Lifestyle
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Damage more than skin deep: Young girls are using anti-aging products they see on social media
Sep 08, 2024 8:34 am - Preteen girls around the country throng beauty stores to buy high-end skin care products. Girls as young as 8 are turning up at dermatologists’ offices with rashes, chemical burns and other allergic reactions to products not intended for children’s sensitive skin.
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First credit cards can make or break you. Here’s what you need to know.
Sep 08, 2024 5:43 am - Newly minted credit-card users have reasons to be wary. Here’s what you need to know if you’re a student about to sign up for your first credit card.
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Grief & healing: Rituals change but have funerals lost a personal touch?Sep 07, 2024 7:00 am - Recently a friend mentioned that she went to a funeral, but there was no lunch and not even a reception afterward. So she just went home. People always used to attend a wake or visitation, stay for the funeral, followed by a luncheon. So I started wondering. What’s going on?
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1 in 7 kids in US may have blood pressure that’s higher than normal
Sep 06, 2024 7:00 pm - About 14% of children and teens in the U.S. either have high blood pressure or are headed toward it, according to preliminary new research that suggests a need for greater prevention efforts earlier in life.
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Visit Lake County marks 40 years of bolstering tourism, business communitySep 06, 2024 2:22 pm - The latest economic impact report for Illinois reveals significant growth in the travel and tourism sector, with Lake County standing out as a major contributor.
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Lutheran Home in Arlington Heights embraces aging positively in new seriesSep 06, 2024 1:29 pm - This week, Lutheran Life Communities is launching an innovative “Aging Gracefully” sermon series.
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JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers
Sep 06, 2024 9:41 am - Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s religious conversion has put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement, viewed by some critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leanings, that has been little known to the American public until Vance’s rise to the national stage.
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Painting the Fox River — and keeping it cleanSep 06, 2024 4:00 am - Anna Cherkashina’s “Fox River at Sunset” painting earned Best of Show in the recent Plein Art event hosted by the St. Charles Arts Council. The painting could serve as a motivation for volunteers who participate in upcoming Fox River cleanup events.
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Are you a ‘complex’ patient?Sep 06, 2024 12:02 am - Health care providers are seeing more patients with complex conditions than ever. But what does this mean for patients and what can they do about it?
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How to protect childhood cancer survivors’ heartsSep 05, 2024 10:26 pm - Childhood cancer survivors are at a higher risk to develop heart problems. Parents should be vigilant about heart-healthy habits, like good nutrition and regular exercise.