DIY health: Grow, pick your own
Using slow food to your benefit, and finding it in your own backyard (sometimes literally).
Ways to eat slow and local and know what you are eating.
Nancy Rudner Lugo: Got turkey? Beer? Gout?
Holiday food may fuel gout
Great holiday food? Big toe hurting? It could be gout.
Nancy Rudner Lugo: The human instinct to help coordinated by technology
Using technology to connect
Bad things happen. Good people want to help.
Nancy Rudner Lugo: Tribute to real health heroes
The real health heroes
Day and night, quietly and without fanfare, a cast of hard-working and often unrecognized souls keeps our community thriving.
Nancy Rudner Lugo: 12-point guide to good health
Here is a straightforward, easy-to-follow 12-point guide to healthy living in Central Florida.
Guide to healthy living
Nurse Lugo: Clinical trials: hope or guinea pig?
A clinical trial may be just right for you. Or maybe not. The more you know, the better your decisions will be for you.
Who are they for? Criteria for each trial are different.
Nancy Rudner Lugo: Is gluten-free for you?
If your body cannot absorb gluten, your intestines become inflamed and damaged when you eat breads, pastas and most cereals.
How do you know if you are gluten-sensitive?
Pandora’s box of tests you don’t need
What if a screening test performed in a local parking lot “suggested” that perhaps something might be wrong.
Some screening tests make very good sense, can find problems early, and make a difference in your health.
Nancy Rudner Lugo: Your food, your baby
“You are what you eat,” a common refrain, also translates to “your baby is what you eat, too.”
Tips for a healthy baby
Spoonful of honey may help allergies
A teaspoon of local honey a day during pollen season is said to reduce your body’s reaction.
But just as Orange Blossom Trail does not always live up to the bucolic beauty the name suggests, orange blossom time may not be the best time of year for you either.
Nancy Rudner Lugo: Superwoman could be healthier
Women ages 45 to 64 have the lowest well-being of any age group or gender.
Women ages 45 to 64 have the lowest well-being of any age group or gender, and are worse off than women a generation ago.
How to compare health agencies
Thanks to the health care reform law, more quality measures and transparency will be available.
Health Action: How to lower high-blood pressure
More than 1 in 4 adults in Central Florida has hypertension.
Health Action: Ready to quit smoking?
Your guide to do it
Quitting smoking is not that simple. If quitting were, more smokers would have quit long ago.
Health Action: Make biking part of your life
Couple bike to work
Mandy and Steve Booker found biking to their Rollins College jobs from their Oviedo home every day doesn’t take much more time.
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