With back to school season upon us, and the seasonal flu likely peeking around the corner, it's important to ensure the vitamins and nutrients you take in are being fully utilized to maintain a strong immune system. Here's an easy and tasty way to do just that.

The habit, although it’s so ever-present it may be more of an environmental thing than a habit…has been reported to cause all kinds of risks and damage to people’s health, but this is a new one… increasing a person’s risk of colon cancer by 60%. But it is a risk you CAN control... you just need to know of the risk, and the possible controls...

Did you know that if you follow the advice to eat probiotic-rich foods like yogurt and sauerkraut to help improve your gut health — or if you take probiotic supplements for that purpose — you still have to “feed” those probiotics to get them to stick around long enough to be of benefit to you? You do... and we just read about a study that found a very popular and good-tasking snack type food is really good at this.

We all know we are supposed to be washing our hands as often as possible during this Covid-19 pandemic, and many dog owners are wisely cleaning their dogs' paws more now too... but beware of using this on your dogs' paws, as the FDA has warned that it may cause illness or even death for them...

I couldn't quite believe that dogs could be that picky... until our own dog gave me that dirty look....