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.”
READ MOREHospitals 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.”
READ MOREKenny 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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Cellphones in classrooms contribute to failing grades: Study
- Headlines & Highlights, Featured
- July 30, 2018
“I was always interested in using technology in the classroom before it existed, but when it became apparent that it was affecting the classroom, it raised the question (of) what effect it was having.”
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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.”
READ MOREYour 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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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?
- Featured
- 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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