Sleep Check: Can your rest patterns contribute to anxiety?
Sufficient rest is essential for maintaining your mental and physical health. But what if the way you sleep causes your stress levels to rise? Poor patterns…
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Tick Talk: Tick bites can transmit diseases, but simple precautions can decrease risk
Your risk of encountering a tick increases considerably the minute you leave your house. These tiny, 8-legged parasites hang out in the great outdoors,…
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Budgeting Basics: Track income and expenses and consider savings options
The new year is a perfect time to reassess finances and put new practices in place. One of these should be creating and sticking to a budget. Budgeting is…
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Growing herbs in limited space
Even where indoor or outside space is at a premium, herbs can grow and flourish with a little out-of-the-box resourcefulness. Maximize floor space with…
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Grow Your Own: Start your vegetable garden with just a few simple tips
It’s no secret that one of the most effective ways to eat healthier is to incorporate lots of vegetables into your diet. And there’s no more convenient source…
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Diabetes Prevention and Health Weight Loss
Six of every 10 Americans are living with at least one chronic condition, including diabetes and heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control…
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Saving for Fun
Where do we want to go on vacation? It’s a question just about every family discusses at some point during the year. But there is a different question they…
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Financial Health Starts Early
Whether students are in grade school, high school or college, the real world will soon be just around the corner. That means doing “grown-up” things like…
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Know the signs and symptoms of stroke — the No. 5 cause of death in the United States
If there’s one thing people of different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds have in common, it’s health. And although cultural and familial aspects such…
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Fight Diabetic Eye Disease
As we age, our eyesight inevitably changes, and so we must focus on new ways to maintain it. Older people with diabetes need to take special care of their…
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Less is More: Overscheduling can lead to stress and anxiety
Overscheduling may seem like the right thing to do to impress supervisors and colleagues, but there’s a big difference between cramming too much into our lives…
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Working the Land: KLN employee has been growing things her entire life
For as long as Christine Diers can recall, she has enjoyed working the soil. Diers began growing and tending to plants during her childhood and continues that…
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Let's Go Camping: Newbies can have a great trip with some planning and precautions
Camping is all about enjoying the simple things in life and relaxing in nature, so in an ideal world, it shouldn’t be stressful to plan for a trip. But it can…
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Finding Balance: Managing work and life means examining values and priorities
When talking about work-life balance, the first step is to flip the script, so to speak. Instead of work-life balance, we should be discussing life-work…
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Decluttering Makes More Space for Life
Ever wonder why it feels so difficult to maintain a tidy space? Physics has the answer. The second law of thermodynamics states that in a closed system,…
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Armstrong High students get trained in hands-only CPR
It takes, on average, eight minutes for paramedics to respond to the scene of an emergency, according to Jim Callipare, a health and PE teacher at Armstrong…
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Canadaigua Connection: Dr. Michael Li aims to help kids start off on the right path
Michael (Huan Tang) Li admits becoming a pediatrician was probably the furthest thing from his mind when he was growing up. “I can honestly say I didn’t think…
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Top tips for traveling seniors
A travel consultant talks safety and convenience when it comes to vacationing
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Your guide to an anti-aging diet
There are several well-known factors that contribute to aging: smoking, stress, sun exposure and genetics, among them. But what you may not realize is what you…
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Keep your pets safe by removing these dangerous items from the house
If you’ve ever been a pet parent you know animals love to explore and taste just about everything in their path. Unfortunately, there are things at home that…
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What does old mean to you?
Laverne Hart, a World War II Navy veteran and retired insurance auditor from Chicago’s south suburbs, enjoys her almost daily card games and lunches at senior…
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Planning and positivity help ease the road to retirement
Bob tuite isn’t the only one in his house who had to alter his schedule when he retired. His dog, Max, had to make some changes, too. “I used to let him out…
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Male breast cancer is rare, but can be just as deadly as it is for women
When it comes to male breast cancer, Dr. Emil Fernando has good news and bad news. The good news, according to Fernando, is that men have a slim chance of…