Archive for the 'Healthy Places' Category
Is your doctor making you sick?
We want to know whether you’ve been the victim of medical negligence. Have you ever been misdiagnosed, or worse had a health problem that went unnoticed by medical professionals for years? How about had an error with a prescription or medical examining outcome? Or, have you ever gone to the hosp…
Older neighborhoods are thinner
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During an architectural boat tour of Chicago yesterday, my eyes soaked in the beauty of the older buildings, such as the Civic Opera House, Wrigley Building and Merchandise Mart. The sleek, reflective, contemporary behemoths dotting the riverfront didn’t compare — my subjective two-cents.
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Trisha Yearwood and her Oklahoma kitchen
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Trisha Yearwood isn’t just a country music star and the wife of country-music performer Garth Brooks. Nope. She’s additionally a cookbook author who shares some of her kitchen secrets with Health.com. Check out what the author of Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen has to say right here. Here…
Are you SEAL fit?
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Have you ever watched a program on the Discovery Channel on the U.S. Navy Seals or read an essay about the intense training that elite fighting force undergoes? The nearly continuous barrage of drills and tests, pushing soldiers to their physical and mental limits, is simply too much for some re…
Cleveland Clinic pairs with Weight Watchers
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The renowned Cleveland Clinic isn’t just taking care of its patients, it’s additionally making certain that employees are in good health as well. The hospital banned smoking in 2005, and as of final fall, stopped hiring citizens who smoked. They’ve eliminated trans fats not only from patient men…
Paddle your way fit
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The gym may have flat screen TVs for you to watch while you burn some calories on the rowing machine, but how cool would it be to actually get out in the water and start paddling?
Kayaking is a fun and exciting way to put in a solid workout. Even as a beginner, it’s not terribly strange to bu…
Avoid a leaky wallet that summer
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Just booked a family canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Superior National Forest. From Minnesota’s Gunflint trail, we’re slipping a 4-person family canoe into Seagull Lake for a four-day paddle chosen for its kid-friendly portages and variety of terrain. Lots of swimming, hiking, ca…
Ranking America: ACSM tallies the fit factor
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The American College of Sports Medicine has tallied the statistics to rank 15 of America’s largest metropolitan cities. Which cities were deemed the fittest? Which fell at the bottom, and why?
The goal of the fitness index is to give a quick glimpse of the health status of America’s metropoli…
Fat school
My son often comes home with stories about kids teasing him or kids picking on another child during the school day. It was true when I was in school and it’s still true nowadays… kids can be cruel. So I can only suppose how difficult life might be for a child or teenager who’s morbidly obese. In a…
Eat fast food for a month, drop five pounds?
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That’s what Credit Suisse restaurant analyst Keith Siegner did for all of April 2008 and somehow managed to lose five pounds. Yep, that’s right, he only ate at fast-food chains like McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Subway and Domino’s for 30 days straight. But unlike Morgan Spurlock, of ‘Super Size Me’ fame…
Worst cities for allergies
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Though he claims he never had allergies before moving here to my hometown 10 years ago, my husband came home after a recent allergy pop quiz with a sheet filled with items that he reacted to. While I doubt all of his allergies cropped up in the final decade, I do know that our area is not good f…
Headed for the Outback? Try this
I have fond memories of the Outback Steakhouse. Years ago, my hubby and I would dine there every Friday night. that was before kids, before budgets, before our bodies began to bulge. We don’t eat out so often anymore. And we typically stray from the place where cheese fries tempt our taste buds.
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Making certain your spa is safe
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Oh… a day at the spa. Sounds like a relaxing bit of heaven, doesn’t it? How does a nail infection sound? Or a deadly overdose of hair-removal treatment? Spas offer a variety of services nowadays — not just the run-of-the-mill facial and massage. So you should check your spa out as thoroughly …












