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We’ve all had the unfortunate experience of opening the refrigerator only to be slapped by a putrid stench emanating from within its depths. It can be hard enough trying to determine what the source of the smell is — did something spill and cause a mess? Is the lettuce in the produce drawer rotting? Is there a forgotten container of […]
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It’s a new year and many people are in the mood for making a fresh start. And that often means giving something up (cigarettes, alcohol, junk food). Unfortunately, the odds of sticking with new year resolutions are not good. Come February, 80 percent of people will have given up giving up. So what can we learn from the 20 percent […]
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A future investment! Aaron Paul revealed on Live With Kelly and Ryan that he got the baby-sized Breaking Bad costume that his daughter, Story, wore at San Diego Comic-Con in 2018 — at the same Comic-Con five years ago. “I actually got that outfit the last time I was at Comic-Con five years previous to this,” Paul, 40, explained on […]
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Mothers are often their own toughest critics, but new research shows they judge other mothers just as harshly. The results, published in the Journal of Family Communication, are concerning to Kelly Odenweller, lead author and assistant teaching professor of communication studies at Iowa State University. She says support networks are critical and negative experiences with other mothers may be detrimental […]
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A new study published today in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research shows how bones in mammals are negatively impacted by calorie restriction, and particularly by the combination of exercise and calorie restriction. Maya Styner, MD, associate professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, is the senior author on the study. “These findings were somewhat of a […]
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People generally think of stress and anxiety as negative concepts, but while both stress and anxiety can reach unhealthy levels, psychologists have long known that both are unavoidable—and that they often play a helpful, not harmful, role in our daily lives, according to a presentation at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. “Many Americans now feel stressed about […]
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Country singer Granger Smith’s wife, Amber Smith, spoke out about their 3-year-old son River’s death in an emotional post on Sunday, June 23. Amber, 37, and the couple’s two other children, London, 7, and Lincoln, 5, visited the Field Museum in Chicago on Sunday to see a dinosaur skeleton. “We just happened to be in the same city as the […]
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As hard as we may try to avoid bringing work home with us, a new study by the American Psychological Association indicates that the impact of working with bad coworkers can reach far beyond office walls. The study surveyed 146 working mothers and their spouses to reveal that mothers who experienced workplace behavior that was considered “rude, disrespectful, impolite or […]
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(HealthDay)—Most new mothers in the United States start out breastfeeding, but many stop sooner than recommended, a new federal government report says. Of the nearly 4 million babies born in 2015, about 83 percent started out breastfeeding, but fewer than 36 percent were still breastfeeding at 12 months, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 6 […]
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Going off to college might be a source of anxiety for some students, but once a student is on campus it shouldn’t be a total drag. But that tends to happen more frequently when a student ends up at a college where the student body is weaker academically overall than the one where the student went to high school. This […]
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