Lifestyle

Dear Dr. Roach: In your recent column, you addressed a situation concerning insulin resistance, including weight gain. You mention that although there are drugs that work directly with insulin resistance, drugs in the glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist class (such as liraglutide and semaglutide) reduce risk of heart disease, promote weight loss and protect against serious complications. However, after investigating these two drugs, I found many side effects and warnings. Could you please address the warnings? -- S.T.

Dear Abby: A close friend takes care of my home when I travel several times a year. It involves picking up my mail, watering my indoor and outside plants and checking through the house for anything that might need attention in my absence. I return the favor for her each time she’s out of town. I don’t have anyone else near where I live who can do this for me.

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Interruptions are the norm rather than the exception, and yet, many can think of at least one interruption that altered their definition of normal for a length of time, perhaps for a time that has no expiration date. These “breaks” in our daily flow can either break or bend us. When we bend, our life still exists in the mainstream but has offshoots of thoughts that babble like streams. Eventually, our memories soften their coarseness as a rock under the flow of time. Yet, we become wise enough to understand that even time does not move the rock: we learn to continue around it.

Dear Abby: A close friend takes care of my home when I travel several times a year. It involves picking up my mail, watering my indoor and outside plants and checking through the house for anything that might need attention in my absence. I return the favor for her each time she’s out of town. I don’t have anyone else near where I live who can do this for me.

Dear Dr. Roach: I wonder if you could comment on the relative merits of new cholesterol measurements that were recently presented to me. I have been maintaining my total cholesterol level just below 200 (at 170) with 20 mg of pravastatin. At a recent doctor’s visit, I was advised that at my age (74), my cholesterol-lowering statin drug may provide a greater risk than benefit to my health.

The large cherry picker rumbled past me transporting four long wood electric poles. Wood utility poles are the “The Timber Product that helps Power America” according to the American Tree Farm System. Three species of trees are used: Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar and Southern Pine. A heat process forces preservatives into the poles selected for their unique strength and durability. The average life of a wood pole is 40 years, except when pitted against a whirling funnel of winds up to 135 mph (EF2 tornado). EF is Enhanced Fujita Scale.

Horses are prone to accidents, so it is important for owners to know how to recognize changes in a horse’s health and determine when veterinary care is necessary. Dr.