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HUNTINGTON -- A number of health-conscious support groups, classes and health screenings are scheduled in the Tri-State this week.
If your friends say "yes," chances are your knees -- and hips and hands -- may be healthier than those of people with friends who just don't understand. Or don't act like they do.
2010 Vancouver Olympics
Check out this site for more information about the athletes and sports of the Winter Games.
Nominate 2009's top citizens
Click here to view past winners and to find out how to nominate someone for the awards.
How you can help Haiti
National and local organizations are raising funds to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
MU Back to School
Whether you are an incoming freshman or a veteran at Marshall, there are a few things you should know about the upcoming weeks. Check here for more.
Marshall Plane Crash
Check here to find original stories, photo galleries, victim information and coverage of the filming of the 2006 movie "We Are Marshall."
100 Years of History
A look back at 100 years of Tri-State history through The Herald-Dispatch. Ten of the biggest stories of the last 100 years in our area, as voted on by readers, plus hundreds of photos.
Purchase a photo reprint
Our professional photographers are always out and about in the Tri-State. If you know of an image you would like to purchase, click here to fill out the form.
Bride Guide 2010
Need advice on planning your upcoming nuptials? Check out the Bride Guide, which includes a rich list of possible wedding reception sites, sorted by seating limits.
Tri-State Visitors' Guide
Check out great shopping, dining, lodging and other entertainment opportunities in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.
Tri-State's Most Wanted
The Herald-Dispatch's “Tri-State’s Most Wanted” list has featured several fugitives since June 2006, many of whom have been captured.
Send us your youth sports photos
Send a photo of your favorite Little Leaguer or cheerleader for our youth sports photo galleries.
Send us your pet photos
If they're furry, feathered or slimy, send us photos of your pets to display in our online galleries.
Birthdays and Babies
Want to announce a birth or wish a friend happy birthday? Click here to view galleries and fill out the form.
More Health Source
Think aging happens in your skin (wrinkles!), your joints (the "aargh" when you get out of a chair) and maybe your mind ("what did I come into the living room for?")? Truth is, aging happens deep within your cells, in little structures called telomeres. New research adds to evidence that you have some control over them.
Cute yoga clothes -- and cute yoga instructors -- didn't hurt in turning yoga into a hugely popular phenomenon. But the real reason everybody's doing it: It makes you look and feel young and fantastic. And it's legal, and you can do it in public. Want more reasons? Here's a short list of what it does:
St. Mary’s Regional Joint Replacement Center receives national recognition
Sharon Gouckenour had never been a patient in a hospital, but after spending three days at St. Mary’s Medical Center’s Regional Joint Replacement Center, she felt at ease with the experience.
A plan and some super-sweet, candylike clementines -- or even those giant succulent strawberries with stems -- may be the simple things that help you drop the pounds that seem to be accumulating faster than dust bunnies under the bed.
Huntington woman was one of first certified Zumba instructors in Tri-State
HUNTINGTON -- Three years ago, Connie Morabito-Akerley was only one of seven certified Zumba instructors within a 50-mile radius of Huntington. As of this month, there are 255 Zumba instructors in the Tri-State area.
When it comes to your arteries, we (and YOU) want them to be as clean as possible. So it makes sense that you're better off if an artery is 50 percent blocked than if it's 90 percent blocked, right? Oddly, not always. One strange aspect of heart disease is that sometimes the person with a worse buildup of stuff in his or her arteries is better off than someone with less of a waste dump there.
Smoking ban in county passes
The Cabell-Huntington Board of Health passed a proposal to ban smoking in bars and gambling parlors in the county at its meeting Wednesday late afternoon.
When it comes to how long your life will be, you can blame your parents. But only a little bit. If your parents got divorced when you were a kid, you have an elevated risk of dying earlier than your peers -- in fact, you're 44 percent more likely to die earlier than your expected age compared with people who had parents that stuck together (for better or worse).
HUNTINGTON -- A number of health-conscious exercise, clinics and screenings are scheduled in the Tri-State this week.
End your day feeling as sharp as when you started with these strategies:
Can't believe that that rich-tasting, satisfying, 500-calorie entree that was marked with the "healthy" symbol was only 500 calories? It might not have been.
Getting truly fit means incorporating a strength training program to your routine; but step into the weight room and many exercisers fear the worst -- bulking up like Hulk Hogan or getting seriously injured. With benefits like staving off osteoporosis, revving your metabolism and even making you look thinner, strength training is a must for any workout routine.
You know how you were going to quit smoking in the new year? Well, don't worry if that hasn't happened yet. The most effective way to quit smoking is to do it 30 days from now. Really.
HUNTINGTON -- A number of health-conscious support groups, exercise and health screenings are scheduled in the Tri-State this week.
St. Mary’s Go Red for Women Luncheon Raises Awareness About Heart Disease
Sandra Baker recently sat down to write a letter of thanks to the cardiac catheterization team at St. Mary’s Regional Heart Institute. The team assisted Dr. Mark Studney in saving Sandra’s life after a recent heart attack sent Sandra to St. Mary’s Emergency Room.
Want to be around for the next 10 or 50 years? Or even long enough to find out what happens in the final episode of "Lost"? Then hold the cheese fries. And the voodoo doughnut burger (yes, that's an actual burger served on a doughnut in a Portland, Ore., doughnut shop. NO, we're not giving you the address!). And teach your kids to lay off the doughnut served in public school breakfasts (doesn't matter that they're fortified!).
We hear you: Finding a spouse or a job is easy compared to finding the right doctor. So if a change in insurance or a desire for a different bedside manner has sent you physician shopping, use this list to make the search easier:
Whoever suggested that a "hill of beans" means that something is inconsequential wasn't looking carefully at those beans (and didn't have our recipe for our Cannellini Cilantro Hummus). These legumes are nutritional gold mines. Here's a short list of what beans offer:
HUNTINGTON -- A number of health-conscious support groups and health screenings are scheduled in the Tri-State this week.
The best way to keep your mom's mind sharp might be to send her to kindergarten. When older adults joined kindergarten through third-grade classrooms -- to help out, of course -- the kids achieved more. And the grownups had an even greater benefit; they shored up parts of their brains in ways that could protect them from Alzheimer's disease.
