I read a lot of reports and listen to a lot of information to write these posts. That means I subscribe to a lot of different newsletters...

Many people today are obsessed with reading the labels on the foods they purchase. It's a good thing, too. Some of the junk that passes...

Now more than ever in the past few years, people are thinking about their food sources, supply and demand, and the overall cost of the...

Believe it or not, high school sports are just around the corner. Here in Minnesota, football practice begins on Monday, August 15 with...

When I was in college I wrote a poem titled "Makeup Blues." If memory serves me, it went something like this: Makeup blues and reds and...

Swimming is often synonymous with summer, especially in northern states like Minnesota where we live. Lakes and pools are nearly in...

As much as we may wish for the COVID pandemic to be over, two newer Omicron variants—BA.4 and BA.5—are fueling a surge of new and repeat...

It's mid-summer and with the warmer temperatures, many of us look for ways to beat the heat. Read on for our top suggestions of how to...

Being prepared . . . Although we can never be 100% prepared for natural disasters, we can equip ourselves to be more prepared for the...

I just read an article that should have scared me silly. It was titled, "Superbugs could trigger health crisis worse than Covid, experts...

Just when you thought it was safe to book that adventure to the jungle--monkeypox rears its head. According to the Centers for Disease...

When it comes to cleaning, few of us can claim to be experts. Honestly, I would assume that most of us probably don't even want to be...

Yep, the cartoonist who inked this strip sure had that right! Mosquitoes suck! Mosquitoes and other insects can make your summertime...

About three weeks ago, the city of Clarissa in the state of Minnesota was rocked when an EF1 tornado tore up the town. That was on...

Nearly every week we talk about what Vital Oxide can do. What we don't talk about is what Vital Oxide cannot do. Vital Oxide cannot do...

Many of us are familiar with the classic movie, "The Wizard of Oz." The story is one of coming to the realization that we already have...

Vital Oxide kills the adenovirus that may be leading to an outbreak of hepatitis in kids! Adenovirus 41. As of May 6, 2022, at least 24...

This is a hard post for me to write. You see, this will be the first Mother's Day that I will spend without my mother. Since she passed...

If you are a CPAP user (Constant Positive Air Pressure) you might appreciate this article. My story . . . I was diagnosed with...

As we talked about in last week's blog, wound care is something we don't think about often... until we REALLY need it! Recently, Lastgerm...