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How to Take Care of Someone With COVID-19 at Home
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This pandemic has begun to take its toll, that's for sure. But what happens when a family member tests positive? What can we do? The task of caring for someone with COVID-19 in the home can take the pandemic to a whole new level of stress. There's more to this than caring for someone with the flu. How do you keep from getting infected or keep from passing the virus along when you venture out for needed... 8/7/2020 7:00:00 AM
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Interval Training: Why You Need This High to Low Intensity System
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Interval training can help anyone get the most out of their cardiovascular workouts. This training involves alternating short, high intensity bursts with active rest periods. Doesn’t sound very complicated or challenging on paper, but it's not necessarily easy to complete, but it's so worth it. The best part is that anyone can do intervals, from the novice to the advanced gym goer. All you need is... 8/6/2020 7:00:00 AM
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2 Health Care Scams That Target Seniors
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It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when con artists started doing their thing; what’s certain is that it was centuries before any of us were born. They persist even today, living in the shadows and preying on people in ways that are often despicable and difficult to predict.Unfortunately, most scam artists know exactly who to target for the best results --- usually our most vulnerable, including senior... 8/6/2020 7:00:00 AM
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Back Pain is an Epidemic
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According to the National Library of Medicine, 80% of people will experience back pain at least once during their lifetime. And for far too many sufferers, that pain is chronic. If you've ever suffered back pain then you know how miserable it is. Our backs are connected to everything! And too often it feels like we can't move. Back ha a way of draining us of motivation to do much of anything. The Many... 8/6/2020 7:00:00 AM
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Could Stem Cell Therapy Cure Diabetes?
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In the United States alone, over 34 million people suffer from diabetes, with over 1.5 million new diagnoses each year. About 1.6 million Americans have type 1 diabetes, which requires insulin therapy, but it’s extremely expensive and often hard for patients to regulate. Even with therapy, diabetes is an extremely dangerous disease with an astonishing death rate. Naturally, some researchers have made... 8/5/2020 5:35:46 PM
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Tips and Tricks for Going Vegan
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Going vegan can be a big shift if you're eating the standard meat-heavy American diet. When you consider the sheer overwhelming number of things that contain dairy, well, it's enough to daunt even the most dedicated diet changer. Even things like spending time with family and friends, or going out to eat, may need to change. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But there are some other things to think... 8/4/2020 7:00:00 AM
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Mask Wearing and Oxygen Levels
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You may have heard reports recently about the effects of respirator masks on people who wear them all day. They paint a scary picture, one that creates an impossible choice: Leave everyone open to exposure or put everyone at risk of passing out from low oxygen levels. But it’s important to get all the facts before throwing away those masks.Some people have been promoting claims that lengthy mask use... 8/3/2020 7:00:00 AM
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What to Do When a Friend Has COVID-19
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More and more people are learning firsthand how devastating COVID-19 can be, and infection rates are showing no signs of letting up. Many of us are doing what we can to protect ourselves and our close family members, but friends are important, and even if we can't exactly protect them, we love them, too. So when this illness hits someone close, but outside our household, it’s only natural to want to... 8/3/2020 7:00:00 AM
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3 Keys to Conquering Sadness
by Dr. Rebecca Johnson Osei
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We all have down days. Days when it just feels like nothing is going our way. Days when it feels like nothing will ever go our way again! We all wake up on the wrong side of the bed sometimes, and other times we wake up happy, but in the course of our day things can go downhill and by the time we get home it feels like nothing has gone right.There are numerous quotes out there about how bad times make... 7/31/2020 7:00:00 AM
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Telemedicine May Change Healthcare Permanently
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Coronavirus continues to keep people at home, but there are a number of people who need to see their healthcare providers. And, in fact, many of these people are also at high risk for COVID-19 complications. But healthcare providers are nothing if not savvy and they're responding in new and interesting ways that may change our healthcare practices for years to come (or forever). Telemedicine — Seeing... 7/31/2020 7:00:00 AM
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