Health & Wellness

Thirty years ago, after reading “Sugar Blues” by William Duffy, I began my three-decade journey to find some way to give up sugar while still living the sweet life.

These are the best years of my life. Not every 65 year old feels that way. But I do.I wake up most mornings ready to hit the ground running. And I never get sick. But I did recently. It lasted about two hours.

Baggywrinkles is the name of an item used on sails to keep them from chaffing. But Coral Bay resident Marie Naisby saw it as an apt name for a group of older women who meet twice a week to practice yoga. 'It seemed to fit in other ways,' she said, a bit ruefully.

Joe Williamson, an entomologist at the University of the Virgin Islands, said a process that introduces the wolbachia bacteria into the male mosquito would be the most promising for the Virgin Islands.

For me, fasting has always had three major benefits: Weight control, mental clarity and rest for my digestive tract. There’s also, it turns out, a fat burning factor that happens.