Want to know what vegetable is the number one most nutritious veggie? The Center for Science in the Public Interest gives the award to…..drumroll please……..the sweet potato! Surprised? You probably thought these spuds were duds on the dietary level. After all, we know white potatoes turn quickly into sugar in the bloodstream, so SWEET potatoes…

Noise — it drives us nuts. It also damages our hearing.  As we get older, we see the cumulative effect of the blare of loud music, screaming kids, and roar of traffic of a lifetime.  However, there is hope!  I read that magnesium, found in bananas, artichokes, broccoli, and potatoes, can help prevent noise-induced hearing…

Getting older — how we dread it!  However, the alternative to growing older– dying young — is not so good either.  Don’t despair.  There are lots of things we can do to prevent the ills that befall us when we advance in years. We’ve been talking about one of those ills — hearing loss.  Yesterday…

“What did you say?”  “How’s that?” Paul and I are beginning to sound like a couple of geezers.  I say he is losing his hearing.  He says I mumble.  Sometimes we reverse the order and I say HE mumbles and he says I am going deaf.  And then we blame it on bad acoustics in…

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