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It’s Not My Fault!
Photo: Jeffrey Zavitski Just when I think our world cannot get any crazier I pick up the newspaper and see the headline, "Activists blame obesity on sugary SpongeBob." Spongebob causes childhood...
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Gene Pool Dating?
Photo: David Hughes To anyone out there that may have ever felt rejected by someone they have loved, I am here to tell you; it may not have been you. Well, it may have been you, but, not for the...
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Sick Days
Photo: Ronald Bloom My oldest succumbed first. She came downstairs in the gray light of a winter morning, her face blazing with an unhealthy flush. “My head hurts,” she said. A quick hand to her...
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A Gourmet Wannabe Drops Out
Photo: Leslie Banks All those helpful cooking recipes in parenting magazines designed to get kids to eat healthy gourmet meals? They lie. Those glossy photos depicting cute little moppets happily...
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Physical Therapy for Vaginas
Photo: David Reeves I was curious as to what kind of person decides to specialize in physical therapy for vaginas. I mean, I’m no medical expert, but I do have a vagina, and I can’t imagine that there...
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The Push to Medicate Children
Photo: Cathy Kaplan There’s the push: from teachers, from doctors, from social workers, and even from random strangers. They push to medicate differences in children away as if some little pill can...
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Worldwide Pandemic: Who Would Be Saved First?
© Can Stock Photo Inc. / pressmaster If a worldwide pandemic occurs, the order in which people are deemed to be important enough to save or to whom experts submitted an ethical obligation is tricky and...
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Becoming a Mom Again after Breast Cancer - There's life for parents after a...
© Can Stock Photo Inc. / Ydur I was 38 and a single parent working 48 hours a week to support my two daughters. I had a lot of support from my family in raising my girls, so when I found a lump in my...
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Q: How Bad Do Mammograms Hurt? A: They Hurt like Hell - So NOT my idea of a...
© Can Stock Photo Inc. / monkeybusiness I had my first mammogram yesterday. After it was done, I ran though a mental checklist of things that would have been much more pleasant — chewing glass, having...
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My Horrible OB-GYN Experience - Be your own healthcare advocate
Photo: ljupco Health has never been a big concern in my life. As a child, my mother chose to avoid the doctor because I literally fought the nurses tooth and nail. That was back when antibiotics were...
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