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Good News for Chocolate Easter Bunnies and Their Fans
Easter eggs and other chocolate can be good for you, as long as you eat only small amounts, latest research suggests.
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New Website for Alzheimer’s/Dementia Family Care-givers Is Unique and from a Trusted Source
Anyone who has ever watched a family care-giver struggle to adapt to the inevitable decline of someone they love can only guess at the physical, emotional and psychological costs to patient and care-giver.
A new website, the creation of a professional who also was a family care-giver, should be invaluable to Alzheimer’s/dementia family care-givers.
The website was [...]
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Higher Educational Levels = Best Health Status
This wire service story says that President Obama will sign on Tuesday a bill, the goal of which is to enable more students to be able to afford college and be able to pay back student loans.
The benefit to the nation is that, he says, American will again have the highest college graduation rates in [...]
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Hard to Imagine…A Wow School Lunch Is Possible
This is another one of those bills which got done while no one had time to notice, given the health care reform debates.
Just passed—the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which will provide amazing school lunches in Berkeley, California.
The moving force behind this is the noted chef Alice Waters. For an Alice Waters lunch, adults [...]
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Chronically Ill People Can Open Up New World for Themselves Online
This story provides a listing of five major patient networking sites which patients living with chronic illnesses can find support and information.
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the California Healthcare Foundation, chronic disease patients can find resources that are more useful to them than other searchers. As soon as they get [...]
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Grieving Relatives Get Benefits from Eight Weeks of Massage, Nursing Study Says
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“Receiving soothing massages for eight weeks after the death of a loved one can provide much-needed consolation during an intense, stressful period of grieving, according to a study in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.”
“The relatives’ comments could be divided into four key themes:
A helping hand [...]
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Tips on How To Search for a Nursing Home
START WITH THE DATA Every year the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services collect data on more than 15,000 nursing homes throughout the country. Health inspection data, staffing and quality measures are combined to come up with an overall ranking of one to five stars. To look up nursing homes in [...]
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When Baby Girls Are Not in Fashion, Then What?
This report reminds us all that children are a source of labor in countries such as India and China. Girls can be seen as an expense with the investment returns going to the families into which they marry.
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Being Happy May Be Good for Your Physical Heart, Study Says
This study examines the role of emotions in protecting or provoking heart disease in individuals. This study should prompt more work.
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“The Chemistry Between Them…”
Some times in diagnosis the answer is hidden in plain sight.
In the 1980s, before brain science became “hot,” Jon Franklin, one of the great science writers of his generation, told me, “One day we will learn that we are all a bunch of chemicals. You are three red, four blue and five yellow. I will [...]
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