BIG RAPIDS Adjacent to the Water Tower Apartments is a healthcare facility that encompasses much more than meets the eye. Family Health Care has been in operation in Big Rapids since 2020, located at 730 Water Tower Road. Their one building provides medical, dental, and behavioral care. The organization began in 1967 in Baldwin. Over its 46-year history it has expanded to six locations: White Cloud, McBain, Grant, Cadillac, Baldwin and Big Rapids. The facilities next to all Family Health Care locations are unique in helping people get health care…
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Your friends and family may be making you fat: Diet Sabotage Study
Fitness From Emilia Lefroy June 7, 2023 | 2.39pm Don’t bite the hand that feeds you or maybe Do if you are trying to lose weight. We often rely on our loved ones to be the voice of reason when we struggle to stay the course, but a new study suggests friends and family may be the obstacle to our weight-loss goal. According to researchers at the University of Surrey in England, there are three main ways that the people closest to you – friends, family and lovers – can…
Read MoreOntario’s shortage of family doctors is putting lives at risk
A new study by the Ontario College of Family Physicians has found that 2.2 million of the 14 million residents of Canada’s largest and wealthiest province do not have a family doctor. The finding is a major indictment of the for-profit or paid model that is now being promoted as Ontario’s go-to model for surgeries by the province’s Conservative government. “The number of unassigned patients is growing across the province and region,” says Steve Gray, managing director of Medical Associates of Port Perry. “The Medical Associates wait list has never…
Read MoreSummer temperatures are back. Here’s how to boost your hydration for the whole family
With the return of warmer temperatures to Greater Cincinnati, people, including yourself, may be reaching for that bottle of water more often to stay hydrated. it can help hold fluids in in a positive way and help you stay hydrated longer. WLWT spoke to Registered Dietitian Preeti Bansal Kshirsagar. Runs Integrative Nutrition and Healing in Hyde Park to help people better understand and implement specific healthier nutritional habits. When it comes to hydration, Bansal Kshirsagar says both adults and children should drink at least half of their body weight in…
Read MoreI went off grid for 7 months to lose 10 stone – when I got home my family didn’t recognize me
A man has revealed how he lost 10 stone after going into the “desert and off the grid” where he adopted a strict diet and fitness regime. Bryan O’Keeffe, 34, of Cork, Ireland, decided he needed to do something drastic after hitting 24st 2lbs in late 2021. Having tried “all the fad diets and exercise fads” — and even gastric banding surgery — she knew she had to try something different. The entrepreneur then spent seven months in Mallorca secretly transforming his body through diet and exercise. But the move…
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