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In this week’s Fitness Facts, Connie Colbert alerts us to some simple ways to stay healthy during cold and flu season.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade tackles a topic that goes straight to the heart — finding a path to forgiveness. “Forgiveness – not for the offender but for the wounded – is a magical and giant eraser of all the negative, angry, begrudged ‘edicts’ that you have written on your heart,” she writes.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade taps into her love of dogs to tell the story of Jimmy, a “mutt” who became the darling of the Westminster Dog Show. It’s a tale filled with life lessons.

In this week’s Fitness Facts, guest writer Jo Gott explains the difference between a cold and the flu. Right from the onset, there’s a big difference between the two.

Connie Colbert says not to close your eyes to eye pain, which could range from pink eye to flash burns and inflammation of the iris. These conditions should never be ignored and often can be treated at home.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade says repairing a broken marriage is not easy, but it is possible.

Collecting things — baseball cards, Beanie Babies, stamps — is perfectly natural. But like most anything, extremes can be unhealthy. Dr. Deb. Wade writes about hoarding, an anxiety disorder that affects 2 to 5 percent of the U.S. population.

Antibiotics have been extremely effective and often lifesaving in the treatment of some infectious diseases. But they don’t cure everything and can sometimes cause medical problems. Also, their overuse has resulted in some bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant. Connie Colbert talks antibiotics in this week’s Fitness Facts.

In this week’s Fitness Facts, Connie Colbert delves into the new revolution — the More Matters revolution. More of what? Why, fruits and vegetables, of course. It’s positively revolutionary.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade has some clear thoughts about static — the “roommate” that takes residence in our brain and can cause all sorts of problems.