Editor’s Note: Recipes are at the end of this column. By Lori Dodds, BS, RDN, LD Festive gatherings and holiday preparations often involve a bounty of tasty treats and cut into time usually spent on exercise, sleep and general relaxation. If you’d like to make this year different, and celebrate the New Year without weight […]
Alzheimer’s: What is it and how can we help prevent it?
Editor’s Note: November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Caregivers Month. Along with performing clinical trials to develop treatment that might help slow Alzheimer’s progression, experts also advocate a healthy lifestyle to possibly prevent the terrible disease from even occurring. In the column below, Dr. Alex Wang (pronounced Wong), a neurologist at The Corvallis […]
Want to to keep your weight in check during the holidays? Just don’t skimp on those long winter’s naps
With all the to-do lists and festivities facing us during the holiday season, it can be difficult getting enough sleep. And not only can being sleep deprived make us crankier and less focused, it could also cause us to gain weight during a time of so many gustatory temptations. Significant scientific evidence shows that a […]
Think before you eschew your diabetes medication
By Julie Carrico, MBA, CCRC It’s not uncommon for folks who have been recently – or in some cases not so recently – diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes to decline medication as an intervention and state their intention to “control” diabetes via diet and exercise. They leave the doctor’s office vowing “this time I’m really […]
In breast-cancer battle, schoolteacher shows it’s all in the right attitude
By Keith Bowers For the Corvallis Clinic Judging by Sandy Baumgartner’s appearance and vitality, one would never suspect that she recently completed a breast-cancer treatment regimen that lasted more than eight months. Her athletic build, bright eyes, and stylish clothes and haircut suggest the opposite – that cancer has never touched her. Talk to Sandy […]
