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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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This is a good question and one that may surprise many people. Professional chaplains are people of any faith community–Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu and more–ordained or endorsed by that community. Their role is to provide “emotional, spiritual, religious, pastoral, ethical, and/or existential care” in a secular setting. ...
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The Wonder of Coffee Coffee has been around for a long time. The tree has grown in Ethiopia for centuries. According to legend, one day long ago a goat herder name Kaldi watched his goats eat berries from the tree. The goats that ate the berries were energized, running around and not sleeping at night. Kaldi shared his observation with the abbot of...
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