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A Healthier You: The Science of Magnesium and its role in Aging and Disease

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Magnesium is a mineral that’s essential for human health, playing a crucial role in more than 300 enzymatic reactions in your body. Magnesium is necessary for muscle and nerve function, blood glucose control and protein synthesis. It also supports a healthy immune system, keeps your heartbeat steady and plays a role in bone health. Unfortunately,…

When was the last time you received a “thank you” note?

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My mother would make a point to send out thank-you letters to people on a regular basis and taught her children to do the same. My wife is fantastic at thank-you notes, but it seems to have become outdated for most folks. I would love to highlight my mother and wife’s lessons of gratitude and…

Civics courses educated students on our government

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[Looking at history and our area’s unique political and religious attitudes.] Civics was in the day. Until recent years, the education process included Civics as a required course on entering high school. As youngsters were getting older, it was assumed they needed to know how to live and function within the society and within the…

This is August and it is supposed to be hot in Oklahoma

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I used to hate the summer heat. For the first 30 years of my professional life, I wore a coat and tie to work. In the late 1970s, former President Jimmy Carter tried to get professional men to dress less formally to save money on energy. (He also mandated a 55-mph speed limit and neither…

Silence never wins, engage to win society back

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[Looking at history and our area’s unique political and religious attitudes.] Silence never wins. Both sides of the political spectrum argue that society is in turmoil and more divided than ever. History bears out that turmoil is inevitable when the differences have a philosophical root. Let’s go back to the most ancient history commonly available….

Defining ourselves: What does it mean to be ‘Uniquely’ different?

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What makes you unique? How can I find my identity and get rid of the baggage we are carrying around to become the beautiful masterpiece God created. When we were children, we were around all kinds of people and places that prepared us with a wealth of knowledge, helping us to know what we did…

This is what I did to lose about 40 pounds in 5 months

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I’ve lost about 40 pounds since March 1. Hurray! This is the most weight I have ever lost in one season. When I was 21, I lost 35 pounds at my summer job, which was delivering furniture for Manhattan Furniture. I wasn’t trying to lose weight that summer but it happened. About 10 years or…

It’s a challenge trying to be a long-distance Grandpa

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I never met one set of my grandparents, my mother’s parents, the late Amos Whitten Rogers and Elizabeth Mae Rogers of West Virginia. Believe it or not, they were both born in 1875 – 144 years ago! They had 11 children, who were born from 1895 through 1917. My mother was born in 1911. She…

Legislating from the bench

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Judges are often accused of legislating from the bench and a recent decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court is one reason why. The court majority declared, in essence, that we have fallen through the looking glass like Alice in Wonderland and up is now down – depending on what outcome is favored by justices. In…

Throughout history there are no atheists in foxholes

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[Looking at history and our area’s unique political and religious attitudes.] There are no atheists in foxholes. This well-known aphorism came from a sergeant sharing a foxhole with US Army Lieutenant Colonel Warren J. Clear during World War II fighting in the Pacific. The statement appeared in an Associated Press story dated April 11, 1942,…