On Nutrition: Eat with an eye on the clock
Imagine a clock in your brain that regulates how your body uses the food you eat. Suppose this clock controls how your body burns calories. And what if this clock even manages your appetite?
Treating Dupuytren’s contracture without surgery
Dupuytren’s (DOO-puh-trenz) contracture is a disorder that can cause the fingers to curl in, primarily the ring and small fingers.
New generation of weight loss medications offer promise — but at a price
Excitement is building about a new generation of drugs that tout the ability to help adults with excess weight shed more pounds than older drugs on the market.
Q&A: You’re feeling cruddy. Is it flu? COVID? Here’s why it matters
SAN JOSE, Calif. — If you’re feeling really cruddy right now, join the crowd. Yes, you might have COVID. Yet again, this time it might be the flu — or just a really bad cold that is making the rounds.
Featured events coming up in the Lima region
Greater Allen County Blues Society Open Jam
‘Dracula’ brings Halloween thrills to Encore
LIMA — It might be just the right time for Lima’s Encore Theatre to perform “Dracula.”
Dusty Bo to play Lab with an inspiration
LIMA — This will be Dusty Bo’s second go-round in the last several months performing in Lima.
Reminisce: Lima’s quest for a war memorial
On Good Friday, April 6, 1917, the day the United States reluctantly entered World War I, Pfc. Charles J. Watson, who had enlisted in the Army at Lima in 1913, was killed in an accident at West Point, N.Y.
Bigfoot warnings dot Pennsylvania’s state parks: Who put them there?
Over the summer, posters bearing an official-looking imprimatur of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources started showing up stapled to trees in many of the state’s parks warning that a “creature resembling” Bigfoot had been spotted nearby.
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