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Amp Up Your 2016 Fitness Routine With These 8 Classes
If you’re already in danger of ditching your get-fit resolution, spice up your routine with a new class. Celebrities and fitness gurus across the country swear by these eight hot workouts. Try one and...
View ArticleTurning Loss From Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Into Action
With a young daughter, a busy career involving substantial travel and a working husband, Jan Tratnik didn’t believe that she had the bandwidth to also become the primary caretaker of her mother who...
View ArticleWinter SAD-ness: Could You Have Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Winter can be a challenging season for just about everyone, thanks to temperatures below freezing, heavy cloud cover and gray slush. But for the more than 14 million people in the United States alone...
View Article8-Minute Fitness Guide: Workouts for Your Whole Body
Work out your core, arms, legs and mind in less than eight minutes with the Make It Better video fitness guide. Instructors from Evanston and Chicago’s exhale spa, Winnetka’s Yogi Barre, home personal...
View ArticleNew in Town: Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary Opening in Highland Park
A new medicinal cannabis dispensary will open its doors in Highland Park this March. Elevele provides a safe and supportive environment to make every interested (and qualifying) patient feel...
View Article9 Steps Parents Can Take to Curb Medicine Abuse
With cold and flu season in full swing, the medicine cabinet sees a lot of attention, housing medications that are prescribed or available over the counter (OTC). Most people get the relief they need...
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Build a Strong, Sexy Upper Back With These 8 Moves
Too much time spent hunched over mobile devices can weaken your back, worsen your posture and lead to aches and pains elsewhere in your body. Add some killer upper back exercises to your fitness...
View ArticleThe Text That Can Save a Life
If you live in Lake or McHenry Counties — and soon if you live in New Trier Township — please be sure that your loved ones know they can text 847HELP to 274637. This text reaches Text-A-Tip, the only...
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The MonaLisa Touch is Changing Women’s Lives
Do you experience dryness, itching, burning, painful urination or pain during intercourse? More than 40 percent of women experience these types of symptoms in menopause, during treatment for breast...
View ArticleZika Virus: What You Need to Know and How You Can Help
Zika has been all over the news lately and has raised some serious concern, especially for women in their childbearing years. Authorities in some South American countries like El Salvador, Colombia and...
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Food as Medicine: Diet Plays a Growing Role in Healing
With its distinct flavor and pungent aroma, garlic has quite a reputation for making dishes sing. But here’s something you might not have known: eating garlic can bring down your blood pressure,...
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As Food Allergies Rise, Local Moms Fight for More Research and Awareness
The statistics on food allergies in children in the U.S. are startling — and on the rise. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a 50 percent increase in the number of...
View ArticleNew in Town: Hit 180 Fitness in Northfield
Hit 180 Fitness is bringing tailored low-impact, high-intensity fitness classes and training to Northfield. Located in the Mybody Complex, Hit 180 Fitness offers a variety of classes as well as a broad...
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An Experience With Floating
Does “sensory deprivation” sound more like a torture technique than a relaxation experience? If closing yourself up in a small room or tank with limited light while you lie in supremely salty water...
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Focus on Fitness: Where to Get a Killer Workout in Winnetka and Northfield
The North Shore offers residents ample outdoor recreation opportunities with beautiful Lake Michigan to the east and the Cook County Forest Preserves to the west. Too hot or cold to take your fitness...
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10 Kid-Friendly Exercise Classes for Busy Moms
When you have a new baby or a couple of small children at home, getting to the gym can be challenging — to put it mildly. Even if you can muster the motivation, there’s the issue of childcare. Remove...
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Why Global Immunization Efforts Matter Around the World and at Home
Every 20 seconds around the world, a child dies from a vaccine-preventable disease. One in 5 children globally does not have access to the vaccines they need to survive. World Immunization Week is...
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Chicago Cubs’ Honorary Bat Girl Raises Cancer Awareness
Molly Oliver’s dedication to the Chicago Cubs is no light matter. While living in Philadelphia, she made a point to trek to Citizens Bank Park every time her beloved Cubbies came to town. The...
View ArticleDo You Know CPR? It’s a Matter of Life and Death
Do you already know CPR? Really know it? And yes, it’s changed since you took it in high school. Are there people at your office who are trained? What about the people who work at your favorite...
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The Need for Sleep: Why You Should Turn Off Tech and Get Some Rest
“We are now part of a sleep deprivation epidemic,” says Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of “The Sleep Revolution,” her 15th book, during her program...
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