Health
It's Time to be 50 and Fearless
If you’re over 50 and have been putting off your first colonoscopy, it’s time to face your fears. Of course you’re not comfortable with the thought of having a colonoscopy, but ask yourself this: Are you comfortable with the thought of succumbing to the nation’s second-leading cause of cancer death? Especially when that colonoscopy you didn’t have could have helped avoid it?
Banner MD Anderson Expanding for More Service and Treatment
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert has recently broken ground on an expansion of its outpatient cancer facility. This expansion will mean a new service offering and more equipment and treatment areas to better cater to the needs of the increasing number of patients.
Not-So-Clean Cleaning Products
The bad news: We live in a toxic world. There are all kinds of nasty foreign substances all around us, from heavy metals to plastics (otherwise known as phthalates) to pesticides, solvents, molds, and other fat- and water-soluble chemicals. It isn’t really possible to avoid toxins completely unless you want to pick up and move to some unindustrialized part of the world... and even then there’s no guarantees.
The Truth Behind Lifting Weights
Kevin Shepard, certified personal trainer and nutritionist at DC Ranch Village Health Club, on why women should make a resolution to lift weights in 2013.
A Lifelong Problem Gone in an Instant
"But immediately after the surgery, they got me up to walk, and I did it. It was like a lifelong problem was gone in an instant."
