So appropriate for Father’s Day, June is Men’s Health Month. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics shares information to help men make healthy nutritional choices throughout life. For men, every decade has its own health concerns, from weight creep to heart disease, all which change the types and amounts of food men need to eat during each life stage. The…
It happened in seconds. The phone rang while Maggie was carrying in the groceries with her mom, who has Alzheimer’s disease. By the time Maggie hung up on what proved to be a robocall, Mom was gone! Maggie was frantic. Luckily, she had alerted the neighbors that Mom was confused and tended to get lost. “Thank goodness,” she breathed as…
Does this sound familiar? Your coworker comes back after two weeks in a tropical paradise. She’s tan, relaxed and passing around photos of herself in her swimsuit on a catamaran, enjoying an umbrella drink at a luau and swimming with sea turtles. You think to yourself that the way you spent your week off—helping your elderly mom move to a…
