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Watermelon: Delicious, refreshing and with many health benefits
Watermelon is 92% water (thus the name…) so it naturally is a dehydration preventative or “fix.” Nutritionally, watermelon contains only...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
2 min read


May is Mental Health Awareness Month
Around 19% of adults in the U.S. have anxiety disorders which can take the shape of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Mesothelioma: The what, how and why of this disease
Veterans from the 40s to the 80s are at the highest risk for malignant mesothelioma. Many contractors used asbestos...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Benefitting from ginger
Ginger has been used medicinally for more than 50 centuries and is considered a safe herb with no serious side effects when taken by...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


All about green tea
One of my goals or objectives for this column was to be able to list about ten of “the best” known green teas on the market...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


The 'happy' addicts
The very first component of “responsibility” is awareness. If we refuse to be aware and informed of what is happening with us as individuals

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


New breast cancer treatment/accessibility for the middle class and poor
There is a cancer treatment podcast called “Cancer Straight Talk” from Memorial Sloan Kettering that brings together patients and experts...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Prostate health: Don't ignore it
About 85% of prostate cancers are detected during early screening prior to the patient developing symptoms. If you catch it early...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Ivermectin: The unsung hero
This drug has not even begun to scratch the surface of its potential widespread use and applications. Scientists are surprised, daily...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


The navigationally challenged: Cut us a break
I suppose there are different levels of this affliction. I am fine in my own community going to a new place as many folks can help ...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
4 min read
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Get up and get moving [part 2]
In order to really reverse this problem, all employers need to embrace some change and expect the payback to be long term and “down the road

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read
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Smoking or sitting: Both equally hard on hearts! [Part 1]
Even though most of us have acquired a conscience against smoking, we need to do likewise with the concept of sitting for too many hours.

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Surgeon General's weigh-in: Social media and our children
The sad part is that all the above mentioned, for the most part, is not the case with most of the young people. They almost treat social...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
4 min read


AGS: The doc who discovered Alpha-gal Syndrome
As of 2019, Dr. Platts-Mills headed the University of Virginia’s Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and has been on the worldwide..

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Alpha-gal syndrome
In a CDC report, it showed that between 2010 and 2022 more than 110,000 suspected cases of AGS were identified!

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


A to Z Herbology
This plant can be trained as a topiary form and the flowers can be infused and used as herbal tea.

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Herbology A to Z
The flower colors range from pink to purple, and the flowering period is July through August. The pretty plant grows, naturally, along ...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
2 min read


A to Z Herbology
The plant is considered hardy and likes sun, does better in alkaline soil, but can survive in any soil.

Jody Johnson Godfrey
2 min read
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Health benefits from capsaicin [Part 2]
Of the many benefits of consuming capsaicin, few have been reverted as much as its powerful effect against cancer!

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read
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Capsicum health benefits: What's all the fuss about? [part 1 of 2]
The common ingredient in many varieties of the chili peppers is “Capsaicin,” which is responsible for the pungency or “hot” flavor along...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read
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