Health and Beauty

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Recovery is for everyone

PEOPLE OF ANY BACKGROUND can experience mental-health and substance-use issues—a truth that has been all too evident throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with its associated stressors such as the fear of getting sick, isolation, job loss or income insecurity, the shift from in-person to virtual...
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Auditory processing disorder

THE AUDIOLOGISTS AT NORTHWEST OHIO HEARING CLINIC see a wide variety of patients, from babies to adults, with issues from hearing loss and tinnitus to dizziness. Every so often, a parent will bring in their school-aged child and report that they are not hearing well.
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Time to look as young as you feel!

What does the skin on your face, neck, chest, and hands reveal about you? Will the fine lines, brown spots (age spots), large veins on the hands, and sagging jowls and neck portray you as tired, withered, and older than you are?
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In the pink: Race For The Cure celebrates breast cancer survivors

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE will converge upon Fifth Third Field the last Sunday of this month with one thing in common: the color pink. “They’ll be in pink wigs, pink tutus, pink shoes, pink ribbons—they’ll be decked out in all kinds of things pink,” Mary Westphal says.

Dismiss these five mental illness myths:

1. People with mental illness just need to change the way they think Negative thought patterns can be improved dramatically with proper treatment; however, individuals with mental illness can’t get better by simply deciding to think differently. 2.
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Five health issues new college students encounter

GOING AWAY TO COLLEGE, with its flood of new faces, fresh ideas, academic challenges, and newfound freedoms, can be an exhilarating experience for incoming freshmen. But starting college can also be a time when unhealthy habits begin to creep into a young adult’s lifestyle.
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Plant-based basics

IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T OBSERVED THE TREND, plant-based diets are all the rage these days and many foods on supermarket shelves are now labeled “plant-based.”