Fun & Healthy Summertime Snack

Hot summer months can leave you craving a cool refreshing treat. Instead of grabbing a high-calorie ice-cream bar, try a healthy frozen fruit pop.

Place berries, such as blueberries, raspberries and chopped strawberries, in a small cup. Add cranberry or pineapple juice to fill about 2/3 of the cup. Add a wooden popsicle stick and freeze. After freezing, run warm water over the cup to release the fruit pop and enjoy!

Hot Enough for You?

Extreme heat is when summertime temperatures are substantially hotter and/or more humid than the average at that time of year.

Ways to protect yourself from the heat include: Drink plenty of fluids, replace salt and minerals, wear light-weight and loose-fitting clothing, wear sunscreen, and limit outdoor activity to mornings and evenings. When you work or play in extreme heat, use the buddy system and keep an eye on each other. Stay cool as much as you can. And above all, NEVER LEAVE CHILDREN OR PETS IN CARS!

How to Remove a Tick

Summer is here and everyone is heading out to the great outdoors! But, one negative is the ticks that will soon be showing their heads. Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a try.

This is great, because it works in those places where it's some times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.

Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away. This technique is much less traumatic for the patient and easier for the person trying to remove the tick.

Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. It works because insects breathe through their skin. The soap suffocates them.