Health and Fitness
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Massachusetts advocate: Let young people market baby safe havensAug 17, 2016 5:30 am - Ask teenagers if they know what a baby safe haven is and their response likely will be "No." A Massachusetts group says while safe haven laws across the country are well...
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Advocates to troubled parents: Please drop off babies at safe havensAug 17, 2016 5:30 am - Child advocates are urging parents considering abandoning their newborns to instead bring them to one of many baby safe havens across the state - no questions asked. The...
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International Chicago 5K race draws legendary runnersAug 16, 2016 1:00 am - Four legendary runners - Steve Jones, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Constantina Dita and Deena Kastor - will return to Chicago take part in inaugural International Chicago 5K o...
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American Academy of Pediatrics gets $800,000 federal grantAug 16, 2016 1:00 am - Elk Grove Village-based American Academy of Pediatrics has received $805,000 in federal funding to help improve awareness and access to care for children with epilepsy i...
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Do sports drinks fuel or fool young athletes?
Aug 15, 2016 5:30 am - As temperatures heat up and Olympic coverage continues, sports-drink marketing is at a fever pitch. Coca-Cola, owner of Powerade and Vitaminwater, is the longest contin...
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Naperville student offers healthy lessons for phone-toting teensAug 15, 2016 1:00 am - Cooking for herself on and off since she was 5, 16-year-old Mariel Thompson of Naperville has learned healthy eating lessons the hands-on way. Fries are fantastic, but ...
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You can't protect your kids from stress, but here are ways to teach them to cope
Aug 14, 2016 7:30 am - A young girl sits in my office, describing the "swishy" feeling that she gets in her stomach when she's at school. It tends to happen at drop-off, just after lunch and ...
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Soothe back-to-school jitters with these new books
Aug 14, 2016 7:00 am - August brings the start of school and if you have a preschooler or a kindergartner, you might be feeling anxious. Your kiddos, however, might be even more worried; they...
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My son with autism: Oh the places you, too, will go
Aug 13, 2016 1:00 pm - My son, TJ, is 16 and has autism. When he was little, my husband and I were in a fog of new terms, new therapies, new people - new everything. And we wanted to try every...
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Back-to-school 101 for kids with allergies and asthmaAug 13, 2016 1:00 pm - There are lots of things kids get excited about when they go back to school. From brand new lunchboxes loaded with pudding cups, to shiny 64-packs of crayons and catchin...