Worldwide Awareness How can we reduce the burden of cancer worldwide? How can I help in reducing the burden of cancer worldwide? These are the questions that the World Cancer Day campaign would like all of us to ask ourselves today. World Cancer Day was started in 2000 during the World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millenium held in Paris. It is an...
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~Helen Keller Heart and Soul Perhaps the idea that the soul resides in the heart comes from its constancy. Our hearts start to beat in the womb at around 6 weeks. Usually parents-to-be can hear it at their 3 month prenatal...
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January is Thyroid Awareness Month Why is the month of January set aside to bring awareness to a tiny, butterfly-shaped gland in the neck? Most people don’t know anything about their thyroid gland–including where it is. But when your thyroid doesn’t work right, neither do you. The hormones it produces affect every cell in the body. Thyroid...
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Confucius An elephant and a feather would fall from a tall building and land at exactly the same time (in the absence of air resistance). Getting your head around it is hard but it’s just the nature of gravity. Everyone is affected by gravity. From the time we’re up on...
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What’s A Diabetes Kit? If you or someone you care for has Type 1 Diabetes, creating a kit is a must. Highs and lows are part of life, especially for children and adolescents with Type 1 diabetes, simply because they are growing. A diabetes kit is a collection of the tools you need to deal with the extreme highs and lows that can happen with Type one...
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