Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola is offering a new treatment to re-open arteries in the legs that have become narrowed or blocked due to peripheral artery disease (PAD).
It starts out looking like a pancake, but it’s actually a complex colony of yeast and bacteria. And when it’s fed with organic black tea and sugar, “it transforms the resulting liquid into a refreshingly sweet and sour, lightly sparkling beverage with a fruity fragrance,” wrote Dr. Thomas L. Stone, in the American Nutrition Association’s Nutrition Digest. This beverage is known as kombucha, and because the process of creating it involves fermentation (similar to making vinegar), it can offer a delicious boost to the good bacteria in your gut.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has deleted the proposed U.S. 98 overpass from the department’s five-year work plan, citing utility costs and the impact to Gulf Power’s transmission lines near Navarre Park.
A break in Fairpoint Regional Utility System’s main waterline, which serves all south Santa Rosa County, will cost more than twice initial repair estimates of $414,000. Additionally, project delays have caused problems for other water utilities which rely on its service.
