Health and Fitness
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It's a balancing act for slacklinersJan 30, 2012 5:00 am - On any given Sunday, Slackline Pittsburgh members can be seen suspended in the air between sycamore trees. They walk the line, toeing their way across loosely strung 1-i...
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When in doubt, throw out old medicinesJan 30, 2012 5:00 am - Most of the medications in my husband's bathroom cabinet are outdated. There's the chloroquine, filled June 2008, expired June 2009; the prescription-strength naproxen, ...
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Hey, did you hear gossip can be a good thing?Jan 30, 2012 5:00 am - If you don't have something nice to say ... well, go ahead and say it anyway. You may actually be doing something good for your health as well as humanity. University of...
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Too busy to be healthy? Get organized!Jan 30, 2012 4:00 am - Q. I know how to eat healthily. But as with other things in my life, getting organized enough to eat that way every day has been a challenge. Do you have any tips? ...
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Kirk’s stroke shows they can hit the young, tooJan 29, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — When a stroke hits at 52, like what happened to Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, the reaction is an astonished, “But he’s so young.” The reality is that strokes ...
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Schaumburg man doesn't let his loss of speech crush his spiritJan 29, 2012 6:30 am - The sight of me standing outside his front door in Schaumburg sends Steve Riedner into one of his belly-shaking, blue eyes-a-twinkling chuckles. He points to the jaunty,...
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School lunches to have more veggies, whole grainsJan 29, 2012 5:22 am - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings — including the always popular pizza — will come with l...
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Former NFL players help raise concussion awarenessJan 26, 2012 11:00 pm - Efforts to raise awareness about concussion dangers are getting an boost from a collection of former National Football League players. The five-month old Chicago Concuss...
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Edward Hospital sees big jump in online test after Kirk's strokeJan 26, 2012 10:00 pm - Within days of U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk's stroke, Edward Hospital in Naperville said Internet traffic to its stroke awareness test jumped by hundreds. “We know around the wat...
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Oral cancer virus HPV affects 7 percent of AmericansJan 25, 2012 11:00 pm - About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first...