Healthy Habits to Enhance Your Immune System
Your immune system plays a vital role in keeping your body healthy. It identifies foreign substances in the body like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites, and develops a defense against them
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Your immune system plays a vital role in keeping your body healthy. It identifies foreign substances in the body like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites, and develops a defense against them
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the United States.
October 7 is National Depression Screening Day. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), major depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in the United States, with an estimated 17.3 million adults experiencing a major depressive episode each year.
Domestic violence or abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is not the same as an occasional argument between partners. Domestic violence is a pattern of abuse used by one person to control another.
We don’t always have all of the answers at our fingertips, there is not always a formal return on investment to strive for, or a measure or metric indicating we’re headed in the right direction.
If you choose to follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, it is important to plan your meals to ensure you are consuming foods that contain enough iron, calcium, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin D, and especially protein.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States—second only to skin cancer. Learn more about common symptoms and risk factors to help you identify potential prostate problems and how to take action.
After spending most of the last year in virtual classrooms, many of us are returning to familiar routines this year, including putting our children on the bus or driving them to school. Here are some safety steps to take to help ensure children in your neighborhood stay safe getting to and from school.
Equinoxes occur twice a year…one in the Spring and one in the Autumn. And “equinox” is derived from the Latin meaning, “equal night,” meaning that all over the world, there is approximately 12 hours of light and 12 hours of dark.
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecologic cancer in the United States and causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system