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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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Send a Good For You Message
- Featured
- March 29, 2016
Share something good with the people who matter in your life! Express thanks and gratitude or congratulate someone for a job well done. Try our Good for You Messages today!
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America’s Electric Grid is Vulnerable
- Featured, Front-page slider
- March 24, 2016
Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated from a solar storm or man-made high altitute EMP attack can take down our grid.

The threat is real, and the time for action is now!
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Tell Congress to Shield the Grid Now: All of our lives depend on it.
- Causes, Environmental Well-Being, Featured
- March 24, 2016
There are certain things in life we take for granted. Flip a switch, the lights go on; our refrigerators and other appliances work and our tech devices get charged. But what if the electricity went out, not just for a day or two or a period of weeks, but months or even years? How many
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The Skills That Make Kids More Likely to Grow Up to Be Successful
- Featured, Home & Family
- July 22, 2015
What can you do now to ensure that your children will one day succeed as adults? Could it be as simple as teaching them to be kind, cooperative and helpful to others?
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Meet the Alzheimer’s Patient Who Helped Julianne Moore Get Nominated for an Oscar
- Entertainment, Books & Humor, Featured
- July 15, 2015
In the movie “Still Alice”, Golden Globe best actress winner Julianne Moore plays a woman battling early onset Alzheimer’s. Her character, Alice Howland, says: “Please do not think I am suffering. I am not suffering. I am struggling, struggling to be a part of things, to stay connected to who I once was.”
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McDonald’s to ban chicken treated with human antibiotics
- Environmental Well-Being, Featured
- July 15, 2015
For years, we’ve heard health experts and consumers alike express their concern that the consumption of beef, pork and chicken treated with antibiotics could lead to antibiotic-resistant infections in humans. McDonald’s has now taken a step to address those concerns. The company announced that over the next 2 years it will stop purchasing chicken that has been fed antibiotics also prescribed for humans.
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AAA: Distracted driving a huge factor in teen driver crashes
- Home & Family, Featured
- July 15, 2015
Texting while driving is downright dangerous. But that doesn’t stop countless adults and teens alike from doing it. Parents may want to keep this in mind the next time they’re tempted to reach for their phone while behind the wheel. Your children may very well follow your example with potentially deadly consequences.
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Healthful eating is smart way to sustain brain power, study finds
- Health & Healing, Featured
- July 14, 2015
Do you want to keep your brain functioning well and reduce your chance of cognitive decline as you get older? It’s smart to eat healthy. That’s the finding of a new study in the journal Neurology.
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