By Barb Nadeau – It seems that every cause needs a day on our calendars. We have special days, holidays, days of remembrance, awareness days, there is always something that we humans want to celebrate or acknowledge on any single day. June is full of special days, such as: Flip
By Deena Sherman – Some news reports have called suicide a national health crisis after many recent deaths that include high-profile individuals such as Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Many want to take comfort that it is solely about an illness that overtakes some, and nothing more. I don’t believe
Geneva: Cancer survivors carry a banner with handprints of survivors to step off the annual American Cancer Society 2018 Relay for Life of Kane County at Northwestern Medicine Field in Geneva Friday. Al Benson/The Voice
Kane County Sheriff, Don Kramer, discusses the Heroin Highway at the Kiwanis Club of Aurora Tuesday at the Prisco Center in Aurora. Highways heading west from the West Side of Chicago, a central hub, are known as the Heroin Highway. Kramer answered questions and explained how law enforcement is working
She wasn’t alone, though, because many of her generation, early to mid-20th Century, bore a deep understanding of what it really meant to be healthy. Sadly, they lived during times when medicine was changing from the old-fashioned holistic approach to the modern beliefs about drugs, surgery, and radiation, thank you,
Good health is not a single track proposition. Good food and drug-free living offer the best head start. The two are connected. Last week the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, U.S. Navy, from Indiana, was in Kane County for appearances on the opioid epidemic, which has grown exponentially, recently.
Rick Niksic, left, an education and outreach representative with Greenhouse, a licensed medical marijuana dispensary and pharmacy, shares a presentation at the Rotary Club of Aurora Monday. He spoke about the positive effects cannabinoids have on the human body. Patients as young as four suffering from seizures can make it
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, U.S. Navy, gives remarks to approximately 60 individuals in Aurora at the Kane County Health Department roundtable on the opioid drug epidemic. On the panel to his left are Chris Lauzen, Kane County Board chairman, U.S. congressman Randy Hultgren, 14th District. In the audience
By Grace Grzanek – April 15 marked three years that Eddie has lived in his memory care nursing facility in southeast Aurora. Not once in those three years has he been offered a fresh tomato, or a fresh carrot, or a fresh mushroom, or a fresh piece of celery or
The University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. recently reported on its study results about a new, innovative, antioxidant. The report was entitled, “Novel antioxidant makes old blood vessels seem young again”, which certainly grabs the reader’s attention. Who wouldn’t want to have blood vessels that seem younger? The work demonstrates
Master Xin Qi, right, looking into the middle of the circle, of Panda Kung Fu & Tai Chi in Naperville, leads a fitness routine Saturday for those who may suffer from Parkinson’s disease. The special event was at Jesse “The Law” Boxing Club in Aurora at the Fox Valley Park
North Aurora resident Mary White explains the benefits of a boxing-inspired fitness routine to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease at the Kiwanis Club of Aurora Tuesday at the Prisco Center in Aurora. For three years she has worked out with the Rock Steady Boxing program at Jesse “The Law”
My name is Marie Schindlbeck Pierce. I founded our ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) group TEAM T.O.M. with my six siblings in 2013 after the loss of our brother, Tom Schindlbeck, to ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is a progressive, fatal neuromuscular disorder that occurs when motor nerve cells cease
The color purple is popular with religious organizations and there is a movie entitled “The Color Purple” with Oprah Winfrey. AARP (American Association for Retired Persons) writer Kim Hayes submitted the following article regarding purple superfoods such as cauliflower which provides key vitamins for a diet. Hayes wrote: “The late
A 71-year-old man reports he’s been taking numerous drugs for years, including statins to lower cholesterol. He’s so weak he can hardly get around and has, “no power for anything,” he has said. He had a heart attack years ago and had a stent installed. His doctors want him to
“Grow Your Own Groceries – in Containers,” a free seminar to help save money, build health, find more pleasure in tastier food, and acquire more energy by eating healthy, will take place Sunday, April 8, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., at Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren, 738 West
Ernestine Shepherd, 81, the world’s oldest female body builder, shares physical fitness tips at an Aurora health fair Saturday. Al Benson/The Voice By Al Benson – Determined. Dedicated. Disciplined to be fit for life. That was the mantra shared by fitness guru Ernestine Shepherd, 81, in Aurora Saturday. Speaking on
Robert J. O’Connor, Aurora alderman-at-large, center, pauses for a photo after presenting a proclamation to Aurora University’s athletic training program at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday at City Hall. March was proclaimed as Athletic Training Month. From left to right, athletic training students Christina Hurtado, Alejandra Villagomez (O’Connor), Dr.
Aurora resident Nicole Garcia, 4, practices basketball shooting at the 13th annual community health fair at Aurora Christian School Saturday. Aurora African-American Health Coalition was the sponsor. See pages 7 and 8. Al Benson/The Voice
“Self-Care for Caregivers”, an interactive workshop for family caregivers older than the age 50, will be presented at Panera Bread, 154 W Wilson Street, Batavia, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 27. The workshop will be led by Karen Hunter, a certified holistic wellness coach and family caregiver
