Health Tips

I recently read an article in the February issue of Woman’s Day magazine about how reptiles and amphibians are becoming more predominant pets. In the last 10 years, the number of non-traditional pets like lizards and turtles has gone up by about 75% however health experts are warning that they are bigger health [...]

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A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas.  He said the expression ‘going bananas’ is from the effects of bananas on the brain.
After reading this, you’ll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A [...]

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Here’s an e-mail about using Vicks Vapor Rub as a home remedy.  I received it from my good friend, Jeanne, who is always full of great resources and ideas!
I thought you might find the following article from snopes.com interesting: http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/vaporub.asp

Interesting reading . . .might be worth a try.  I loved Vicks for [...]

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This is an article that was sent to me about the negative effects that TV watching has on kids.
Teresa Belton, a research associate at East Anglia University in England, first got interested in daydreaming while reading a collection of stories written by children in elementary school. Although Belton encouraged the students to write [...]

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