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Healthy LIfestyle

• Healthy Lifestyle Awards
  The Herald-Dispatch will be presenting three Healthy Lifestyle Awards at is annual Health Expo on Saturday, Oct. 16.
• Healthy eating not only ensures good-health, but successful careers too
  Washington, Sep 6 : Eating healthy and living well is a bigger issue than your waistline— poor dietary habits can also take a toll on your careers, claims a new study.
• The MU Healthy Lifestyle Initiative Is Helping Redefine Efforts To Combat Obesity, Sedentary Lifestyles
  As the nation becomes more aware of health issues related to nutrition and lifestyle choices, communities are struggling to find ways to make healthy living easier. The University of Missouri is helping communities turn healthy ideas into sustainable changes through the Healthy Lifestyle Initiative. The initiative, underway at 13 sites in 12 Missouri countie […]
• MIND & SPIRIT: Small steps towards healthy eating
  DO you eat to live or live to eat? Do you only eat when you are hungry or do you eat for other reasons?
• Most foster children feel loved: survey
  Most children in foster care feel happy, healthy and loved but many worry about their futures, a new survey shows.
• Diet, exercise, rest, flu shots can help boost the immune system
  Faithful readers of this column will recall that last school year was a particularly brutal one, minor-illness-wise, for the Butler family, complete with runny noses, hacking coughs and the not-so-occasional stomach flu. So as we come to the tail end of a perfectly healthy, happy, snot-free summe... Immune system - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Infectio […]
• Health Extension Update
  Getting children active will help them establish healthy habits that will continue into adulthood. Instead of turning on the television after coming home from work and school, families should do fun physical activities together to help promote a healthier lifestyle.
• Men have more "senior moments" of memory loss than women
  Lost the car keys? Forgot someone's name? Many elderly people suffer slight cognitive problems but men are more likely than women to suffer momentary memory lapse or senior moments, according to a U.S. study.
• Low-Carb Diets Heavy on Meat May Raise Health Risks
  MONDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A low-carbohydrate diet that derives fats and proteins from vegetable sources rather than meats is probably healthier, new research finds.
• A lifestyle change for the better: Food co-ops offer fresh food for less money
  When Dina Volkman's husband had a heart attack two years ago, she knew her family needed better meal plans: no fried food, less salt and more fresh fruits and vegetables.