Many times, comfort, practicality, and improvement in quality of life may outweigh novelty when picking a gift for an elderly person. Getting seniors a gift can be very challenging. This is because they might have downsized their living spaces or may live in group home with little to no personal space. Thus, house gifts may…
Go ahead and take a bite of a crisp, ready-to-eat apple. It’s the most common way people eat apples. Canned, baked, and purred into applesauce are popular ways to enjoy apples, too. In the United States, people eat a lot of apples. In fact, the average adult eats 46 pounds of apples a year. And…
Heart disease is a major health problem in the United States. An estimated 735,000 adults have a heart attack every year, and thousands more struggle with heart-disease-related problems. And if you’re on dialysis, it’s even more important to be proactive about keeping your heart healthy. Here are some things you can do to be heart-healthy:…
When the seasons change, trees begin to lose their leaves, and temperature drops, you know Mother Nature is ushering in the fall season. But that hardly means it’s time to start thinking about hibernation. There are many fun and enjoyable activities you can do with family and friends in the fall: Take a trip to…
If you’re trying to lose weight, or maintain a healthy weight you’ve worked hard to achieve, you know your food choices play a big part in tipping the scale in the right direction. But for a lot of people, making smart choices for meals and snacks isn’t always easy. You probably don’t have a personal…
When winter weather arrives, many people look forward to snowfall, winter activities like skiing and snowboarding, and the coziness of drinking hot chocolate or coffee by a warm fire indoors. You might enjoy these things too, but when you have renal disease, it’s important to take certain precautions to protect your health during the cold-weather…
Eat less salt. You’ve heard the advice before. And it might sound like it’s a sentence to somehow enjoy eating flavorless foods. Fortunately, many foods and dishes still taste great without being loaded with sodium, and there are multiple ways you can lower the amount of sodium in your diet. Keep Your Hands Off the…
When you have diabetes, you’ve got to monitor a number of factors to protect your health. Checking your blood sugar levels a few times a day is one of them. Regular exercise and weight management is too. But perhaps the most important factor that influences blood sugar levels is your food choices. If you have…
Was it a cruel joke perpetrated by the bottled water industry? Was it designed, for some unknown reason, (maybe a nefarious government conspiracy) to get us all to pee more? No one is really sure where the 8×8 myth (we MUST drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water every day) came from. Where the myth…
I recently got together with our busy president, Michelle Tayler, and asked her a few questions. Q: Where did you grow up? A: I grew up in Michigan living on a lake. I enjoyed boating, water skiing and fishing in the summer, and snowmobiling in the winter. Q: What got you interested in food? A:…