March is National Nutrition Month. It is a educational campaign started in 1973 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. To celebrate the importance of “eating right,” the Cleveland Clinic has created an infographic on power foods for your heart which we are sharing here. Include these foods in healthy recipes. Some of these foods help...
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“Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it… Let’s do it,” ~Cole Porter Let’s Fall Asleep. All right, so the song doesn’t go like this exactly but it is true that everybody–bees, birds, scorpions, dolphins and lots of other animals–sleep. The Dangers of Sleep Yet if you think about it, sleeping is a pretty dangerous...
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You eat a burger and drink lemonade. Your digestive process breaks the proteins, fats and carbohydrates into smaller components that can be absorbed in the blood. Waste products end up in the blood too. Can you imagine what your blood would be like if there were no filters? 6 Facts about Kidneys Luckily, there are kidneys. Kidneys are one...
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Vigilance is the watchword for caregivers of people with insulin-dependent diabetes. What do you need to know when illness strikes? Energy The body requires more energy when it is sick. That energy fuels the immune system’s fight against infection. People who are sick are often not interested in eating. With type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent...
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Stating the obvious: cancer takes an enormous toll on the sick individual and their family. Being stretched financially and every other way-emotionally, physically, spiritually and everything in between-may make the idea of a vacation a low priority. Yet downtime is important. But what if the vacation were free? There are organizations that have made it...
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