Your Summer Eating Plan

Summer can be the best time for healthy eating, or it can be the worst. Some people eat very healthfully, out of their gardens or with healthful choices offered at Lakefront eateries. Others live on burgers and fries. “Summer brings its own opportunities and pitfalls to good nutrition,” says Lake Regional Registered Dietitian Jordan Fox,…

Dazzling and Merry

After celebrating your Thanksgiving traditions and before you start the New Year’s resolutions, spend the season of giving and celebrating with those you love and appreciate. Everyone, no matter what type of function they are attending, deserves to feel their best! With the help of several of our supporters, LO Profile has found people who…

Ditch the Diet

Virginia Nagy, M.D., offers 5 tips on keeping your New Year’s resolution to be healthier. Don’t Diet. “I don’t like the word ‘diet,’ ” says Virginia Nagy, M.D. “It implies something that you will do for awhile until you lose weight, and then resume your normal routine. To see lasting results,you have to make lifestyle…

Fitness is Ageless

The antidote to aging is activity. Lisa Gasior, exercise physiologist at Lake Regional Cardiopulmo- nary Rehab in Osage Beach, says no matter what the age is now, no matter how inactive a person has been, it’s still possible to increase your fitness. And while that may not lead to the fountain of youth, it at…