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Revlon Removes Toxic Ingredients From Beauty Products Following Petition By Environmental Working Group
- Environmental Well-Being
- January 14, 2015
How carefully do you look at the ingredients in the cosmetic products you buy? Would you be surprised to learn they may contain chemicals harmful to your health? Revlon recently announced that it will remove a chemical that releases formaldehyde and two long-chain parabens from its products. That decision came after more than 100,000 people signed a petition by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG).
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Message to Self: In 2015, Stop Texting While Walking
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- January 12, 2015
How often do you text while walking and find yourself oblivious to what’s going on around you? It happened to New York Times writer Nick Bilton one time too many. After literally colliding head-on into another man who was also not paying attention because he too was busy texting, Bilton decided it was time for a New Year’s resolution: Make a conscious effort to stop what research has shown has become an all too common practice for many.
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Creating a New Mission Statement
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- January 8, 2015
It’s one thing to make a New Year’s resolution. It’s another to keep it. So with the best of intentions, you may have already resolved that this is the year you lose weight, exercise more or do something that you’ve never done before. But would you stand a better chance of actually realizing your goals, if you first crafted a mission statement for yourself–akin to what a business would do?
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Fake texting, sleeping with phones: ‘Hyper-connected’ students try to get real in class
- Home & Family
- November 25, 2014
Staying connected through texting and social media has become an integral part of everyday life for many college students. But just how well would they function if their smartphones were suddenly shut off and they had to avoid all social media?
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Crest Agrees To Remove Polyethylene From Its Toothpaste; But Why Was There Plastic In There In The First Place?
- Environmental Well-Being
- November 3, 2014
Did you know that certain brands of toothpaste–like Crest 3D White and ProHealth– contain tiny specks of plastic that can get caught in your gum line? These small microbeads are made from polyethylene. That’s the same type of material that’s used in grocery bags and plastic bottles. But what is it doing in toothpaste, since it clearly doesn’t have any dental benefits–like preventing cavities or reducing plaque?
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Just a Coincidence, or a Sign
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- October 17, 2014
Think about a time in your life when something happened that made you say, “What a coincidence!” Everyone experiences them. But are coincidences just chance occurrences or could they be helpful “signs” worth paying attention to?
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How You Make Decisions Says a Lot About How Happy You Are
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- October 13, 2014
Do you tend to take your time before making a decision–analyzing the pros and cons as you check out and weigh different options. Or do you usually make decisions relatively quickly without the need to agonize over every detail? Wall Street Journal columnist Elizabeth Bernstein discusses the latest research on how our decision-making style affects our happiness.
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Better ways to learn
- Home & Family
- October 10, 2014
Do you remember cramming for a big test–possibly pulling an all-nighter. And yes, you may have passed with flying colors, and what a relief that was! But did you really learn the material–meaning did it stay with you in the long run? And did getting a better grade than one of your classmates indicate you had a better understanding of the subject matter?
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Grand Prairie Homecoming Queen Shares Her Crown
- Making a Positive Difference
- September 24, 2014
What started as a heartless prank by bullies turned into a heartwarming story demonstrating the healing difference friendship and kindness can make. After learning that 17-year-old Lillian Skinner was falsely told she'd been nominated for homecoming queen at Grand Prairie High School in North Texas, two of her good friends made a pact. Anahi Alvarez
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Not Having Luck Asking the Kids ‘So How Was School Today?’
- Home & Family
- September 15, 2014
Do you have trouble getting your children to tell you about their day at school? Just asking “how was your day” may not illicit much of a response. Mommy blogger and former teacher Liz Evans has some good suggestions on the kinds of questions that will get children to open up and share their true feelings about what they experienced.
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Family Dinners Protect Against The Effects of Cyberbullying
- Home & Family
- September 15, 2014
No parent wants their child to be the victim of cyberbullying. But could something as simple as having regular family dinners together help reduce the potential negative effects on a child’s psyche? A new study reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics found that this may very well be the case.
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The Battle Against Misdiagnosis
- Health & Healing
- September 2, 2014
How is it possible that several different doctors in the emergency room of a major New York City hospital could misdiagnose what was wrong with 12-year-old Rory Staunton? The symptoms and subsequent lab tests should have indicated the presence of a serious streptococcal bacterial infection, but that’s not what he was immediately treated for. As a result, the infection traveled into his bloodstream. Rory went into septic shock and died.
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Digital Devices Like Smartphones, TVs, And Tablets Are Destroying Children’s Face-To-Face Social Skills
- Health & Healing
- August 29, 2014
Are you concerned that your children are spending too much time using digital devices, like smartphones and tablets? Is it at the expense of quality time interacting with friends and family? You may be interested in the findings of a new UCLA Department of Psychology study about the affects of technology on children’s social skills.
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Teens Need Later Start to School Day, Doctors Group Says
- Home & Family
- August 29, 2014
Is your teenager sleep deprived during the school year, because classes start too early? The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is now weighing in on the issue of school start times for teens. The AAP believes 8:30 a.m. or later is best for middle and high school students.
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Billy Crystal’s Emotional 2014 Emmy Awards Tribute to Robin Williams
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- August 26, 2014
It is not easy to say good-bye to a treasured friend–to convey the depth of your feelings or capture the true essence of the person in words spoken to others. But that’s just what Billy Crystal did at the Emmy Awards in a touching tribute to Robin Williams, whose death continues to be felt by millions around the world.
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