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  • Pop Quiz! Do You Know the Roles Vitamins, Minerals Play in Good Nutrition?

    Pop Quiz! Do You Know the Roles Vitamins, Minerals Play in Good Nutrition?

    Did you know that micronutrient deficiencies affect billions of people worldwide? Micronutrients, also called vitamins and minerals, are an important part of adequate nutrition. There are six essential micronutrients, and they are essential for healthy development, disease prevention, and overall well-being, and they must be gained through diet or by taking vitamins. Take our quiz…

  • Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

    Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

    Health-Conscious Bakery Delivers Low-Carb, Sugar-Free, and Gluten-Free Treats  by  MARY TOOTHMAN You’ve got to love the name of this little bakery: the No Guilt Baking Company. Owned and operated by Darla and Andrew Markley, the bake shop evolved through the Catapult Lakeland initiative. Three small businesses operate under the umbrella name/theme of “Counter Culture.”   …

  • Full Range of Care

    Full Range of Care

    Bond Clinic’s Diabetes Clinic Goes Beyond Treatment to Education by TERESA SCHIFFER According to the CDC, the incidence of new diabetes cases is going down — except among young people. The incidence of new cases among individuals under age 20 is actually going up. Data analyzed through 2018 shows that just over 10 percent of…

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  • Publisher’s Note: Great results we’d like to share

    Publisher’s Note: Great results we’d like to share

    I’d like to take a few moments to share results from an Online Reader Survey, which was conducted by Verified Audit Circulation about Central Florida Health News magazine.  The 18-question reader survey was designed to gather information from our Central Florida Health News readership about your demographics, lifestyle, education, reading habits, and consumer preferences.  Respondents…

  • Healthy Cook: The truth about ‘negative calorie’ foods

    Healthy Cook: The truth about ‘negative calorie’ foods

    Some things just sound too good to be true. You lose more calories eating a food than the food has in it. That’s called “negative calories” and it sounds like digestive snake oil to me. It would be died-and-gone-to-heaven for dieters. But there is a modicum of truth in it. Some cold foods that are…

  • Ask a Nurse: Popping pain pills?

    Ask a Nurse: Popping pain pills?

    Americans make up ~4.6 percent of the world’s population, yet have been consuming 80 percent of the global opioid supply and 99 percent of the global hydrocodone supply1! According to the CDC in 2008, 14,800 died of an opioid overdose… more than heroin and cocaine COMBINED2. Opioids like morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone, oxymorphone, and fentanyl…

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