A good potion for poison ivy
Q. I’ve used milk of magnesia to clear up poison ivy. I used to get poison ivy all over after clearing the weeds and grass from my mowers in the Texas winds. I had to go to the doctor for a steroid shot to clear it up.
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A support group for the wives of those with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia will be held at 5 p.m. today at Alzheimer’s Association of WNY, 2805 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville. For more information, call 626-0600.
Nuts essential to health of brain and body
They’re among the earliest known foods. Archaeological evidence suggests that tree nuts were a major part of the human diet 780,000 years ago. Several varieties of nuts, along with the stone tools necessary to crack them open, have been found buried deep in bogs in the Middle East. Rich in energy and loaded with nutrients, nuts and, particularly, their cargo of omega-3 fatty acids are thought to have been essential to the evolution of the large, complex human brain.
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Appreciating middle age Middle-aged people may run the world, but you would hardly know it from their public image.
Walking a path to good health
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Margie Warden is walking. It’s 4:45 a.m., and even some of the birds aren’t up yet, but she’s walking. She’s 70 years old and sweating through a gray shirt as she trudges up a long hill in the dark. She’ll walk six miles on the grounds of Kansas City Kansas Community College before the sun comes up. Ten years from now — God willing, she says — she’ll still be walking six miles every day. She’ll walk in the heat, in the cold, in the rain and the snow, because that’s what she has done every morning for 41 years.
Beware of bee allergy
Q. I was a nanny last summer, and one day we were in the kids’ backyard. Their dog knocked a yellow jacket down, but it was still alive. Unaware of this, I walked on the deck where the yellow jacket was lying upside down. I stepped on it and immediately went down. My foot and calf swelled up within seconds, and I found it hard to breathe.
Bicycling your way to fitness
Don and Darla Daley of Royal Oak, Mich., are discovering what many people are getting to know. Bicycling is a great route to fun and fitness for people of all ages.
Chocolate now health food?
Americans have a strong Puritan ethic. They figure that if it hurts or tastes bad, it must be good for you. That may partially explain the earnest embrace of prohibitions in our quest for good health.
Love can survive anything
They are sitting on the piano bench that has been dragged to the front hall because the light is better there. He is 87 and she is 86. They are the parents of a best friend and will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary. They are here because the husband and I occasionally do portraits for people if our arms are twisted just so.
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Best bets:
- Thu 5/17: Tyler Perry's Madea Gets a Job
- Fri 5/18: An Evening with Yanni
- Fri 5/18: Michael Feinstein presenting the Sinatra Project
- Fri 5/18: Lee "Scratch" Perry
- Sat 5/19: Collective Soul
- Sat 5/19: Louis Prima Jr.
- Sat 5/19: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
- Wed 5/23: Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit
- Thu 5/24: North Sea Gas
- Fri 5/25: An Evening of Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake and Serenade
- Sat 5/26: Rich Little
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