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Today’s elderly at greater risk of dementia, delirium from being prescribed too many unnecessary drugs
- Featured, Health & Healing
- March 16, 2022
“Taking six medications or more contributes to challenges with adherence, since more complicated medication regimens require more time and attention, and increase the potential for making mistakes and inadvertent misuse.”
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Americans Are Addicted to ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods, and It’s Killing Us
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 6, 2022
“Our food, in other words, is literally killing us. Food companies have tricked our brains into making us complicit, and our elected officials are complicit, too. What’s needed is a better understanding of exactly how processed foods make us sick and a public reckoning with Big Food’s role in the nation’s health crisis.”
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The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly Line
- Health & Healing, Featured
- January 6, 2022
“Kathleen Blake, AMA’s vice president of healthcare quality, earlier this year cited studies showing that hospital acquisitions of private practices- which doubled from 2012 to 2018- have lead to ‘modestly worse patient experiences and no significant change in readmission or mortality rates.’ Flawed electronic health record systems in hospitals have resulted in deathly medical errors
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What Every Parent Should Know Before Introducing Their Young Child to Technology
- Featured, Home & Family
- April 21, 2021
You might want to think twice before handing your toddler your smartphone. Check out our Good for You Conversation with Dr. Gail Saltz on what you need to know about children, technology and how it impacts their development.
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Pick Up the Pace: Walking More Quickly May Improve Your Health
- Health & Healing, Featured
- October 16, 2019
“Since childhood brain health already at the age of 3 years was associated with walking speed at midlife, it looks like the early life function of the brain could affect the long-term function of the body and thus the walking speed.”
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Stress can make you sick. Take steps to reduce it.
- Featured
- October 16, 2019
“One of the reasons I wrote this book was to give stress the air time that it deserves. The public needs to be more aware of how prevalent and damaging it is, and doctors need to be aware of some simple things to help people.” That’s what Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, author of “The Stress Solution,” told the New York Times.
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A lost girl’s diary: The hidden anguish of Alexandra Valoras
- Home & Family, Featured
- May 16, 2019
Beyond imagining, beyond understanding. How a 17-year-old high school honor student shocked her parents, friends and teachers by committing suicide. Alexandra Valoras wrote in her journal: “I’m not good enough, I’m worthless.”
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Weed-killing chemical linked to cancer found in some children’s breakfast foods
- Headlines & Highlights, Featured
- August 15, 2018
“I was shocked. We don’t know a lot about the effect of glyphosate on children. And essentially we’re just throwing it at them.”
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Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.
- Home & Family, Featured
- July 30, 2018
“What we know about those deaths is that most of them were absolutely preventable. They were from causes that we could have done something about. We could have prevented it if we had recognized the emergency early on.”
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Kenny Chesney didn’t know if his friends would live; amid hurricane uncertainty, he began ‘Songs for the Saints’
- Headlines & Highlights, Featured
- July 30, 2018
“When you think about all the people it could help & how it could help change their psyche & give healing (‘Songs for the Saints’) is probably the most important record I ever made. I hope they get as much healing out of listening to it as I did from making it.”
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Your doctor may not be the best source of nutrition advice
- Featured
- 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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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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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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