EAR DR. ROACH: I am a 24-year-old woman. My mother had ductal carcinoma in situ in her mid-40s, successfully treated with surgery and radiation. One of my paternal aunts survived a malignant breast cancer. Am I considered high risk for breast cancer? I know my mom’s cancer increases my risk, but does DCIS increase the risk level as much as a malignant cancer? When should I start undergoing mammograms or other screening? -- C.P.
“Well, if it isn’t the Fleming girls,” Santa’s deep voice boomed to my sister and I. The year was about 1967 and two little girls stood amazed before this man clad in red and white in a shopping mall in a Kansas City suburb. It was like standing before the powerful and all-knowing Oz. He continued, “I happen to know that after you two go to bed each night you giggle and tell each other stories until your parents have to come to your bedroom door and tell you to go to sleep.” We nodded in wide-eyed silence. What else could we do? It was Santa. And he had just disclosed our nightly routine that only we knew. There we were standing before him, and he knew our names! The stories about him delivering presents one night a year to every household to good girls and boys made him mysterious to us. We were believers.
A nutritious diet is a vital component of a healthy lifestyle. When it’s part of a health regimen that includes routine exercise, a healthy diet that’s rich in fruits and vegetables can help people reduce their risk for various illnesses, including chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
Life’s mysteries unfold in odd ways, don’t they? The Wall Street Journal reports that churches by the thousands are signing up for a service to do to us what corporations and other private groups have done for years –select their targets based on specific, revelatory and actionable data that you might have thought was your own darned business.
Ask Amy: Friend worries about pandemic’s toxic effect Tribune Content Agency -- December 30, 2021 Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: I am very concerned about a former co-worker. I met “Gerry” two years ago when we were on the same project team.
Here’s a fun fact I just read it in new book called The Blue Zones Challenge by Dan Buettner. Most New Year’s Resolutions last for 4-6 weeks. Then people go back to their old habits.
I want to thank the wonderful people of Salina who showed up on a brutally cold and windy night to honor Sen. Bob Dole’s final journey to Kansas.
I am no stranger to the workings of the Congress. My father was a U.S. senator back in the 1960s and 1970s. I grew up walking the halls of the Congress and the Capitol building. So you might understand the effect the Jan. 6 insurrection had on me.
I subscribe to Rep. Jake LaTurner’s weekly newsletter as one of my sources to know what is going on. I find it often full of hyperbole and maybe a little gray in its assertions and often just a reprint of GOP leadership talking points.
Last week’s windstorms brought damage to thousands of Kansans. In Kansas, 24 counties issued local disaster declarations.