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How to Lower Your Risk for Colorectal Cancer: Part 2

January 31, 2025 |

Making healthy lifestyle choices can help to prevent the development of CRC for both the young and the old.  But modifications in daily activities, such as what you put into your body and how much you move it, can only be generated by yourself.  No on else can do it for you. Here are some…

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How to Lower Your Risk for Colorectal Cancer: Part 1

January 17, 2025 |

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer diagnosis.  While the rate of CRC in people over the age of 55 has been declining since the 1980s, adults 20 to 39 years of age are seeing their rate increasing by about 1 to 2.4% every year.  Worryingly, those born around 1990 have almost double…

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Humans and Carbs: A Complicated 800,000-Year Relationship

January 3, 2025 |

Has meat really played the starring role in the evolution of the human diet?  It is true that early hominins craved meat but it turns out that what our distant ancestors desired and what they actually acquired were not the same. Observation of present-day hunter-gatherer societies reveals that they have negligible success as hunters, even…

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Cycling is Good For Your Knees

December 20, 2024 |

A recently published study looked at the effects on the knees from bicycling, specifically at the symptoms and outcomes of knee osteoarthritis, and discovered that cycling can have significant benefits. (1) Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and affects millions of people worldwide.  It occurs when the cartilage cushioning the ends of bones…

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Holiday Hints and Hacks for 2024: Part Two

December 6, 2024 |

A Plant-Based Holiday Dinner   The December holiday season is rolling quickly towards us and with it come festivities with family and friends and the inevitable foods of celebration.  Unhappily, the traditional foods we prepare at this time of year are not usually at the top of the healthy check list. Whatever holiday you may…

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My name is Debra Harley (BScPhm) and I welcome you to my retirement project, this website. Over the course of a life many lessons are learned, altering deeply-rooted ideas and creating new passions.