Oak Cliff baby, brain damaged after injury, taken off life support
09:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Darlene Diles spent the first 17 days of her life in her mother’s care before an injury on Jan. 30 left her with severe brain damage.
She spent the remaining days of her life hooked to tubes and machines inside Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where doctors blamed her head injury on child abuse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Read the rest of this entry »
In televised services from Lakewood Church, Victoria Osteen smiles as if she doesn’t know how to appear any other way. She was raised to have a positive outlook and then married into a family with a similar view: that life as an optimist is a lot better than, well, the opposite. A healthy outlook isn’t just about nutrition and exercise, though, says this native Houstonian and mother of two. She recently talked with Health editor Diane Read the rest of this entry »
Differences in culture, religion and language pose daily challenges at the West
health center, where the waiting room might find Iraqis standing next to refugees from Myanmar, or Burundis sitting alongside Somalis and Bhutanese.
On a recent snowy, bitterly cold day, 77 refugees from various countries were treated at the clinic. Among the patients seen by Dr. Gary Kaufman, the clinic’s medical director, were two young sisters from Myanmar who Read the rest of this entry »
If the air in your city is clean, you can tack on about five months to your life. So suggests a new study by researchers at Brigham Young University and Harvard School of Public Health.
This study found that the average life expectancy in 51 cities in the United States increased by nearly three years in recent decades and that approximately five months of that increase came as a result of cleaner air.
“Life expectancy is a well-understood indicator Read the rest of this entry »
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The Life Fitness Center, 2222 Middle Road, Bettendorf, is offering a variety of classes this winter for both members and nonmembers.
Most classes began this week, but they can be joined at any time. Twelve-class punch cards are available for nonmembers for $60. Classes include:
Active older adult fitness — A cardio class designed for those 50 and older that incorporates active movement with mild choreography and chair stretching for flexibility, Read the rest of this entry »
So you started the new year on a diet, right? Giving up carbs and starches, watching the sugars, heavy on the fish and chicken and light on the beef and pork.
Forget it, says Francie Berg, founder of Healthy Weight Network. She’s a licensed nutritionist and adjunct professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine.
“Resolve to follow a healthy, diet-free lifestyle through 2009,” Berg says. “You can get your life back on track, improve Read the rest of this entry »
Gym bags that hold everything a woman needs but will also fit inside her locker can be hard to find. REI kept those things in mind in designing the Balance Gym Bag, $59.50, made from recycled plastic bottles. It has a large zipper opening on the top, a side panel for a 1-liter water bottle, compartments for shoes and clothes, mesh vents to air things out and a removable shower caddy. A zippered stash pocket keeps your keys and phone handy. At REI Read the rest of this entry »
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Billed as the hottest erotic fitness show in the world, RAHFA Entertainment says it has raised the bar in erotica and erotic, nude fitness for 2009.
“We saw what was out there and there really isnt anything quite like our show” says John Allen, Senior Communications Director for the five-year-old company, based in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES — Cleaner air over the past two decades has added nearly five months to average life expectancy in the U.S., according to a study.
Researchers said it is the first study to show that reducing air pollution translates into longer lives.
Between 1978 and 2001, Americans’ average life span increased almost three years to 77, and as much as 4.8 months of that can be attributed to cleaner air, researchers from Brigham Young University Read the rest of this entry »