When your get up and go has gotten up and left, consider your blood sugar. November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. An understanding of diabetes is the first step in combating chronic fatigue.
Within one week there are two food related commemorations occurring. One is an overindulgence of everything healthy and the other is quite the opposite. And the happy medium is somewhere in between.
While reading a recent nutrition research article I looked up and gazed at the calendar. It is two weeks before Halloween and I haven’t purchased my trick or treat candy yet. I usually buy it and then spend the next two weeks trying to not devour every single bit of it until the bewitching night.
Saturday morning I wandered around Orrville looking for garage sale finds. This small town was ripe with one man’s trash equals another man’s treasure.
Upon purchasing a new car I realized that the computer that controlled the radio, the temperature settings and the hands-free phone is very complicated. I wondered how the car manufacturers could get away with installing such a distracting feature within visual distance of the driver. Fiddling with all those new controls could cause an accident and someone could get seriously hurt.
A new study reveals that nearly 40 percent of rural adults in the U.S. are obese, whereas 33 percent of people living in a city are obese.
A new baby is in our family. A few weeks ago our middle son and wife welcomed little Ella. She was a healthy 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 19 inches long. We are so proud of all three of them.
September is National Food Safety Month. Schools are in full session. County fairs and fall festivals attract people from miles around. Organizations start up again with regular monthly meetings. To many people, this is the beginning of the year.