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New
Sweet Springs Community Calendar on Our Website!
 New
on our website is the Sweet Springs
Community Calendar. We thought it just made good sense to put the
community calendar in a place where everybody would have access to it.
And for those who don't have a computer close to hand, we're also going
to begin distributing a printed version that should be located in such
area establishments as The Cheese Store, the Piggly Wiggly Grocery
Store, and other convenient locations. So keep your eyes peeled for
the New Sweet Springs Community Calendar.
Also, should you have an event, meeting, or other type of gathering
please feel free to email me (James
Noble), the where, the what, and the when and I will be glad to
add it to the online Calendar anytime that I get it. If you'd like to
get it into the published calendar I will need to have it by the last
week of the month in order to get it into the next month's published
calendar.
Should you have quite a bit of information about your event we can
still get that information online. We'll simply create a link from the
calendar event to a page that gives much more detailed information
about your event.
At
this time, I'm not taking any call in events. Everything must be
submitted through email. But the good thing is the price is right. All
calendar events (including detailed events) are listed in the online
calendar and the published calendar for free. Just another friendly
service of I-70 Medical Center. Don't forget to email those events to
jnoble@i70medcenter.com .
Click Here to Visit the Sweet Springs Community
Calendar for July 2008
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Your pharmacist is the least expensive and most
accessible health resource you have. |
Hi, this is James Noble for I-70 Medical Center
in Sweet Springs, Missouri.
An educated patient knows the benefits of
developing a personal relationship with a pharmacist. Your goal is
to be on a first-name basis with your pharmacist, so that at some
point two years from now, he’ll mutter to himself, “Hmmmmm… Jane’s
doctor has never prescribed this before, and it doesn’t seem right,
so I’d better shoot that doctor a call.” Sure, it might seem easier
to forge a personal relationship with one pharmacist at a smaller
mom-and-pop pill dispensary rather than the new mega-drugstore with
thirty-nine aisles, but there are educated patients that establish
great relationships at the Super Pharmacies as well. Even if the
huge store has a rotating shift of six pharmacists, the savvy
patient will know the one who is there every Wednesday by 9:00 am
after dropping off the kids,
but
leaves by 3:15 pm to pick ‘em up again.
The caveat here is to be certain that whatever
pharmacy you choose, it should use the latest cross-checking
software and medication-monitoring technology. Ask the pharmacist
what he uses. After all, it’s your s or a loved one’s health and
safety that are on the line.
You can find a wealth of
information to help protect you and your family’s health at
www.i70medcenter.com.
Or, I encourage you to visit our I-70 Family Clinic in Sweet Springs
Missouri, where walk-ins are always welcome.
And to our faithful listeners who live in the
Concordia, Missouri area, be looking for the brand new I-70 Family
Concordia Clinic coming to your community this fall. Where once
again whether a mishap or illness is scheduled on your calendar or
ours, You are always welcome.
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This Week's Health Tip of the Week |
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Health Tip of the Week!
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Can Juice Really Make You Healthier?
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Can Juice Really Make You Healthier?
You may
have dismissed it as just another food fad, but experts are putting
a whole new spin on the beverage. Read on, then start sipping.
On most days, you do everything you can to work more fruits and
vegetables into your diet: You add berries to your oatmeal, pile
spinach on your pizza, and swap out your fries for a side salad.
While you should be congratulated for your efforts, chances are you,
like more than 70 percent of adults, aren’t hitting the USDA target
of nine servings of produce (that’s four half-cup servings of fruit
and five half-cup servings of vegetables) daily
That’s where juice comes in. “It can be overwhelming for busy women
to try to get the fruits and vegetables they need,” says Kathy
McManus, R.D., director of the department of nutrition at Brigham
and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “Drinking 12 ounces a day can be a
convenient way to get two servings closer to your produce goal.”
Juice also can boost your health, as the
nutrients normally found in these beverages have been credited with
everything from warding off cancer to preventing age-related
ailments. A recent study published in
The American Journal of Medicine
concluded that people who drank three-plus servings per week of
juices high in polyphenols—antioxidants found in purple grape,
grapefruit, cranberry, and apple juice—had a 76 percent lower risk
of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Plus, some store-bought juices
are actually higher in certain nutrients than the fruits and
vegetables they came from (see the boxes in this story for
specifics).
The key, according to McManus, is to make juice a supplement to
rather than a substitute for all of the fruits and vegetables in
your daily diet. Though these beverages are generally higher in
sugar and calories and lower in fiber than their whole counterparts,
research shows that a combination of the two may be the most
beneficial to your overall health. The Harvard-based Nurses’ Health
Study found that adults who had the highest intake of produce in
both solid and liquid form— about eight servings per day—were 30
percent less likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those who
got 1.5 or fewer servings daily. Plus, their overall risk for any
type of chronic disease was 12 percent lower than the fruit and
veggie skimpers’. To squeeze more nutrients out of every single sip,
follow this expert advice.
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