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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
What Are You Waiting For?

Aerial Yoga looks intimidating & complicated to most people. The most common reason that someone does not try this new style of yoga is that they think they cannot do it, or they are not ready for it just yet. They want to get stronger or more flexible first.
Take the time to dive in and you will find that VaihAyasa Aerial Yoga is one of the best ways to find a connection with your body, to build strength and flexibility, and to create space and movement in the body. Once students get started with VaihAyasa, they usually find that it is not so intimidating at all: in fact they tend to find it fun, relaxing, and oh so yummy!

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
Straight To A Woman’s Heart

Millions of women live in denial. If asked ‘what is the number one killer of women in the US,’ few would answer this critical question correctly. Cancer is often the top of the mind response. In reality, cardiovascular disease claims more than 500,000 women’s lives annually, compared to 40,000 women who die each year of breast cancer.

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
How Can You Prevent  An Auto Accident Injury

Of course, the best way to prevent an injury is to avoid having an accident but unfortunately not all accidents are preventable and regardless of how careful we are or how many precautions we take; accidents happen.
Whiplash is the most common injury associated with motor vehicle accidents, affecting up to 83% of those involved in collisions. What is whiplash? What can you do to prevent it, minimize the effects of it and treat it?

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
Now Hiring for New Castle County Area

Come join the Bayada Nurses team and become a hero to a wonderful child in need. We offer the flexible schedules, full benefits, weekly pay and competitive pay rates. At Bayada Nurses our healthcare professionals are dedicated to providing care with Compassion, Excellence and Reliability.

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
Peaceful Parenting Begins with You!

Most pregnant women prepare extensively for childbirth. They research their options, attend classes, and tour birth facilities. They spend a great deal of time maintaining a healthy diet and practicing healthy life style behaviors. Yes, much love and time is invested in pregnancy preparation (as it should be).

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
Bonding

Direct Bonding of tooth colored composite resin, commonly known as “bonding”, is one of several methods available for changing the shape and size of teeth or restoring fractured or decayed teeth. Bonded resin materials chemically adhere to existing tooth structure, both the outer enamel and inner dentin. The advent of this bonding chemistry has made conservative dentistry possible. Formerly the dentist needed to remove healthy tooth structure to create mechanical “locks or undercuts” to retain the filling material. Old silver fillings required this type of mechanical retention. A fractured tooth needed to be further reduced to accept a crown (cap).

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
Personal Care Home Or Nursing Home? What Is The Difference? How Do I Choose?

As the concept of personal care or assisted living has evolved and the number of facilities continues to increase, the public and even some healthcare professionals may have a difficult time differentiating between the two levels of care. Today’s personal care and assisted living communities may provide similar services to a nursing home, however, there are significant and important differences in atmosphere, levels of care and cost. Most importantly, the resident’s long-term health and happiness are affected by the choice.

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
Fibroids

Fibroids are non-cancerous (benign) tumors of the uterus. While many reproductive-age women have uterine fibroids, less than half of these women are symptomatic. Still, hundreds of thousands of doctors’ visits each year are attributed to uterine fibroids and the problems they cause, and more than 600,000 hysterectomies are performed each year in the U.S. as a treatment for fibroids.

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
The Grocery  Store Game

One of the services I offer to my clients is a grocery store tour.

It’s hard enough to know what to eat, let alone navigate the boundless choices at the market, so my experience as a regular person AND a licensed nutritionist enable me to assist individuals with what can be a daunting undertaking. So where does one begin?

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[1 Apr 2012 | No Comment | ]
The Big “C”

For those of you who read my bimonthly column in the Women’s Journal, you are familiar with before and after photos of many of our patients, illustrating the improvements in their smile. In this issue, the after pictures do not illustrate an improvement but rather a very unattractive face. This is a result of surgery to remove a malignant oral cancer tumor.