Articles by Peggy Gannon: | Frugal Fiscal Planning: How to Survive the Coming Recession(NewsTarget) It’s the dreaded "R" word, and all economic indicators point that way. Borrowing for the war continues. The housing sector is still in free-fall. Financial markets are jittery. Unemployment took the biggest upswing since 9/11. Gas and heating...
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 | Breast Cancer: A Preventable Disease Through Good Nutrition(NewsTarget) Cancer. It feels like a modern version of the plague. The word strikes fear in us. We all know someone who has it, or had it, or is in remission from it. The recent Breast Cancer Awareness month was dedicated to the importance of early detection....
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 | British Medical Journal Dispels Popular Medical Myths(NewsTarget) “We only use ten percent of our brains.” We all grew up hearing that, and many of us still take it for granted. Didn’t you ever wonder why we have so much unused gray matter upstairs? In fact, that popular belief (current as early as 1907)...
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 | Dehydrated, Hydrated, Waterlogged: How Much Water is Too Much?(NewsTarget) Do you remember when you first heard the term, “personal hydration”? Me neither and it wasn’t a concept I grew up with. Only in recent years has the need for adequate water intake been recognized. Controversy swirls around bottled water:...
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About the authorPeggy Gannon lives on a 50-acre farm, where she is owned by three parrots and a few cats. She taught at Unity College in Maine for 18 years, and has in the same lifetime been a small farmer, public relations director, commercial horticulturist, and mental health professional. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of literary and other small magazines. She has pursued a lifelong interest in health and nutrition and is a vocal advocate of local and organic foods. When not writing, she keeps busy gardening, traveling to exotic and arcane locales, and periodically emptying the bag on the vacuum in deep space.
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