Wellbeing Natural Health in Cornelius is offering a series of events in the coming weeks focusing on natural health, from a Chinese New Year celebration to a free talk on natural techniques for enhancing fertility. Continue Reading

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Lake Norman Regional Medical Center will host a Women’s Health Day, Health and Heart A La Carte, on Saturday, Feb. 6, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Charles Mack Citizen Center in downtown Mooresville. The event features Dona Caine Francis, acclaimed author and speaker on women’s issues, as the keynote, opening presenter. Continue Reading

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By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

As a lifelong athlete now past the 50 mark, the aches and pains that follow my Sunday morning pickup soccer games are a constant reminder of the limitations that come with aging. As I try to keep up with teens and twenty-somethings on the field, my brain remembers what I once could do; my body can’t do it it any longer. Pass the ibuprofen, please.

Some men think there’s another answer: hormones. The Sunday, Jan. 17, New York Times Magazine, has an article about a Sunday morning soccer player about my age – 51-year-old John Bellizzi – who uses vitamins and hormone injections to stay in the game. But, there are risks, the magazine notes. Continue Reading

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By LYNDSAY KIBILOSKI
DavidsonNews.net

A friend and I decided to take a late evening trip to Starbucks the other night for a wintertime favorite, hot chocolate. I approached the counter, ordered and was immediately confronted with some bad news: My favorite, the salted caramel hot chocolate, had been discontinued. When I asked the obvious “Why?” I was told that it had too many calories. Continue Reading

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