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Health Headlines - November 28
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Meredy
Many Type 2 Diabetes Patients Morbidly Obese: U.S. Study Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study. "The rate of morbid obesity among people with diabetes is increasing at a very alarming rate, and this has substantial public healt ...
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Health Tips for November 28
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Meredy
Health Tip: Caring for Baby's Umbilical Cord Newborns still have a little stump of what's left of the umbilical cord. Though it should fall off on its own by the end of the third week, some doctors recommend that parents take additional steps to prevent infection. Other doctors recommend leaving the area alone. If the pediatrician approves, the Ne ...
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News From The Front T+15
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Strapples
I am doing well clinically, I have clear secretions and am suctioning well. I have been released to the Pediatric Special Care Unit (PSCU) from the PICU.We were not able to do any speech rehab stuff today, maybe tomorrow.Goodnight all.
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Taking a break till the new year...
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Rosy G.
Hey friends. Just thought I would let you know that I will be taking a break from blogging until the new year rolls around. Guess you can say that I am kind of getting that blog freeze again(something that does happen here and there), not to mention that with December hitting us in just a mere few days (hard to believe) its that time of year where ...
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Thanksgiving 2009
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Al O.
Thanksgiving Day has passed (except for the leftovers) and I am once again reminded what a truly excellent, thoughtful, thankful holiday this is. Thanksgiving provides the opportunity for each of us to reflect, consider, ponder, and give deep and truthful thanks for everything that life and the Good Lord have sent our way. Thanksgiving is the cal ...
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We Do It Up
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Jenna ..
Wow, what a fun day! Instead of going on a shopping adventure on Black Friday, we chose to go on a WINE COUNTRY adventure! Woot woot!But first……breakfast!Oatmeal made with water, banana, greek yogurt, almond butter and honey. Somehow despite all the pounds of food I ate last night, I was stillllll hungry this morning at 7 am! After br ...
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The Affair, part 8
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T
Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6Part 72000: I'm not sure exactly how K's wife found out - I think it was the picture of me dressed in lingerie that he'd accidentally left on the scanner. I truly think that subconsciously, K wanted to end the anxiety. He must have wanted to be caught so the fear would finally subside. I only remember a 3 hour t ...
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My Ridiculously Long IMAZ 2009 Race Report
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left.right.repeat
Ironman Arizona 2009 Race Report What a year!!! Bear with me as this will be long – hey, it’s a long race. We start the year with my first full marathon, announcement of a corporate merger, our daughter’s college graduation and subsequent job search and relocation. Then it was a Half Ironman that rained the ENTIRE race, a bike c ...
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Health and Evolutionary Reasoning – The PaNu Method
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Kurt G Harris MD
Our current ideas of "health" or "optimal health" are modern concepts. Although evolving over millenia, in current form they are specific to our culture and are part of our "language game" - to borrow Ludwig Wittgenstein's term. One definition of a language game is an internally coherent system of values and concepts t ...
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