Archive for the ‘Awareness’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, which creates mixed emotions for me. I believe everyone has the right to smoke if that's what they choose to do. I, however, would have loved to spend my childhood and adulthood with my grandmother, who died from lung cancer when I was 3. ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Did you know that November is Healthy Skin Month? To spread healthy skin awareness, I've compiled advice from four medical experts on how to treat and protect your skin.
Don't smoke. "Quit smoking or, better yet, don't even start! More and more young people are smoking and doing so to relieve ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
We can't avoid aging (at least not yet), so why not work with aging to make it a positive and healthy experience? That's the idea behind Healthy Aging Month, created 10 years ago by Educational Television Network and now promoted by healthyaging.net. This month is about inspiring and motivating older ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
What are you going to do for International Massage Week? Get a massage? That's what I'm doing!
According to HealthWord Online, this week was designed to raise awareness of the benefits of therapeutic massage, and to encourage individuals to care for their health through massage.
I love getting massages and have ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Not sure how many of you know what Therapeutic Recreation Week is, since I had no idea when I decided to write a post about it, but it's actually pretty cool. Here's what the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) says about it:
"The purpose of National Therapeutic Recreation Week ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Everyone has that one story of the sunburn they'll never forget. My story begins the day before my oldest sister’s wedding.
Upon our arrival to the beach, the first thing my sister said to me was, "Do not get sunburned! You will ruin the wedding pictures." Being a sixteen-year-old, I didn’t ...
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