Health and Fitness
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Outdoor fitness area to overlook Schaumburg lakeJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - The Schaumburg Park District hopes to help residents not miss the great outdoors this year by working out only in gyms and fitness centers. The district is preparing to ...
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Constable: Push to keep 'special' in these OlympicsJan 18, 2015 6:30 am - Among all the questions that popped into the heads of new parents Chris and Mindy Stanton 15 years ago when they learned their newborn daughter Abby had Down syndrome wa...
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New tax forms to fill out on health insurance coverageJan 18, 2015 6:28 am - WASHINGTON - Be prepared for the tax man to get even more personal this year - with questions about your health insurance. For the first time, you'll have to state wheth...
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Patients turn to shots of sugar to ease joint and muscle painJan 18, 2015 6:00 am - Imagine this: At your next doctor's appointment, instead of advising you to avoid sugar, your physician proposes treating you with sugar. That scenario may not be too sw...
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Medicare pays doctors to coordinate seniors' chronic careJan 18, 2015 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Starting this month, Medicare will pay primary care doctors a monthly fee to better coordinate care for the most vulnerable seniors - those with multip...
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Shark stores sperm for 4 years before having a pup, a recordJan 18, 2015 6:00 am - A brown-banded bamboo shark seems to have fertilized her eggs with sperm she held onto for 45 months, according to researchers at the California Academy of Sciences. Tha...
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Be careful of arsenic levels in riceJan 17, 2015 6:00 am - What do you think is the common ingredient in both conventional and organic rice and rice-based food? It is arsenic. Arsenic is toxic and it is found in high concentrati...
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Obese preschoolers may slim down with Head Start, study saysJan 17, 2015 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) — Head Start programs have been shown to help poor children do better in school, but they may also help them fight obesity, a study suggests. During a year ...
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App check: Relaxation is just a few breaths awayJan 17, 2015 6:00 am - One of my proud parent moments occurred a decade ago, when my older daughter, who had learned a breathing technique to help her calm down, taught it to her fifth-grade c...
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Palatine anti-abortion march marks Roe v. Wade anniversaryJan 17, 2015 12:01 am - NorthWest Families for Life's third annual March for Life from St. Theresa Parish in Palatine Saturday was among several Archdiocese of Chicago events protesting the 42n...