Category: Health
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Women’s Health

Did you know it was National Women’s Health Week? This week comes with an array of healthy recommendations: Visit a health care professional to receive regular checkups and preventive screenings. Get active. Eat healthy. Pay attention to mental health, including getting enough sleep and managing stress. Avoid unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, texting while driving, and…
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Skinny Meals

Bob Harper was on the Today Show this morning promoting his book, Skinny Meals. As you probably know, Bob is a weight-loss expert on The Biggest Loser and his prior book, Skinny Rules offers tips and tricks help you get slim and healthy, whether you want to lose 10 pounds or 100. Two tips he shared were: 1) No carbs, except…
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Top Medicare Billers

I often wonder why news papers publish tables when a visual would be much better! Sigh… The Washington Post analyzed the latest Medicare data (2012), released for the first time… ever. The article points out, “The top 10 doctors alone received a combined $121.4 million for Medicare Part B payments in 2012“, breaks down the spending by category and…
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Calm in Chaos

Life is tough. It’s hard. There’s always curve balls thrown at you from multiple angles: some you knock out of the park and some knock you down. There is a single factor that determines the outcome, regardless of the situation: you. So what’s the secret sauce? How do you stay calm in the midst of chaos, when…
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How Do You Move?

Our Fabulous First Lady wants to know how you move! Facebook it, Tweet it, Instagram It, Vine it… just be sure to use the hashtag #letsmove. If the movement gets enough momentum, she promises to use her “pull” to get the POTUS and the VPOTUS to show us their moves! Watch Mrs. Obama on The…