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Plant-Based Foods Lifestyle Gaining in Popularity
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Plant-Based Foods Lifestyle Gaining in Popularity

21 Jan 2020

The health benefits are winning the conversation. Think about it. Old eating habits are hard to break. For the better part of our lives we’ve eaten what our great-grandparents, grandparents and parents ate. Holidays and special occasions are always centered on food — healthy, or not. Times have changed and ... Read More »

Social Connections Mean More Than You May Know
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Social Connections Mean More Than You May Know

13 Jan 2020

Healthcare providers are adding another perspective to achieving better health outcomes. By Teresa Gerard, MBA CEO, Guardian Group, LLC Healthcare and community-based organizations (CBOs) are realizing they need to work together to address the whole person with patient-centered care and client-centered programs and services. A joint effort is emerging to ... Read More »

Injectable Weight-Loss Medication May be the Missing Piece
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Injectable Weight-Loss Medication May be the Missing Piece

13 Jan 2020

People struggling with chronic weight gain may want to explore this option. By Tenille L. Lawson, PharmD, BCPS If you struggle with obesity you’re not alone. Finding the right methods to manage your weight can be challenging. You have tried—harder than others realize—to improve your diet and physical activity, but ... Read More »

A Healthy YOU Throughout the Year
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A Healthy YOU Throughout the Year

05 Jan 2020

By LeAnn Kridelbaugh, MD, FAAP Chief Medical Officer, Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center Health awareness and disease prevention focuses on keeping people healthy. Healthcare providers are trained to be one of the first lines of defense against preventing chronic diseases, by supplying us with knowledge to help us understand how ... Read More »

The HEALTHIEST YOU in 2020
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The HEALTHIEST YOU in 2020

05 Jan 2020

Start Living Healthier and Happier According to HealthyPeople.gov, “clinical preventive services, such as routine disease screening and scheduled immunizations, are key to reducing death and disability and improving the Nation’s health.” In addition to basic screenings, your healthcare provider will also provide additional age appropriate and gender-based screenings. To help ... Read More »

Resilience: Deborah’s Hidden Strength
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Resilience: Deborah’s Hidden Strength

12 Nov 2019

By Father Justin Mathews Executive Director, Reconciliation Services “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.” – 2 Cor. 4:8-9 Deborah could have been crushed by the weight of trauma that she experienced at ... Read More »

Navigating Life with Diabetes? Here’s a Powerful Tip — Get to Know Your A1c
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Navigating Life with Diabetes? Here’s a Powerful Tip — Get to Know Your A1c

07 Nov 2019

By Tenille L. Lawson, PharmD, BCPS Let’s face it. Managing type 2 diabetes is like driving on a long-distance journey: you analyze the foods you eat, you work out until you sweat, you check your blood glucose (sugar)—but still you wonder, are you there yet? If you are one of ... Read More »

Protect Yourself and Loved Ones from the Flu
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Protect Yourself and Loved Ones from the Flu

07 Nov 2019

By Lisa Cox, Chief, Office of Public Information Missouri DHSS of Health and Senior Services Getting a flu shot is likely not on your radar right now. A California public health system has already reported a flu-associated death of a 4-year-old who had underlying health issues. While seasonal flu viruses ... Read More »

Johnny Waller: “Mr. Kindness!”
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Johnny Waller: “Mr. Kindness!”

07 Nov 2019

By Robert Lee Hill Community Consultant, Minister Emeritus Community Christian Church Johnny Waller is the kind of person you’d want to bring home to meet your family at holiday times, or for a birthday party, or just for dinner on a mundane midweek evening. He’s the sort of exemplary individual ... Read More »

Kindness Makes the World a Better Place
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Kindness Makes the World a Better Place

06 Nov 2019

Practicing kindness can change your life and others’. By Shantai McCray, MA, LPC Life’s Work Counseling and Consulting Think about what being kind looks like to you and simply pay it forward. It is in times like these that we are able to draw on strength we didn’t even know we had. ... Read More »

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