitaniae.
When Candida or yeast is mentioned, most women tend to think of Candida causing unpleasant vaginal infections. While Candida often causes nasty vaginal infections, Candida can infect every part of the body except the teeth (C Kibbler M.D., Principles and Practice of Clinical Mycology, England 1996). The largest area of Candida colonization is usually the intestinal tract, although Candida frequently also infects the sexual and urinary organs (of both women and men), the mouth, and the skin. Candida infections sometimes create a whitish cottage-cheese like discharge in the mouth. Many women, and men, have heavy Candida overgrowth in their intestines without having any symptoms in their urinary or genital organs.

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Article by Dr. Lynn Jennings, M.D.


Dear Readers,

This year is really going by fast. Doug's office emailed me and mentioned that Mother's Day would be coming up in May. Since I am a mom, I thought this would be an appropriate time to present a case that illustrates how lucky we are to have mothers. With that said let's begin.

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Article by Kyle Drew



These days, it seems that nothing is taboo anymore. I'm conservative enough that this is usually worrisome to me. I say "usually" because I do think it's good that certain things are no longer written in stone. For example, the authority of a doctor's opinion is no longer regarded as infallible. We tend to take his/her opinion and shuffle it around with our own, and determine for ourselves which course of action we should take for our own health.

Another subject that is no longer taboo is that of depression. In years past, if you experienced depression, it was akin to a diagnosis of insanity. You didn't dare tell anyone about it, and if you were "found out," you'd just downplay it as a side effect of life circumstances.

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