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  • Pop Quiz: Physical Activity Recommendations for a Healthy Heart

    Pop Quiz: Physical Activity Recommendations for a Healthy Heart

    By Erika Aldrich Heart health is on a lot of people’s minds during the beginning of the year, but it should be a major focus year-round as heart disease is this nation’s leading killer of both men and women. Heart disease accounts for nearly one in four deaths in this county. Although many cases of…

  • Local Mother Achieves Degree Despite Health Challenges

    Local Mother Achieves Degree Despite Health Challenges

    by TERESA SCHIFFER Britainny Palmer may look like an ordinary mother, but she struggles with health issues that few have. Despite the obstacles created by her own body, she has managed to attain a bachelor’s degree in supervision and management recently from Polk State College. It wasn’t an easy task, but with perseverance and a…

  • Tom Grothouse Working Passionately to Educate, Prevent Pediatric Drownings

    Tom Grothouse Working Passionately to Educate, Prevent Pediatric Drownings

    by Mary Toothman Tom Grothouse worked in the fields of education and airlines much of his life, but his most recent years have been spent teaching children life-saving skills that prevent drowning. He seems to have found his niche. The Winter Haven resident is passionate about being an Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) instructor. With its…

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  • Delicious food and the diabetic’s diet

    Delicious food and the diabetic’s diet

    It’s in the Bag Diabetes is a group of diseases characterized by high glucose levels caused by insufficient production of insulin. That’s a fairly simple definition for a disease that is not simple to treat. In general, and that’s all we can deal with in a short article, a balanced diet is a good starting…

  • Body, Mind & Spirit: Giving thanks by giving back

    Body, Mind & Spirit: Giving thanks by giving back

    What it Means to be a Foster Family Foster parents provide a safe, nurturing home for children to heal. While there are currently about 150 licensed foster homes in Circuit 10, which covers Polk, Highlands, and Hardee Counties, more are needed. According to Teri Saunders, CEO of Heartland for Children here in Polk County, “That…

  • Editor’s Dose: More than just comfort food

    Editor’s Dose: More than just comfort food

      Reading this article on food “made with love” for the sick really brought back some memories. As a young teenager, my mother had to undergo open heart surgery twice within four years. She has a blood disorder that causes her body to produce too many of the clot-forming platelets. Adding to that complications of…

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