Health and Fitness
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Community teams reach pivotal point in their journeyMar 31, 2014 5:30 am - OK, let's just say that Week 6 marks a pivotal point for many of the corporate and community partners participating in the Fittest Loser Community Challenge. While they...
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Emotional eating affects the scaleMar 31, 2014 5:30 am - This has been a week of resisting temptation. It's a battle I thought I was winning until the scale tipped two pounds higher than last week. Good grief. It was my sons'...
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Your health: Experts say allergy season will be badMar 31, 2014 5:30 am - Experts say allergy season will be bad It's that time of year again - allergy season, which is striking about two weeks earlier than usual and packing a stronger-t...
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Fittest Loser Tip of the Week: Don't sit. Just DipMar 31, 2014 5:30 am - Assurance has been a longtime proponent of corporate wellness programs, as it has empowered our employee base and provided them with both short and long-term benefit...
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Arlington Heights moms raise money, awareness for rare kids' diseaseMar 31, 2014 5:15 am - When Jenn Licato's daughter and Kristin Meek's son were diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, the Arlington Heights mothers had the same reaction: What is that? Neurofibroma...
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Lovell director to retire:Mar 31, 2014 1:01 am - The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center's director, Patrick Sullivan, is retiring Wednesday, April 2. Before serving as the facility's first director, Sul...
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Surgery gives long-term help for obese diabeticsMar 31, 2014 1:01 am - New research is boosting hopes that weight-loss surgery can put some patients' diabetes into remission for years and perhaps in some cases, for good. Doctors on Monday g...
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Illinoisans encounter problems with health insurance signupMar 31, 2014 1:01 am - People who waited until the last day to sign up for health insurance poured into hospital lobbies and enrollment areas Monday, with some encountering the same kind of co...
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Shared Care site helps patients at Elgin hospitalMar 30, 2014 11:00 pm - Heart patient William Spence says that among all the difficult things he's had to endure in the last couple years, one of the bright spots has been being able to get car...
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Community helping Schaumburg parents of boy with severe disabilitiesMar 30, 2014 8:00 am - Seeing the ultrasound image of a spine twisted around a tiny, horribly deformed 15-week-old fetus, Jeff and Stacy Fulkerson of Schaumburg knew their first son, Jackson, ...