Gardening For the Health Of It
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends 2.5 hours of moderate to vigorous activity each week for optimal physical health, concluding that this amount of exercise reduces the risk of:
The Risk of Salmonella in Backyard Chickens
If you’ve been buying cage-free eggs, or eggs from your local farmer, or even raising your own chickens to lower your risk of salmonella, our concierge doctors in Jupiter have some unhappy news for you: Most chickens, ducks, and turkeys carry some form of the more than 2,000 types of salmonella, according to Craig Coufal, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service poultry specialist.
Don’t Take Your Eyes Off Kids Around Water
Now that summer’s here and school is out, we’ll be spending more time at the beach and around the pool with our kids.
What to Know About Sunscreens
Because May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, our primary care doctors in Jupiter want to remind you of the dangers of sun exposure and remind you of the best way to avoid it.
It’s important to know the facts about skin cancer and the sun, along with exposure to tanning beds, because the National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that this year 99,780 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with melanomas of the skin, and that 7,650 people will die from this most deadly form of cancer.
But a proper use of an effective sunscreen can prevent most skin cancers.
Navigating the Current Baby Formula Shortage
At this point in the pandemic, we’re better off than we were 18-20 months ago when store shelves were stripped nearly bare of almost every essential. But scattered shortages still linger, including a serious shortage of baby formula.
Is the Pandemic Over? Not Quite
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comment that we are “certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase” of COVID-19 sparked numerous questions to our primary care concierge doctors in Jupiter.
It also seemed to cause a great deal of confusion and misconceptions around the country at large, at least until he clarified his statement the following day.
IBS: Don’t Be Embarrassed About This Common Disorder
From the time we’re little kids, any mention of bowel habits can trigger giggling embarrassment. We’re not sure why that is, because the intestine is simply another organ in the body. Nevertheless, our concierge primary care doctors in Jupiter know that talking about bowel disorders can be uncomfortable for our patients.
Spring Allergies Are Here: What You Can Do
If you think your allergies have been getting worse over the last few years, you’re not imagining it.
Pets as Medicine?
There are so many reasons we love our pets: companionship, loyalty, entertainment, and unconditional love. It’s estimated that at least 68 percent of American homes have at least one pet.
More Studies Find Benefits of Coffee
If you love your morning cup of java, our concierge primary care doctors at MD 2.0 in Jupiter want to encourage you to drink up. That’s because recent research has linked benefits of regular coffee consumption to a decreased risk of diabetes, heart disease, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and liver cancer.
And there’s more good news from a new study by the American Heart Association (AHA). It found that drinking one or more cups of plain, caffeinated coffee a day was associated with a long-term reduced risk of heart failure.