Healthwatch: Active Lifestyle Beneficial
WTOK-TV - Pauline Chadwell will celebrate her 82nd birthday on July 2 and she's feeling very well. She attributes that to exercise. She participates in what is offered at North Hills Family Medical Clinic. "I walk four miles every day here five days a week

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
WHO-TV - SUNDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) — The local health club used to be a mecca for the young and fabulously fit, a place to sweat a bit and then preen to be seen. But in case you haven't noticed, clubs and gyms have taken on a decidedly grayer tint of

Garden Variety: Some Tools and Tips for Bigger Gardening Chores
Berkeley Daily Planet - I rarely venture into my garden with constructive intent but without my Felco pruners and my hori-hori. Most of the time those hand tools are enough because I have a very small garden. Sometimes, though, I need to do something that requires two hands

Love to be 'in the know?'
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Want to grow a green thumb? Learn what plants grow best here? Know when to prune and not to prune your plants or how to deal with pests in your yard? Or, is a pretty lawn what you like to nurture? The Diggin' In e-newsletter is your source for

Starting plants from seed takes gardening full cycle
Los Angeles Daily News - NEW MARKET, Va. (AP) - A fellow I know says real gardeners get things growing by starting with seed. Filling your garden with bedding plants, the gentleman suggests, is simply landscaping. He's taking propagation styles to extremes, of course. But

Weight Management Drugs
WOOD - FRIDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — You may not be able to tear your boss' hair out — but you can snatch the weeds from your flowerbeds. You may not have the desire to schlep to your gym's power-lift class — but you can lug bags of soil and push your

The Container Plant
Slate - Click here for the third installment of Slate's guide to planting a beginner's garden. Click here and here for the first two installments. A garden I admire a lot has no lawn, no trees. It's the sort of garden you might see in front of a whitewashed