Health and Fitness
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Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism riskJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - CHICAGO — Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. ...
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Local fitness pro creates workout DVDJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - • Geneva resident Leslie Grosshauser, a fitness professional for more than 25 years, has created a new workout DVD called “The SWAT Team Workout” with four members of th...
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Taking more medications not the answerJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Last week, I read an interesting article about health care. The author believed the problems with health care, including rising costs and the increased incidence of many...
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Sarcoidosis affects organs in unseen waysJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Q. My wife was diagnosed with multi-organ sarcoidosis. It has caused a third-degree heart block. It has been identified in her lungs, brain, liver, lymph nodes and h...
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Germs flying high on planesJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - On the first leg of this season's holiday travel tour, I had the delightful experience of watching my 20-month-old touch nearly every surface on our airplane, from myria...
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Trainer talk: Get a fresh start with organic foodsJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - The new year is here, and for many people, it brings with it a new attitude toward diet and exercise. If you are wondering which approach to take in 2011, don't forget o...
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Your health: How to make life changesJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - Roll with the changes Breaking old habits and creating new ones doesn't happen overnight. While it takes time, energy and commitment, you can enjoy some benefits fa...
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Gov't says too much flouride in waterJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - ATLANTA — Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes ...
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Blue Cross reverses mental health preapprovalsJan 05, 2011 10:00 pm - An Illinois health insurer is reversing its plan to require patients to get preapproval before they see mental health providers. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois' ...
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Exercising can mean staying fit at 50 and beyondJan 04, 2011 10:00 pm - At 45, DeEtte Sauer was a dead woman walking. She was morbidly obese, her heart disease so serious a doctor warned her to expect “an event at any time.” Eaten up by her ...