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  • Helping make the healthier choice, the easier choice

    Helping make the healthier choice, the easier choice

    About the Building a Healthier Polk initiative Building a Healthier Polk is a group of community partners brought together by Polk Vision who are working towards the goal of reducing the obesity rate in Polk County.  Polk Vision is a broad, community-led partnership of organizations, businesses, government, and individuals. In 2012, Polk Vision’s Quality of…

  • The trouble with trigger finger

    The trouble with trigger finger

    Local surgeon develops alternate solution for a tricky procedure There’s no getting around this fact: you need your hands.  When one or more of your fingers or thumbs doesn’t function properly, it interferes with work and play.  Correcting a condition such as trigger finger once meant a trip to a hospital or surgery center for…

  • Healthy Cook: The disease-fighting properties of red foods

    Healthy Cook: The disease-fighting properties of red foods

    Roses are red Berries are blue Red foods tastes good And are heart-healthy, too. There are only a few days of the year when a writer can get that corny, and who am I to pass up the chance?  But it’s true.  Lots of red foods are good for the heart because of what they…

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