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For those trying to eat healthy, maybe even shed a few pounds, one of the biggest challenges can be eating on the go. Certain settings can be huge food temptation triggers, like the mall food court. Food courts offer a smorgasbord of fast food. And these foods aren’t typically geared towards healthy choices, leading to overwhelmed, rash decisions, […]
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Today (October 5, 2016) is World Cerebral Palsy Day. Cerebral Palsy (CP) Day is guided by the social manifesto, “We Are Here”. It’s committed to helping the global community of those with CP thrive. Even though individuals with CP may seem different because they may move, communicate, and experience the world in different ways, the 2016 World CP Day campaign […]
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October 2 to 8, 2016 marks National Midwifery Week. This week we recognize midwives and midwife-led primary care for families, individual patients, moms, and babies. We believe that #MidwivesMakeADifference, a big difference that spans well beyond home births (in fact, 97-percent of midwife births occur in hospital) and delivering babies. In fact, the infographic below was created by nurse midwife, Joy Sedlock, […]
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Celiac disease is a very real illness, even though the painful effects aren’t always visible on the outside. The serious genetic autoimmune disease effects roughly 3-million Americans yet a shocking 83-percent of celiac sufferers remain diagnosed. Unfortunately, if left untreated, celiac disease can cause thyroid disease, osteoporosis, anemia, and even trigger the development of cancer (i.e., non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, adenocarcinoma of the […]
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Approximately 565,000 people in the U.S. have Crohn’s disease. However, many don’t know why they’ve developed the inflammatory bowel condition. But a new study from the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center may have identified a cause. The study identified a specific fungus and two bacteria that […]
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