TO YOUR HEALTH SCREENINGS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services If your legs hurt when you walk or get numb or tingle, you could have Peripheral Vascular Disease Peripheral Vascular Disease Definition Peripheral vascular disease is a narrowing of blood vessels that restricts blood flow. It mostly occurs in the legs, but is sometimes seen in the arms. (PVD PVD abbr. peripheral vascular disease PVD Peripheral vascular disease, see there ). To find out, visit Glendale Adventist Medical Center Glendale Adventist Medical Center is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. It was founded in 1905. Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a sister institution of Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital system. on Sept. 17 during its Legs for Life PVD screening event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PVD affects nearly 8 million people in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Those with the disease are at greater risk for heart attack, stroke and loss of limbs. Sunday's event, designed to raise awareness of PVD, will be at the medical center building at 1500 Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (chĕv`ē), town (1990 pop. 8,559), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; founded as a village, inc. 1914. Drive in Glendale. For more information, or to register, call (818) 409-8100. Self-help books ``Unconditional Bliss: Finding Happiness in the Face of Hardship,'' by Howard Raphael Cushnir (Quest paperback; $15.95). ``You can live in bliss even if you're alone, sick, failed and broke,'' writes Cushnir, whose definition of bliss clearly differs from most. Yet his view is interesting: Accepting life's unhappy events - not embracing them, not pretending they are neutral but simply acknowledging them - confers a certain peace or power. He says that asking just two questions about whatever troubles you can point the way to this kind of bliss. ``The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul,'' by Hugh Prather (Conari paperback; $14.95). A kind of bliss is Prather's goal too. ``We literally see what we believe, but we can - and most of us do - fail to take responsibility for what we see, especially what we see within,'' he writes. Blessed with a preacher's loquaciousness lo·qua·cious adj. Very talkative; garrulous. [From Latin loqu  x, loqu , he tacks 23 examples to as many sermons about how to let go of worry, fear of happiness, even money worries and travel anxiety.
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