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Healthy Living: Get your green(s) on!
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, March 16, 2015. Get your green(s) on! Unless you like being pinched (and if so, I don’t want to know), odds are that you’re wearing something green today a shirt, a belt, a tie, an undergarment (again, no need to specify). While contemplating your attire for this lively holiday, why not dress up your table (and your insides) too? Like spinach, ka...
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Healthy Living: Sharing some secrets to better health
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, July 27, 2015. Sharing some secrets to better health. I'll just stay hostile.". That’s good news about aging as we all head in that direction. Alice Facente is a community health nurse for the Backus Health System. This advice should not replace the advice of your personal health care provider. Posted by - - - - - - - - - @ 3:48 PM. Perspectives ...
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Healthy Living: Laughter can be the best medicine
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, June 22, 2015. Laughter can be the best medicine. There isn't much fun in medicine, but there's a heck of a lot of medicine in fun.". Don't we all feel much more relaxed after a good laugh? Reduction of stress hormone. Humor reduces pain sensation through triggering the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers. Rheumatoid arthrit...
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Healthy Living: Tips for a healthy food fiesta
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, May 04, 2015. Tips for a healthy food fiesta. If you’re hearing the faint echoes of mariachi melodies and feeling a sudden urge to go postal on a piñata, don’t worry. You’re not going crazy, it’s just May 5! However, what most of us north of the border would consider Mexican food is actually an Americanized interpretation. Has to be better. Grain...
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Healthy Living: Group support is key to quitting smoking
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, February 23, 2015. Group support is key to quitting smoking. The tobacco companies may not like us, but we are on a mission to reach out to every smoker in our community. And offer the opportunity to join our smoking cessation classes. We want to spread the word:. That’s a very good quit rate. The secret to our success is two-fold. The program fa...
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Healthy Living: Walking every day can keep the doctor away
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, April 06, 2015. Walking every day can keep the doctor away. Last Wednesday was proclaimed National Walking Day by the American Heart Association. It’s a day when we are all encouraged to lace up our sneakers, get up and walk for at least 30 minutes. Walking is still considered the best exercise to maintain a healthier lifestyle. Such as a family ...
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Healthy Living: Staying hydrated is key to good health
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, June 29, 2015. Staying hydrated is key to good health. A person can survive for a few miserable weeks without food, but only about 4-5 days without water. Here are some interesting facts: Did you know that the human brain is about 75 percent water? Even our bones are almost 22 percent water, while our hearts are 79 percent water. The most common ...
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Healthy Living: Summer is the time to get schooled on sun safety
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Summer is the time to get schooled on sun safety. School may be out, but it’s time to brush up on your skin ABC's in sun safety summer school! Is the mole the same on one side as it is on the other or is it uneven? Asymmetry can be a sign of a cancerous lesion. Does is have a well defined border or is the border fuzzy or unclear?
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Healthy Living: Anxious times call for relaxing measures
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, March 02, 2015. Anxious times call for relaxing measures. A certain amount of anxiety can be a good thing. It can make us more alert and energized to deal with a stressful situation. But if anxiety becomes overwhelming, it can take a real toll on our health. That may be the time to seek professional help. 1) Just say no to drugs. 2) Ask for help.
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Healthy Living: How to lose weight — and celebrate your success
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Doctors and clinicians at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., offer useful advice about medical issues that matter to you and your family. Monday, July 20, 2015. How to lose weight and celebrate your success. It’s very hard work to lose weight, as many of us are well aware. Between Jazzercise and Thin’s In, in the past 6 months I have lost 35 pounds, with six more to lose to reach my goal weight. I took that as a reward for the hard work of weight loss. Exercise is a crucial component for g...
