As summer reaches peak heat, and most of us retreat indoors until the first glimmers of cooler weather, it’s a great time to take stock of our overall health and healthcare regimes.
Each August we feature our Top Doctors list, with professionals across the area who are leading the way in innovative health care. Our cover feature focuses on the work of Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, an OB-GYN who is bringing much needed attention to women’s health issues both here at home and with her work destigmatizing fibroid care. Gillispie-Bell’s story is an inspiring tale of tenacity, hard work and dedication to both her profession, and for the thousands of women who are in need of vital care at a time when there is a growing shortage of OB-GYN professionals. We are excited to feature her on our cover this month and to highlight the work she is doing to promote care.
Another current challenge is the impact of social media health trends, most especially on our youth, as they navigate the truths and misinformation found on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. In our feature “Safety Dance,” we give parents and guardians some tools and strategies for guiding tweens and teens through their most impressionable years.
Registered dietician, journalist and Eat Fit pioneer Molly Kimball gives us the inside scoop on some of the most popular diet myths out there right now. From breakfast to snack time, happy hour and beyond, Molly breaks down fact from fiction and gives us the real, science-backed information to make the best choices.
As usual, we also have ideas of places to go and things to do, ways to escape the heat, cool summer recipes to try and how to stay stylish through it all.
Summer may be technically ending for many, as school convenes for another year and vacation time is over, but we all know that the real heat of the season has settled in and will probably hang on for a while longer.
Don’t let the dog days get you down, though. Kick back, grab a cold drink or treat yourself to a snoball. We will get through it! Fall is right around the corner.
Stay cool!
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