Aug 02 2008
Ulcerative Colitis Diet: The Right Food Choices
When you have inflammatory bowel conditions, you need to follow a certain diet plan which will help you heal yourself. Knowing the right food choices and understanding why you should avoid some food products are helpful to make you have a good start. The proper ischemic colitis diet recommendation is also necessary because only the [...]
(ARA) – Getting the flu can have serious consequences, especially for children. Every year, children in the United States get extremely ill and some die from influenza (“the flu”) and its complications. Richard Kanowitz knows this all too well — he and his wife Alissa lost their 4-year-old daughter, Amanda, to the flu four years [...]
Of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis, 80 percent are women, and having a mother with osteoporosis puts a daughter particularly at risk for fractures.
Priscilla Turner, 67, of Memphis, Tenn., knows this risk all too well. Her 90-year-old mother, Jewell Fondren, suffers from osteoporosis (a disease that causes bone to become weak and susceptible to [...]