Currently, the campers meet on hospital property, a convention which may change down the road. Another change may be in the area of scheduling. Some parents have requested the camp be held more than one session per summer. To accommodate them, the five-day program may soon be reduced to three, but the program will take place several times a year. Read more »
Camp HealthRock increased kids’ knowledge of healthful
behaviors by 40 percent during the five-day session.
How do you make a junior wellness program sound like fun? For the staff of Lehigh Valley Hospital Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, part of the answer was to come up with a catchy name. According to the center’s promotional literature, Camp HealthRock is a “place right out of history.” More than 30 fitness professionals help make the camp a summer adventure, and an affordable one at that. About $100 covers everything, including a Camp HealthRock T-shirt. Read more »
South Australians affected by disability are moving into 2005 with a new air of optimism due to the D4D campaign.
Responses so far
We were encouraged to receive a text from the premier on Friday 17th December 24, 2004 saying “My Government is rebuilding disability services. Funding has risen this year and more announcements on the way”. Read more »
The popularity of low carbohydrate nutritional programs is such that demand for varied, tasty, simple low carb recipes is higher than ever. Read more »
It all started about 3:00 a.m. I woke up and walked around the house for a little while. Around 3:15 I went on back to sleep because everything stopped. Well I wasn’t sleep for long because I woke up again feeling small pains. Well, I was about to go back to sleep when something said call your mommy. When I called she was like “let me speak to Dimitri (my husband)”. Read more »
An expanded orgasm is one that feels stronger, deeper, and longer, and seems to spread from the genitals into other parts of the body. A quick way to learn the art of orgasm expansion (which is called “high sex” in the islands). Read more »
I am not going to renew my subscription to a well-known and popular fitness magazine because it consistently only puts on its cover thin-to-anorexic-looking models who do not reflect the diversity of sizes possible even among healthy individuals.
Osteoporosis is more common in Westernized countries where calcium intake and consumption of dairy products is high compared to the rest of the world. It is comparatively rare in rural subsistence cultures, even though calcium intakes are much lower. Lifestyle factors such as physical activity, lower protein intake, little alcohol consumption and the rarity of smoking may offer protection to people in these populations. Read more »
Most people reach for a glass of milk or wedge of cheese to meet their calcium needs, but dairy products do not necessarily contain more calcium than plant-based foods, and may actually inhibit your body’s absorption of calcium. Surprised? Read on. Read more »
A new test may improve screening for cervical cancer, especially among older women. Two recent studies published in the Jan. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association show the test to be more effective at predicting malignancies than the standard Pap test.
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