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Home Safety * Save gas by doing close-to-home outdoor recreation activities, such as skating and making snowmen with your children. * Choose non-toxic toys for children, such as ones made from solid and recycled wood (not pressed wood) and non-toxic paints and finishes. Avoid toys made of PVC plastic; xylene, toluene, or dibutyl phthalate. * […]
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Child Safety Is your home safe for curious children? To see your home from a toddler’s point of view, get down on your hands and knees and crawl around. Look for conditions that can lead to burns, falls, electric shock, entrapment, or poisoning. Then take steps to prevent harm. Some suggestions: * Cover all toddler-height
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Mental Health A person with an eating disorder is obsessed with food and/or body weight. Eating disorders are serious but treatable mental and physical illnesses that affect people of all ages, genders, body weights, and racial/ethnic backgrounds. It is estimated that millions of Americans have struggled with an eating disorder at some point over their
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Mental Health Common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and bulimia nervosa. With these, persons are obsessed with food and/or body weight. Eating disorders are a way to cope. They are serious health problems. Signs & Symptoms For Anorexia Nervosa * Loss of a lot of weight in a short time. * Intense,
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Personal Safety Chronic diseases include arthritis, asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, emphysema, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke. An unhealthy diet, inactivity and overweight, and tobacco use are common risk factors for many chronic diseases. * Live a healthy lifestyle. Be active. Walk. Rake leaves. * Limit exposure to air pollution to reduce the risk
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Financial Health Prepare for the future well-being of your loved ones. If you have a will or other estate plan, great! If you are one of 55-70 percent of adults in the U.S. that do not, put it off no longer. State your wishes, now, to give your family peace of mind instead of reasons
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Mental Health Care It is not always easy to evaluate treatment. You may not be able to look at it objectively or know what to expect. For treatment to be effective: * You should be comfortable with your counselor. * You should feel the treatment he or she is providing is helpful. * You should
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Financial Health * Limit your number of credit cards. * Use 1 or 2 major credit cards that have low interest rates. Individual store and gas cards have very high interest rates. * Only charge what you can pay in full when you get the bill. Or, aim to keep the balance to less than
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Mental Health The Christmas season (and other holidays, to a lesser degree) leave millions of people blue, not joyful. Contributing factors include: * Family members who live far away. * Memories of a loved one who has passed away. * Financial problems. * Fatigue and feelings of being overwhelmed by tasks and obligations associated with
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Mental Health If you have signs of it, seek treatment. Depression is more than just having a bad day. It’s a constant feeling of sadness or anger, inability to concentrate, and lack of interest in anything. Unlike diabetes, a blood test may not be able to detect depression, but it is a medical illness, just
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