Health & Wellness

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Health & Wellness

Make Time for Better Health on Busy Days

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Editorial Team

(Family Features) Fitting in time to exercise and eat sensible meals can be impractical, if not impossible, when the demands ...

surgery options in Lake Oconee
Chronic Pain

How to Prepare for Surgery and Get Back on Your Feet

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Editorial Team

In the U.S., the number of surgical procedures is increasing, with more than 30 million performed annually according to a ...

Why Men Avoid the Doctor
Men's Health

Top 4 Reasons Men Don’t Go to the Doctor

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It’s no secret men avoid going to the doctor with a would-rather-scrub-the-toilet-than-schedule-an-appointment kind of hate. With Movember putting men’s health under ...

Women's Health

Holiday Menopause Survival Guide to Make Your “Peri” Merry!

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Editorial Team

Many women are stressed out, exhausted and bloated during the holidays, but for women over 40, these may be signs ...

Health & Wellness

4 Benefits of Laughing Your Way Through The New Year

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Editorial Team

Like clockwork, people are composing their lists of New Year’s resolutions, and at the same time they’re ending this year with some ...

Health & Wellness

How to Shift from Guilt to Gratitude Over the Holidays

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Editorial Team

By Evelyn Huynh Have you ever felt like you have a love/hate relationship with the last couple of months of ...

Cancer Care

Breaking Smoking’s Addiction: The Fincher Family’s Journey to Freedom

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On Nov. 21, tens of thousands of people across the country will join together to quit smoking for the Great ...

Men's Health

Guys, If You Think You have Low T, Please Try Something Simple First!

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Jonny Bowden

There’s a lot of buzz nowadays about low testosterone, now known colloquially as “low T.” Lots of guys assume they ...

Health & Wellness

Got the Flu? Help May Be Just a Call or Computer Click Away

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Editorial Team

Aaachoooo! If that sneeze is accompanied by a cough and fever, you may have the flu, but don’t go running ...

Health & Wellness

Use Mindfulness to Practice Year-Round Gratitude

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Editorial Team

For Thanksgiving this year, Julie Potiker, author of “Life Falls Apart, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying ...