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Tag Archives: holiday safety
Don’t let the holiday turkey make your family or friends sick
A case of food poisoning can ruin anyone’s holidays. So take care with your turkey to reduce your risk of food-borne illness. The American Dietetic Association offers these suggestions for buying and cooking turkey:
Posted in Nutritional Health
Tagged Christmas safety, food safety, holiday safety, meat safety
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Christmas trees and trappings can fan fire risk
Here are some expert tips from HealthDay News to avoid getting burned this holiday season.
Posted in Children's Health, General Health, Parenting
Tagged child safety, Christmas toy safety, grilling safety, holiday safety, home safety
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Choosing a toy? Think “Kid-Powered”
Kid-powered toys are those that offer open-ended chances for children to explore, imagine and play. It’s a good idea and here are the details in a report from HealthDay News:
Posted in Children's Health
Tagged child safety seats, Christmas toy safety, holiday safety, toy safety
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Keep Diabetes in Check During the Holidays
For those of you who are diabetics, holiday parties, desserts and buffets can throw your meal plan way off-track. Here are some tips from HealthDay News:
Posted in General Health, Nutritional Health
Tagged diabetes, holiday eating, holiday safety
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How to prevent injuries from holiday decorating
HealthDay News reminds us that decking the halls (and elsewhere) for the holidays may be getting more dangerous, according to a new government report. How can you keep from becoming a statistic?
Posted in General Health
Tagged holiday health, holiday safety, home safety
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Practice Safe Grilling
Many of us will be grilling this July 4th holiday weekend, therefore, it’s a good time for some reminders about how to protect yourself and your family from food-borne illness.
Posted in General Health, Nutritional Health
Tagged food poisoning, food safety, grilling, grilling safety, holiday eating, holiday health, holiday safety
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Give Yourself the Gift of a Stress-Free Holiday
Here are some steps you can take (if not this year, next) to protect your and your family’s health by keeping it simple during the Christmas season. This was originally published at HealthFinder and I hope it’s helpful: ‘Tis the … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health
Tagged holiday health, holiday safety, holiday stress, preventing stress, stress
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Ten Ways to Avoid Christmas Tree and Holiday Allergies
Here are some nice tips from the folks at Fox News. Of course, by now, some of us have learned the hard way, right? Rule No.1 – Keep your decorations “off season” in enclosed containers, this will reduce dust and … Continue reading
Posted in General Health
Tagged holiday health, holiday safety, preventing allergies, seasonal allergic rhinitis
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Physicians’ group and FDA say radiation risk from TSA scanning is “miniscule”
With all the news today about the new body scanners that TSA is using, I thought it might be reassuring for my readers to understand that the radiation exposure in these scans is incredibly low. In fact, a national group … Continue reading
Posted in General Health
Tagged holiday safety, radiation, TSA scanning, whole body scanning
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If safer toys are on shelves this year, how can you find them?
In general, parents shopping for children this holiday season can be confident that toys on the shelves are safer than they have been in the past, at least according to a report by ABC News. The Consumer Product Safety Commission … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Parenting
Tagged child safety, holiday safety, toy safety
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Ten Health Eating Tips for the Holiday Season
Here’s an article I wrote for Significant Living magazine on Ten Health Eating Tips for the Holiday Season: Food is an important part of almost all holidays, celebrations, family reunions, and cultural traditions. And, this is certainly true of the … Continue reading
Posted in General Health, Nutritional Health, Obesity
Tagged holiday eating, holiday health, holiday safety
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