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In this week’s Fitness Facts, nurse practitioner Cyndi Braun explains why oral health is so important — it affects your entire body. If you brush and floss regularly and don’t smoke or vape, you’re going to save yourself — and your mouth — a lot of trouble later on.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade explores a topic that is of critical importance to many parents these days — addiction to video games. The World Health Organization has declared that gaming is an addiction when at least five factors are present — here’s the list.

In this week’s Fitness Facts, family nurse practitioner Lily Limon has the latest on breast cancer awareness. Do you know what it looks and feels like and what the symptoms are?

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade writes about mental strength — what it looks like among athletes, leaders and employees and how it can be built if you need more of it. It’s not something you’re born with, it’s something you develop and maintain.

In this week’s Fitness Facts, Connie Colbert has good advice about how to avoid getting the flu this winter. She points out that in today’s world there are a lot more places to come into contact with germs, such as touchscreens.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade writes about seasonal affective disorder, which has an appropriate acronym (SAD). She offers tips for how to beat the blues as fall turns into winter.

In this week’s Fitness Facts, Connie Colbert gives us a heads-up on dandruff. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not related to how often you wash your hair. Here are some ways to prevent it.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade uses a Dierks Bentley song as a jumping-off point for her thoughts about breaking out of the doldrums. “It’s a beautiful world sometimes I don’t see so clear,” the lyrics. go. Here’s how to open your eyes.

In this week’s Fitness Facts, guest writer Jo Gott delves into a subject that will make any parent cringe — head lice. Trying to get those critters out of your child’s hair can be a nightmare. Here’s how to do it.

In this week’s Mental Health Vitamin, Dr. Deb Wade explains what being the wife of a football coach has taught her about marriage — there actually are a lot of similar characteristics.