by Halle Pardun | Apr 7, 2021 | Healthy Minute, News
While the number of students smoking cigarettes have decreased in Burnett County, the number of students vaping and using e-cigarettes have increased. The root cause for tobacco use is cultural norm and availability. According to the WI Interactive Statistics...
by Halle Pardun | Mar 24, 2021 | Healthy Minute, News
Developmental screening is an important part in a child’s healthy development. A developmental screener is a tool that takes a closer look at how a child is developing. The tool used can be a test for a child or it can consist of a parent answering questions about...
by Halle Pardun | Mar 3, 2021 | Healthy Minute, News
Is there a link between alcohol use and dementia? It makes sense that there would be since the acute effects of alcohol primarily impact our central nervous system. More research needs to be done but the research that has been done consistently indicates that long...
by Halle Pardun | Feb 17, 2021 | Healthy Minute, News
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in March of 2020, our country has been awaiting the good news of a vaccine that can give us another tool to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that there are authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines...
by Halle Pardun | Jan 27, 2021 | Healthy Minute, News
As soon as teeth appear in the mouth, decay can occur. One of the risk factors for early childhood caries (sometimes called baby bottle tooth decay or nursing mouth syndrome) is frequent and prolonged exposure of a baby’s teeth to liquids, such as fruit juice, milk or...
by Halle Pardun | Jan 20, 2021 | Healthy Minute, News
Do you smoke or use chewing tobacco? Rarely a day goes by without a magazine, newspaper, or TV news report carrying a message about tobacco-related medical problems — the dangers of lung disease, cancer, heart problems and low-birth weight babies. Perhaps you even...
by Halle Pardun | Dec 24, 2020 | Healthy Minute, News
What’s the magic number when it comes to how much sleep you need each night? Experts say we should aim for at least seven or eight hours in order to thrive the next day. Sleep allows us to recharge our brains and bodies. However, in today’s jam-packed world of always...
by Halle Pardun | Dec 2, 2020 | Healthy Minute, News
We have been dealing with COVID-19 since March… that’s a long 8 months! Unfortunately, it does not seem to be getting better but worse. We are all starting to feel the effects of it mentally, physically and emotionally. How do we overcome this pandemic as an...
by Halle Pardun | Nov 11, 2020 | Healthy Minute, News
Tobacco. The first thing that comes to mind for a few of us are: stress relief, morning coffee, post meal, gross or bad habit. I’m not going to bore all of us with tobacco is bad and you should not use tobacco products. We all know that. We all know we shouldn’t use...
by Halle Pardun | Nov 4, 2020 | Healthy Minute, News
In Wisconsin, 65% of teens have tried alcohol at least once, and nearly 42,000 of our high schoolers tried alcohol before age 13. Many in Northwest Wisconsin believe high school drinking is just a rite of passage, but did you know that underage drinking can lead to...
