HEALTH & WELLNESS ISSUE! FLYING Doctors Harman Dhaliwal, Angela Schuck and HIGH WITH Rebecca Huisken MAYO OnE Heidi Nelson Shares Her Journey Purchase Any New F150 Truck in stock and receive the following at no cost! - Tonneau Cover for Pickup Box - Set of Molded Splash Guards - Ford All-Weather Floor Mats It’s Our Mankato Ford Tough Truck Package! MADISON AVENUE WAY 22 H When You’re Happy, We’re Happy MANKATO FORD HIG www.mankatoford.com 507.387.3454 236910 28 14 24 40 contents Publisher New Century Press { october • 2014 } Chief Operating Officer { Jim Hensley 10 General Manager Lisa Miller GO Please direct all editorial inquiries Mankato Children’s Health Center ......................................14 and suggestions to: YWCA Women’s Leadership Conference ................................22 Managing Editor Eileen Madsen Spaces.................................................................28 [email protected] A Taste of the River Valley . 34 Outpacing Jet Lag and Other Travel Wellness Tips .......................40 Sales Manager Fun, Festivals & Frolics..................................................50 Natasha Weis Treasures ..............................................................58 507-227-2545 [email protected] BE Sales Team Nomophobia ..........................................................18 Judy Beetch Health Care Q&A.......................................................20 Erin Fritz Tips for Choosing High Heels that are Better for Your Feet ...............24 Ruth Klossner Tami Leuthold Strut Your Stuff ........................................................24 Janelle Magelee Fashion-Forward Frames for Fall . 38 Deb Moldaschel Living a Balanced Life ..................................................42 Watching Weight for a Healthy Pet......................................46 Designer Holiday Weight Gain Season May Start Sooner Than You Think...........49 Amy Leuthold River Valley Woman DO New Ulm & Mankato, MN Garden Gal: Buckhorn Removal.........................................37 507.354.6158 Tidy Tightwad Tips: A Cautionary Tale of Downsizing ....................44 Readers Rave ..........................................................48 For advertising and editorial contact information and a list of newsstand Good Taste: Five Foods for Better Moods................................60 locations visit rivervalleywoman.com coNNECT River Valley Woman is published monthly and Lather, Rinse, Repeat - Editor’s Column...................................6 distributed free in the Minnesota River Valley area. 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I can only speak for myself and probably in the long run, that is culturesTo a common your toasthealth! to good luck and what we all must do. Each one of us is unique and there is no perfect solution for women as a health is “chin-chin.” This issue has made whole to maintain a healthy lifestyle. For instance, I have only a very semi-sweet tooth. So come me more aware than ever the abundance of holiday time when visions of sugar plums and other such confections dance in our heads, my healthcare opportunities and professionals head whirls in revulsion. I’m also fortunate to have skinny genes from both of my parents. So I we have in the Minnesota River Valley. can’t really take credit for much in that department. Look to the healthcare pros who share their This issue highlights only a small slice (and wisdom and experience in this issue, including our fabulous trio of cover doctors who took time only a small slice please, we are watching from their busy schedules to coordinate having their photos taken on the same day at the same our calories), of what is available and who time, which was a miracle in itself. the health and wellness professionals are. I found particularly intriguing in this issue the stories of the emergency flight nurses. What Maintaining a healthy weight seems to be at a job! I doubt they tell their significant others, when they get home from work, that it was the the forefront of most women’s health to-do “same stuff, different day.” Then again, most of us probably don’t, even if our lives are spent lists, but more often than not, we fall short mostly on the ground.