Health and Fitness
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Protecting Our Children Conference to unite community professionalsJan 02, 2020 10:00 pm - Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, in partnership with the Kane County Health Department and the All Our Kids Early Childhood Network, is hosting a conference to foc...
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Give a pint, get a free Firehouse subs sandwich in JanuaryJan 02, 2020 10:00 pm - Firehouse Subs restaurants across Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana are partnering with Vitalant (formerly LifeSource) by offering a free sandwich voucher to persons who...
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Kane County Health Department invites you to join new year health challengesDec 30, 2019 10:00 pm - Make a healthy start for 2020! The Kane County Health Department recently announced two challenges designed to help residents become healthier in the new year. Kane Hea...
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Children can make their own resolutions. Keep them simple and funDec 29, 2019 6:00 am - The new year signals a time when most of us pause and consider ways to improve ourselves with lofty intentions for the coming year. This year, we enter a fresh decade wh...
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Don't wait until you're older to get your health in orderDec 29, 2019 6:00 am - Heart attack and stroke risks may loom larger when you're older, but getting your cholesterol under control when you're younger could be critically important to your lon...
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Realistic resolutions for a healthier 2020Dec 29, 2019 5:00 am - Do you make New Year's resolutions? Forty-five percent of us do, and more often than not, they're health related. However, research tells us that only 8% of us will actu...
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Evidence mounts that vitamin E acetate is to blame for vaping-related deathsDec 28, 2019 6:00 am - Evidence is mounting that vitamin E acetate is the culprit in the outbreak of vaping-related illnesses that has sickened more than 2,500 people and killed at least 54, f...
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Special flu shot for older people has more antigenDec 28, 2019 5:00 am - Q: Our 76-year-old mom is nervous about getting the special Fluzone shot for older people because a neighbor told her it will make her sick. Is that true? What makes flu...
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What if you knew a cookie would take 20 minutes to run off?Dec 28, 2019 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Would you put down that bag of chips if you saw it had 170 calories? What if the label said it would take 16 minutes of running to burn off those calories? He...
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New Year's is a time for not only resolutions, but reflectionsDec 28, 2019 5:00 am - We are on the verge of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Time for the famous, or infamous, New Year's resolutions. My dear husband Baheej believed in formalizing these ...