Switching gears as we bid farewell to summer
There is a very specific feeling that hits us every year around this time. The mornings start to feel a little different, the light changes, and somewhere in the back of our minds a switch flips that says summer is ending and it is time to get serious again. If we...
Back to school, back to vaccines: What parents need to know
August means squeezing in the last beach days, shopping for school supplies and getting everyone back on a schedule. It is also National Immunization Awareness Month, making this a good time to add one more item to the back-to-school checklist: make sure your child’s...
New protein guidelines: Are you getting enough?
How much protein did you eat today? If you are like many Americans, it may not have been enough, especially under the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which put much more emphasis on protein than previous recommendations. The average American man eats roughly 90...
The world’s deadliest animal is in our backyard
Here’s a pop quiz for you: what animal harms or kills more people worldwide than any other? A shark? A snake? Maybe a lion? It’s actually the mosquito. It is hard to believe something so small could cause so much trouble, but mosquitoes are considered the...
