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Chemicals in Food May Harm Children, Pediatricians’ Group Says
- Headlines & Highlights, Featured
- July 27, 2018
“The good news is there are safe and simple steps people can take right now to limit exposures, and they don’t have to break the bank.”
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Your doctor may not be the best source of nutrition advice
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- July 24, 2018
“This is what happens when you don’t teach nutrition. You cannot learn in 2 hours what it takes 20 hours to learn.”
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Social media, the scourge of adolescence
- Home & Family, Featured
- July 15, 2018
“I think it’s training our brains to be fine with being overstimulated. Like it is severely lowering our attention spans.”
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Is your child’s use of electronics an addiction or a bad habit?
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- January 16, 2018
“Thomas just wouldn’t do anything other than play on his computer and phone. I’d lock digital devices in my safe, but he would outsmart me.”
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Before losing battle with cancer, this 27-year-old woman penned a heartbreaking, eye-opening letter
- Lifestyle & Relationships, Featured
- January 8, 2018
“Tell your loved ones you love them every time you get the chance and love them with everything you have.”
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As Workouts Intensify, a Harmful Side Effect Grows More Common
- Health & Healing, Featured
- July 19, 2017
“I would never discourage exercise, ever. Spin class is great exercise. But it’s not an activity where you start off at full speed. And it’s important for the public to realize this and for trainers to realize this.”
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‘Healthy’ foods have most of us confused, survey finds
- Health & Healing, Featured
- June 12, 2017
“Dietary factors were estimated to be associated with a substantial portion of deaths from heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.”
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Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, ‘Option B,’ is a tale of grief and resilience
- Lifestyle & Relationships, Featured
- May 1, 2017
“The grief felt like a void, like it was sucking me in and pushing on me, pulling me in and I couldn’t even see or breathe. People who have been through this told me it gets better. And I didn’t really believe them. I want other people who go through things to believe it does get better.”
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Driving while distracted: Why can’t we ignore the pings?
- Lifestyle & Relationships, Featured
- August 18, 2016
Just how addictive is the sound of a ping? Has it gotten you to check a text while driving, even though you know it can increase the risk of an accident?
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Parent Acts: Why is it so hard to let our kids fail?
- Home & Family, Featured
- July 19, 2016
No parent wants their child to ever fail or fall down. But can you unwittingly hurt your child in the long run by repeatedly being too quick to intervene? As a parent, Kelly Wallace, CNN’s Digital correspondent, admits to grappling with that question. Here is some expert advice that she has found particularly helpful.
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How the ‘Dining Dead’ Got Talking Again
- Lifestyle & Relationships, Featured
- June 24, 2016
“As two people newly in love, we talked and talked,” Molly Pascal, writes in The New York Times Sunday Style Section, but in reflecting on her marriage, she shares how she and her husband had to learn how to “talk again” and in so doing “fell in love again.”
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FDA moves too slowly on food recalls, Report finds
- Consumer Alerts, Featured
- June 10, 2016
As consumers, we rely on the Food & Drug Administration to inform us about contaminated foods in the marketplace. But just how good is the FDA’s current recall system?
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Prince, opioids and the rest of us: America needs a massive public education campaign to help people hooked on Percocet and related drugs
- Health & Healing, Featured
- May 11, 2016
Have you ever been prescribed a painkiller? Did the doctor tell you that opioids like Persoset, Vicatin and Fentanyl, while effective in the short term, can become highly addictive? Did you think that it couldn’t happen to you?
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Patty Duke Died Of The Most Common Condition You’ve Never Heard Of
- Celebrity HealthStyles, Featured
- April 1, 2016
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says sepsis affects more than 1 million Americans each year–over 258,000 die from it. Yet many of us don’t even know what sepsis is, no less how to prevent it. The death this week of Academy award-winning actress, Patty Duke, put a spotlight on this all too common condition. The cause was listed as an intestinal infection that led to sepsis.
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Use our Boardroom to Be the CEO of Your Own Well-Being
- Featured
- March 31, 2016
Take charge of your well-being with a variety of boards that you can use to journal your goals, your dreams, the positive changes you want to make; collaborate & brainstorm with the people you work with, record & share favorite passages from books, keep track of family matters and reflect on what you’re grateful for in your life.
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