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For many citizens, the coronavirus pandemic has felt like the first break in their busy life for months – even years. We’re expected to work at such a fast pace in the modern world – all while raising children, keeping up with friends, and visiting family – that there’s barely time to sit back and consider one’s health.
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Like it or not, the COVID-19 pandemic with its veiled threat of forced vaccinations, contact tracing, and genetically encoded vaccines is propelling humanity at warp speed into a whole new frontier—a surveillance matrix—the likes of which we’ve only previously encountered in science fiction.
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It is estimated that 8 out of 10 people suffer from hair problems. Leading factors that threaten hair health are air quality, pollution, environmental factors, genetic factors and diet.
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Do you have sleepless nights? Are you having difficulty falling asleep, forget staying asleep?
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During its struggles with public policies related to tobacco and alcohol, Virginia treated access to marijuana as an even greater threat.
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Skin tags are smooth, extra growths that typically form on the neck, armpits, breasts, inner thigh, and eyelashes, and inside the folds of skin. These expansions are flexible strands of collagen that are embedded within thicker skin regions.
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Cooking outdoors on the grill brings a wave of healthy appetite for most of us. It’s difficult to keep track of our calories and stick to the health goals while the smoky aromas are drifting all around.
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Sweating is a natural function of the human body, allowing a body to cool itself as sweat emerges from glands and evaporates.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is encouraging veterans to take the first step to stop smoking as part of the annual Great American Smokeout to improve their physical and mental health by combining cessation counseling with other VA clinical resources and support.
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The holiday season is upon us, beginning next week with Thanksgiving, the annual feast that normally gets millions of us on the road to head back home, literally and figuratively.
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