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Cellphones in classrooms contribute to failing grades: Study
- Headlines & Highlights
- 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
- 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
- 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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Abuse, neglect & a system that failed
- Home & Family
- July 18, 2018
“In our system, once a child is adopted, we equate it with success & there is very little followup. We actually know very little about the well-being of how kids from foster care do after being adopted.” Vivek Sankaram. U. of Michigan law professor
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Social media, the scourge of adolescence
- Home & Family
- 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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Love for a Mother Outshines All: Call Her with Gratitude
- Family & Kids, Home & Family
- May 16, 2018
The love for one’s mother is a unique dance of growth and occasional hurt feelings. Being the recipient of such thoughtfulness, such a beautiful display of daily affection in the every day and is often spurned by children who do not recognize the purity of a mother’s actions. But as we age and begin to
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Food for thought: Your diet and cancer
- Health & Healing
- March 23, 2017
“So the relationship of food to health is massive. I didn’t get it.” That’s what chef Eric Levin told CBS correspondent Martha Teichner. It took five times facing cancer before he came to what he called this “Eureka” realization.
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Are U.S. jobs vulnerable to workers with H-1B visas?
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- March 23, 2017
“We are sorry to inform you that as of Feb. 28, you will no longer have a job. We’re going to outsource your position to this company in India.” That’s what Robert Harrison, a senior telecom engineer with the University of San Francisco Medical Center, said happened to him.
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Good for You Cranberry Sauce: No White Sugar Added
- Health & Healing
- November 23, 2016
An easy Good for You cranberry sauce, no white sugar added! It’s healthy and tasty too!
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9/11’s Second wave: Cancer and other diseases linked to the 2001 attacks are surging
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- September 16, 2016
“Today, 15 years after the attacks, doctors are starting to understand why people are still dying. When the towers came down, they say, they released a massive plume of carcinogens, turning lower Manhattan into a cesspool of cancer and deadly disease.”
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