Smoking and Diabetes

What’s the Connection? Diabetes is a group of diseases in which glucose levels are higher than normal.  The pancreas makes a hormone called insulin that helps glucose enter the body’s cells.  When you have diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough...

Before You Try a Laxative

Lifestyle Changes Can Help How often you have a bowel movement varies, but people normally have as many as three bowel movements a day to as few as three a week.  You may be constipated if you have fewer bowel movements than are normal for you.  In addition,...

Have an Active Lifestyle?

Eat Right for More Energy If you engage in physical activity and sports, healthy eating is essential for optimizing performance.  Combining good nutrition with physical activity can lead to an overall healthier lifestyle, too.  Here’s how. Choose...

Choosing an Antacid?

Talk with Your Pharmacist The next time you reach for an over-the-counter product to treat your upset stomach or heartburn, consider whether you should choose one of the many antacids that don’t contain aspirin.  Aspirin-containing medicines that treat heartburn,...

Rx Gourmet

Heart Healthy, Diabetes Friendly – and Delicious! Green Beans with Mushrooms and Shallots Serves 6 Dressing down some of our holiday favorites can not only be healthier but actually can awaken our taste buds.  Without all the mushroom soup and canned fried...

Your Healthy Hair and Skin

Here’s Help for Dandruff Dandruff is the excess shedding of the top layer of the skin on the scalp.  It is normal for these cells to be shed.  However, with dandruff, larger “scales” are shed at an increased rate.  There is nothing medically serious...