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BlogBack to School Eating Healthy and Fit
So you’re making the effort to learn all you can about building a healthy eating style, what about your kids? Are they going back to school eating healthy and fit? Bad eating habits usually begin...
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BlogThe ABCs of Hepatitis
World Hepatitis Day on July 28 raises awareness of the global impact of viral hepatitis and its prevention. The timing couldn’t be better! Just last week, the World Health Organization announced details of an outbreak of...
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BlogTop 4 holiday safety tips for children
It’s heartbreaking, but in Africa, if a child manages to survive dangerous infectious diseases in the first five years of life, the next obstacle that waits is harm or death from injuries. School-aged kids are...
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BlogWhat is Pink Eye and how do you stop it spreading?
What the rest of the English-speaking world calls “Pink Eye,” Nigerians call “Apollo.” Pink Eye or conjunctivitis, is an inflammation of the transparent membrane covering the whites of the eye and the inside of the...
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BlogCould bad habits cause your unexplained infertility?
There’s mounting evidence of the important role lifestyle plays in unexplained infertility. Could bad habits be the simple explanation for your “unexplained” difficulty getting pregnant? What lifestyle factors impact fertility? Many things that influence health...
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BlogKnow your Breast Cancer risk and early detection strategies
The chances are that any woman feeling a lump in her breast goes into panic mode but not every lump is breast cancer. Most breast lumps are benign (not cancer) and cause few or no...
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BlogProstate cancer and how you can lower your risk
A Prostate cancer diagnosis can change your life forever. The emotional, physical, financial, and social challenges of cancer deeply impact the patient and his family. As a patient, when you hear for the first time...
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BlogLifesaving tips for medical emergencies
There are few situations more frightening than a medical emergency that you feel unprepared to handle. If someone suddenly becomes unconscious right in front of you would you know how to help? Are you confident...
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BlogHow to build healthy eating habits for life
Everything you eat and drink matters. Building healthy eating habits can help you live healthier now and in the future. Eating a healthy diet can prevent chronic diseases like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes...
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BlogWhy obesity is not evidence of good living
It’s ironic that Africa is now facing a “double burden” of disease. On the one hand, we’re dealing with the problems of infectious diseases and under-nutrition. On the other, we’re battling a rapid rise in...
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