Help Lower Your Family’s Heart-Disease Risk with These Tips Want to serve your family meals that will leave them satisfied while also helping to protect them from heart disease and stroke? Limit these ingredients to items considered special treats. Saturated fats....
How Do Cavities Develop? When a tooth is exposed to acid frequently – for example, if your child eats or drinks frequently, especially foods or drinks containing sugar and starches – the repeated cycles of acid attacks cause the enamel to lose minerals. A white spot...
What’s the Difference? There are two main forms of diabetes: Type 1 Diabetes This form of diabetes develops when the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, known as beta cells, are destroyed. The destruction of the beta cells limits the making and release of...
Get Active to Help Relieve Arthritis Pain Long gone are the days when doctors told people with arthritis to “rest their joints.” In fact, physical activity can reduce pain and improve function, mobility mood and quality of life for most adults with many types of...
Educate Your Child about the Dangers Similar to cigarettes, hookah smoking delivers the addictive drug nicotine and it is at least as toxic as cigarette smoking. Hookahs are water pipes that are used to smoke specially made tobacco that is usually flavored. Hookah...
Help Prevent the Spread of Colds Hand washing is one of the best ways you and your family can help prevent the spread of colds. Wash your hands often. To wash your hands correctly: Rub soap onto wet hands for 20 seconds. Make sure to get under your fingernails. Dry...
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