HEALTH & FITNESS

Tips For Healthy Living In Syracuse And Central New York

• Babies are eating too many bad snacks
Often when I am walking in parks, I find droppings of animal crackers, cookies or goldfish peppering the trail.

• Healthy CNY magazine spotlights caregivers
Caregivers take the spotlight in the December issue of Healthy Central New York magazine, which you'll find as a supplement Wednesday in The Post-Standard.

• Miracle of the maggots
It's easy to say you'd never, ever allow maggots to clean a wound on your foot. But what if the alternative were amputation? Could you get over your squeamishness for the chance to walk again?

• Get a flu shot and protect your herd
Everywhere we turn at this time of year, through the media, in pharmacies and doctors' offices, we see ads or signs or read articles advising us to get a flu shot.

• Upstate offers holiday seminar for caregivers
It's tough enough being a caregiver throughout the year. Add the obligations and festivities of the holiday season, and even the most stalwart of caregivers may be pushed to the brink.

• 85 pounds came off with Atkins diet
Aug. 1, 1999, started like most other days in my life. I got up, ate a hearty breakfast and lunch. That afternoon, I went to a birthday party for our neighbors' 1-year-old daughter, Natasha.

• 9 foods to boost your immunity
We depend on our immune systems especially this time of year to fight off cold and flu germs.