Reaching the Stars
When your time is crunched instead of your abs, it’s easy to want to pass on working out.
Protecting Women’s Hearts
Heart disease doesn’t just attack overweight, middle-aged men with high cholesterol.
Swine Flu Vaccine on the North Shore: What You Need to Know
The swine flu vaccine has started arriving in Chicagoland and will be available to some people in area clinics, as well as some doctors offices, pharmacies and schools in the coming weeks.
If You Suspect Your Child May Have An Eating Disorder
Your daughter is perfect. She’s smart, funny, and has friends. At her demanding North Shore high school, she’s taking advanced classes and getting great grades. She’s also an athlete and active volunteer. Really, quite accomplished. Except lately, you’re starting to get a parent vibe that maybe perfection is taking a toll on your child. […]
Much-Kneaded Medicine
The interior of the Shawn Mossell Massage Therapy Center in Wilmette looks like any other doctor’s office. It’s calm and quiet, with awards and machines decorating rooms that line a long hallway. But here in this remarkably ordinary place, lives are changed. “My work corrects the posture of the body,” says Mossell, an accredited member […]
Toxin In Breast Milk?
Breastfeeding is perhaps the most fundamental act of love that exists. After all, it provides a newborn with all the nutrition to grow and the necessary vitamins and minerals to fight disease and infection, while, at the same time, it is an essential bonding experience for both mother and baby. To quote author Pamela Wiggins: […]
Lake Forest Health Guru: You Can Have Your Health And Eat Your Chocolate, Too
Frances Murchison of Lake Forest is one of those women who seems to be starring in her own one-woman show. Her list of roles includes holistic health counselor, lifestyle coach, nutritionist, advertising exec (in a past life), serious yogi (she practices at Highwood’s Sanctuary Yoga), cook, cooking instructor, eating disorder survivor, mother of two, Episcopalian […]
Drinking Age Is Debated At New Trier
From allowances and curfew times to who gets the car this weekend, the unresolved debates between parents and high schoolers are plentiful. One particularly hot issue involving parents and teens is whether or not the drinking age should be lowered. Donald Zeigler, a representative from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and Alex Koroknay-Palicz of the […]
