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Health Headlines - November 29
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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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Port, Courtney, Thanksgiving
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froggy14
So I got my port successfully flushed on Wednesday. This was the same nurse that did it the first time. She got it in one shot! You could still see the marks where the other chick had tried 3 times so I had her check it out and then feel where they were. She said that it was right over the edge!!! That's what I told the other chick!! She didn ...
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Miscellany for Saturday
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Meredith
A little miscellany for this Saturday: This has been the weirdest Thanksgiving. We had one with my family, one with Dave's family, and I'm yet to have any turkey. Not because I didn't want turkey, because there wasn't any turkey. My family's never got done and we had roast at Dave's family. Weird.Our puppy Sloopy is starting to come out of her ...
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Virtual Book Tour: Pris Campbell on Sea Trails
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T
(super-quick update: I'm doing pretty well and have just been focusing on enjoying the holidays, the crash is easing and I'm catching up on some things) I am very honored today to host a virtual book club stop for author and poet Pris Campbell. Her new book, Sea Trails: Poems and 1977 Passage Notes, is out and here's Pris to talk about her book! W ...
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Spotlight on cookbooks: THE RAW FOOD REVOLUTION DIET
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Gena
Hey all!Hope that your many Thanksgiving celebrations were absolutely lovely. Thanks for your comments on my thankful post — I should have added that I am terribly thankful for all of you!One of the more frequent reader questions I get is which cookbooks or raw diet books I most recommend. It’s not always a question I love to answer, si ...
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NCB ~ Simply ~ The BEST
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Lacie H.
Our North Colonie Pee Wee Large cheer team competed at the Eastern Regional competition last weekend in Trenton, NY. Our cars were covered in shoe polish with NORTH COLONIE BISON. The top two teams go on to compete at the National level in Florida, Walt Disney World. Last year we missed going to Nationals by TWO points.After the NY competitions we ...
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Images from 2009 CHPRMS Conference and Wallie Awards
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Dan Dunlop
Here are a few of the photos I took last week while attending the fall conference of the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations & Marketing Society (CHPRMS) and the annual Wallie Awards. The meeting took place in Asheville, North Carolina at the amazing Grove Park Inn. I’ve mixed in some scenic shots. Enjoy!Ann Nickels and Michele Affr ...
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Taking the new immune system out for a spin...
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Nicolas van Dyk
Hello everyone! I hope that those of you in the States had a great Thanksgiving, and those of you everywhere are enjoying your weekend. I, obviously, have much to be thankful for. Jill and I spend each Thanksgiving with two other families with whom we are very close and whom we are so fortunate to be friends with. This is, I think, our fifteen ...
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The Healthy Benefits of Bee Venom Therapy
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Methods of Healing
If you are suffering from any joint, spinal, neurological or musculoskeletal ailments, bee venom therapy just might be the alternative medicine you are looking for to alleviate your pain. Bee venom therapy, in short, is a therapeutic treatment in the apitherapy family in which a honey bee is allowed to sting you, releasing its “poison” ...
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The Curative Effects of Honey
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Methods of Healing
Honey is the thick, sweet by-product of bees and has been used as a healthy alternative to sugar and other sweeteners. It is simply amazing how bees can feed on flower nectar and through a chemical process, their saliva turns that nectar into honey. In addition to being a natural sweetener, there has been a lot of scientific research that supports ...
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