Health and Fitness
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Fittest Loser follow-up: How are the participants now?Dec 01, 2014 4:45 am - Once you've spent a dozen or so Saturday morning boot camps with someone, you get to know them, like them and get used to rooting for them. That's what happened when the...
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How to applyDec 01, 2014 4:45 am - Are you ready for a change? Is 2015 the year to turn your good intentions into reality? The Daily Herald and Push Fitness are teaming up to offer you a shot at making it...
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Bakery serves up success stories for adults with autismDec 01, 2014 4:45 am - Autism organization Have Dreams and ILOVESWEETS Bakery have created a recipe for success with a new workplace training program that helps give young adults with autism a...
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Prep football alters brains even without concussionsDec 01, 2014 12:01 am - A single high-school football season of heavy hits, even without a concussion, led to observable brain abnormalities in a study, the latest evidence to raise questions a...
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Donate blood in MundeleinDec 01, 2014 12:01 am - Mundelein firefighters will host a blood drive Saturday, Dec. 6. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the main fire station, 1000 N. Midlothian Road. Walk-in dona...
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E-cigarettes reduce tobacco cravings and help people quit smoking, study findsNov 30, 2014 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Vaping is having a moment. The Oxford Dictionaries recently named the term, which means “to inhale and exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette ...
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Donating your body to science: Shocking or inspiring?Nov 30, 2014 6:01 am - As a psychiatrist, I don't often deal directly with death. For the past five years, though, I have been treating men and women returning from deployments in Afghanistan ...
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Are we on the verge of a polio-free Africa?Nov 30, 2014 6:01 am - WASHINGTON - With all of the news about Ebola's rapid, dispiriting spread through West Africa, you may have missed an encouraging public health development: The continen...
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Exercise in a bottle is next food frontier for NestleNov 30, 2014 6:00 am - Tucked away near Lake Geneva, a handful of Nestle SA scientists are quietly working on realizing every couch potato's dream: exercise that comes in a bottle. The world's...
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The world is too fat and it's costing us $2 trillion a yearNov 30, 2014 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — We're fat — and we're getting fatter. One estimate from earlier this year found that almost one-third of the world was now obese (that's more than 2 billion...