Lifestyle

Q: I had COVID about 2 years ago (proven by testing at the Health Department) and ever since I recovered from the acute symptoms, I haven’t been able to smell much of anything. My husband will come down the hall to the kitchen while I’m cooking and remark how good it smells, but regardless of what I’m cooking, I can’t smell it.

As we are now into our wonderful Upper Peninsula summer season, let’s review the health benefits of maintaining proper hydration. Human dehydration is generally defined as a potentially harmful reduction in the amount of water in the body, due to either not taking in enough water and fluids, or due to an excessive loss of body water.

It’s clear that eating healthy and being active are integral parts of a healthy lifestyle. But did you know that rest and indulgence are also integral parts of a healthy lifestyle? There is a misconception that when we indulge or rest, we are being “bad” or that we need to “get back on track”, but the truth is that these things are also essential for a lifestyle to actually be healthy.

Q: Several years ago, I was given a prescription for an infection and was told that I didn’t need to finish it all if the infection improved rapidly, which it did. When cleaning out my medicine cabinet, I noticed the bottle, which expired a little over a year ago. I’ve heard that it’s not good to flush medication down the toilet, so what is the best way to dispose of it?