News For, By and About People
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
For the second consecutive year, seniors won’t get a Social Security cost-of-living raise in 2011. Although the news comes as no surprise, many seniors are angry. But is their anger justified?
By Lilian Presti, NaturallySavvy.com
By Eric Heiden M.D.
By Mark Miller
Danica Teresa Harris, 7 1/2 months old, enjoying a Honey Crisp Apple at The Country Mill in Potterville, MI. Her mother, Dalia Luera-Harris, said it was her first apple and she loved it! Courtesy photo
By Joanne Capano, Naturally Savvy
Science continues to unveil the health benefits of following a whole foods diet that includes more fruits and vegetables. Indeed, it seems as if we’re always reading or hearing about a new study that links the reduction of certain health risks, such as heart disease and cancer, to the nutrient compounds found in fruit and vegetables.
By Eric Heiden M.D.
Tribune Media Services
Jen had been obese, had gastric bypass surgery and lost 80 pounds. She was walking five or six times a week — about 25 miles — and had started doing marathons. Then she started lifting weights twice a week to add some resistance training to her routine to help reduce her abdominal fat and her risk for heart disease. Suddenly, she started gaining weight. Jen got stressed and stopped lifting weights. When she came in for her next checkup, exercise performance physician Max Testa, M.D., asked her, “Why did you stop lifting weights?”
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
Are you a senior enraged about health care reform? If so, allow me to interrupt the ranting for a moment to alert you that, um, your check may be in the mail.
One of the new-and largely ignored-improvements in the health care reform law that benefits seniors is the closing of the notorious “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plans. But the changes will occur over a period of years, and there’s been some confusion over the first step-a $250 rebate that is being sent out to most people who fall into the hole this year.
