- Health
Wise
- Listen
to yourself
By
GREGORY K. MOFFATT, PH. D
Child's Play
Even
though I work with children all the time and I try always to measure
my words carefully, I sometimes forget how I sound to them. Even adults
misinterpret our meaning by listening to our tone. People I work with
have misunderstood my animated tone as anger when it was actually frustration,
disappointment, or excitement. More than once my own children have believed
that I was angry with them, not because of my words, but because they
misunderstood how I said those words.
Bringing
Chiropractic Care to the Crow and Fayette County
In the last few
weeks the Crow Nation Pow-wow brought crowds to the reservation. They
came for food, for native dancing and for chiropractic care. Local chiropractor,
Dr. Elliott Segal and his wife Linda Segal, a nurse, were part of a
mission team from the Christian Chiropractor's Association.
Want
to help fight disease? Just wash your hands
One of the most
effective methods for preventing the spread of disease-causing bacteria
and other germs is a simple act most of us perform everyday: washing
our hands. What we don't do is perform this act properly or often enough.
In this age of SARS and other serious diseases that are spread by human
contact, practicing good hand washing habits can provide an effective
extra line of defense for you and everyone around you.
Healthy
lunchbox makeovers
Students'
most important sense: Sight
Petting the classroom
rabbit, tasting an afternoon snack, listening to a story, smelling a
budding flower, and seeing words on the chalkboard children use all
five senses to learn in the classroom. But if the words on the chalkboard
are blurry and hard to read, much of a student's efforts will be spent
making sense of a blurry world not on the lesson or task at hand.
Are
generic drugs really safe?
Has your pharmacist
ever asked you about substituting a generic drug for your regular prescription?
Here's what you should know before you answer that question: Pill coatings,
colorings or shapes may vary, but the active ingredient in a generic
drug is chemically identical to the brand-name drug and all generic
drugs undergo rigorous testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Georgia
pediatricians target obesity
Georgia pediatricians
are banding together to focus on the enormous task of preventing obesity
and treating its consequences. The Committee on Nutrition for the state's
chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics drafted a bold, comprehensive
approach for doctors, families and communities to put into effect immediately.
Fact
sheet: Preventing childhood drowning
The problem
Plastic
surgeon opens office in Fayette
A well-respected
plastic surgeon from southern California has opened his practice at
Fayette Community Hospital.
Get
fit: A prescription for good health
What does exercise
mean to you?Some folks think of exercise as walking down the driveway
for the paper while others regard exercise as using the Stair Master
for 45 minutes at high intensity.There are many perceptions of exercise.Recreation
and leisure activities, sports performance, maintaining fitness are
but a few of these perceptions.However, today let's examine how exercise
can play an important role in helping treat certain health issues.
Scoliosis:Dangerous
curves, for juniors and seniors
In conjunction with
the upcoming Sept. 810 open house celebrating the anniversary
of the opening of the Durden Chiropractic Clinic, scoliosis screenings
and school bag safety screenings will be performed at no charge.
HMO
negotiations break down
PROMINA Health System
announced last week that its HMO negotiations with WellPoint-owned Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia had collapsed over WellPoint's refusal
to allow PROMINA physicians in its network.
Leaving
a child in the car can be deadly
A young child's
core body temperature can increase three to five times faster than that
of an adult, making a car and heat a dangerous combination. As temperatures
increase this summer, parents should be aware of the dangers of leaving
their children in cars, according to Carol Ball, executive director
of SAFE KIDS of Georgia for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
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