To Your Health

This is not your grandmother’s enema.

In fact, it is not an enema at all. Colon hydrotherapy is the gentle cleansing of the large intestine, or colon. It is achieved through using warm, filtered water.

Rest assured, it is not uncomfortable either.

For many women, peri-menopause, or the time around when they stop menstruating, can be physically and emotionally draining.

One of our members posted an interesting article about CPR from last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal on the HQ bulletin board.

The Fenwick Medical Complex plans to break ground in September, after not quite four years of planning, including re-zoning, water and sewer development and other preliminary measures.

It’s Week 8 of the Coastal Point Health Tech Challenge, and we’ve expanded the arsenal of high-tech weapons in my own personal battle of the bulges, adding the Nintendo DS and My Weight Loss Coach software to the regimen from the first five weeks of the challenge, which focused on the Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit game.

It’s hard to think about health without thinking about health insurance. Besides gas and food, it’s a top priority for most adults. Everything from how to pay for it, to what it covers, to its limitations — health care is a big concern for many Americans and Delawareans. And rightly so — because without your health, what do you have?

With a growing number of believers climbing every year, one of the oldest health practices in the world is becoming more of an everyday way of life. Perceived by some as a pseudo-scientific or as a painful means of healing, acupuncture has often been ill-regarded by traditional Western medicine, but that is beginning to change.

For Barbara Farrell of Ocean View, the Ocean View Police Department’s Senior Check-in Program is one of the best things about living near the beach.

“I’m a widow and I’m here by myself. And just knowing that they’re looking out for me, I’m not afraid to be here. I really can’t say enough about it,” she said about the program.

As I write this, it’s midway through Week 3 of the Coastal Point Health-Tech Challenge. For those who missed our first installment, in which I set up the technology-friendly health challenge and gave an introduction to the Wii Fit “game,” my goal was to improve my general fitness and to work on losing some weight — 22 pounds as an initial goal, and moving on from there.

Well, it’s the end of Week 2 of the Coastal Point Health-Tech Challenge, and I’ve been pleased with my ability to keep up my new exercise regimen using Wii Fit. On the down side, I’ve gained 4 pounds since starting the program two weeks ago. On the up side, even without verification with a body-fat calculation and with my diet unchanged, I’m positive that all of that extra weight (and probably more) is muscle.

In our recent series of health stories on technologically-savvy ways to get (and stay) in shape, I noted the expected release of the Wii Fit game and balance board peripheral this month. Well, May 22 arrived late last week, and with it my very own copy of the game and my very own balance board.

Women are increasingly at the center of their own health care and many argue that they particularly need to be their own advocates about how and where they will give birth. One thing to remember while pregnant and planning the birth of a baby is that the care provider a woman chooses can have a lot to do with her birth experience and ultimately, how she will feel about it.

The Bethany Beach Town Council voted 6-1 on Friday, April 18, to adopt the smoking ban the town has spent the last seven months debating and turning into legislation. With the vote, the town became the first in the state of Delaware to ban smoking on a public beach. Such bans already exist in many California beach towns, as well as on the Great Lakes and in New England.

Delaware's C-section rate in 1995 statewide was 21.48%; in 2005, it was 29.94%. Sussex County's C-section rate in 1995 was 21.58%; in 2005, it was 33%. VBACs statewide in 1995 were 3.52%; no statistics were available for 2005. (source: CDC)

Many people waver before reaching for a bottle of multivitamins from the store shelf. Perhaps worse, others go right for a bottle that very well may not be what they need at all.

In weeks leading up to the start of summer, hundreds of people turn to healthy and active lifestyles, hoping to shed those last few pounds before slipping back into their swimsuits. It’s the athletic regiment and discipline of the beach patrol that should draw the most attention, however.

With the ever-increasing presence of computers and the Internet in the home, the availability of information on every topic a person could dream of is ballooning. And one of the most common search subjects on the vast World Wide Web is health, as the vast majority of U.S. users of the Internet use their computers to seek out information on health-related topics.

Over the past decades, tens of thousands of individuals have struggled with eating disorders and food addictions, many with minimal results. Until recently, many proposed solutions have failed — primarily because they lack one important component: support.

Growing up in New Jersey, near Rutgers University, Kim Furtado always knew she wanted to be a doctor, but it took a little more than insight to figure out her true calling — naturopathic medicine.

What started as a small endeavor under founder Dr Raymond Yow — the first urologist on the Eastern Shore — has grown into a bustling practice in Salisbury and Berlin, Md., with four doctors, one physician’s assistant and one nurse practitioner. And Peninsula Urology Associates recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of their new satellite office in Millville.