YOUR GUIDE TO LOOKING, FEELING AND STAYING HEALTHY
October 2012
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10/17/12Chefs Fight for Your Heart, Personalized Medicine, Kids’ Blood Pressure: DelawareHeart-y Meals I admit it. I have never watched those reality shows—especially the competitive cooking shows. From the iron chefs to the cupcake wars, I somehow never got into them. They look intense. People cry … over cupcakes. Anyway, I think I found a cooking competition that I will watch and this one is a local production. It’s a healthy, heart-smart cooking competition and I can even taste the food. Maybe that’s why I have not watched the shows—it’s too hard to watch those perfectly good cupcakes go to waste just because they “were not innovative.” For this American Heart Association sponsored event called “Chefs Fight for Your Heart,” on Nov. 3, three top local chefs will compete and be judged by a... |
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10/03/12The Power of Pets, Postnatal Weight Loss, Yes U Can: DelawarePet Power When I was 5 years old, we had to give away Flyer, my hamster. Flyer, of course, was named for the Philadelphia Flyers and I truly believed he was worthy of a hamster Stanley Cup. We had to say goodbye to Flyer because I was allergic to him. Soon after, we discovered I was allergic to dogs, cats, horses, you name the animal—I am allergic. So it came as a huge surprise when I was approaching 30 and I received a call that my dad and stepmom had adopted a dog, a Shih Tzu named Tiger. About 12 years ago, my dad suffered a stroke. When I went home to visit him after his illness, I was struck by how protective Tiger was of my dad. It’s as if he knew my dad had been sick and was determined to take care of him. Out of all the family members, Tiger followed my... Posted at 09:12 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
