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  • Healthy Recipe of the Week

    Nancy Gossard, Wellness Editor|Updated Feb 14, 2019

    HEALTHY RECIPE OF THE WEEK Eat a salad every day Unless you have a health issue that forbids it, one of the best things you can do is eat a salad every day, even on a low carb diet. Sixteen ounces, one pound, of baby butter lettuce has only 10.67g carbs and when you subtract the fiber of 5.4g, your net carbs are 5.27g. For a pound! I'm probably the only person who has thought she could eat a whole pound of lettuce in one sitting. I don't recommend actually trying it. Bagged le...

  • What to Expect from Wellness Section

    Nancy Gossard, Wellness Editor|Updated Feb 12, 2019

    Wellness is a broad term, but my hope as editor of this section is to provide articles that are informative and practical to our lives. I plan to cover body, mind, and spirit since we need to be healthy in all these areas, at least as much as we can be, to get the most out of life. For instance, the City of Lake Wales web site has a link for adult activities that lists shuffleboard, tennis, pickleball, ultimate Frisbee, and bridge. The library and the YMCA both have yoga...

  • What Influences Longevity?

    Palmer Wood, News Editor|Updated Feb 10, 2019

    Sometime ago I read where a Japanese man died at age 113 in his sleep. It was a remarkably long time to live, especially for a male. On the average women seem to outlive men. A Puerto Rican man died in 2007 at the age of 115; extraordinary to say the least. The most recent was a man who served in our Army in World War Two, who died at 110. This man was the oldest centenarian in this country to recently die. My mother's father was born in 1827 and lived to be 84, which is not...