Soccer is a relatively safe sport says the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Yet more than 100,000 children and adolescents are treated in emergency rooms each year, and more are treated elsewhere, for soccer-related issues. Studies of these injuries by sports physicians and others have led to the following recommendations to make it an even [...]

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Here are ten of the most healthful tips from the forty topics posted in the past year:

1. June is the month for maximum sun exposure. In June, in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is closest to Earth, straight above you, and there are more hours of sunshine, all increasing exposure. Weather is generally cooler [...]

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A web site on breast-feeding says, “I carry a light-weight blanket when I travel with my breast-fed infant. If someone seems to be bothered by my nursing – even though I do it discreetly – I offer them the blanket so that they can cover their eyes.”

No reason to stay home because you’re breast-feeding. In [...]

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The sun does to skin what tobacco smoke does to lungs. Both produce progressive, cumulative, and irreversible tissue damage, often culminating in very serious health issues many decades later.
But it need not happen. There are positive rays of sunshine, too: information on how to neutralize the harmful effects. Here is what you should know:
1. Don’t [...]

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