As if the story about the college student who lost her leg due to a strange flesh-eating bacteria wasn’t scary enough, now there is another case reported of the same bacteria. This type of bacteria, necrotizing fasciitis, is extremely dangerous and claims the lives of 25% of the people who get it. All the more reason to make sure you know the warning signs. Lana Kuykendall , a South Carolina mom who just delivered twins last week is in critical condition while battling...
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• Yoga ”rockstars”: physically amazing human beings…or big jerks? ( YogaDork ) • Speaking of yoga rockstars…yoga is getting its first reality show called–get this–Rock Your Yoga ( Well&Good ) • So, that TIME magazine article that everyone’s all up in arms about? Yeah, it’s not what you think ( The Stir ) • Poverty: the perfect, horrible, obesity-causing storm ( HuffPost Healthy Living ) • Olympic swimmer Dara Torres...
Remember when everyone was freaking out about the “new trend” of teens drinking hand sanitizer , which is not even remotely new? Those were fun times–but, it turns out, there’s something way worse to be worried about: Teens buying alcohol online and having it delivered to them . But then, you probably could have asked any teen and they would have told you that duh, ordering booze over the internet is no sweat. According to a study by researchers...
Remember Patricia Krentcil , a.k.a. “tan mom”? Of course you do. Well, amidst all of the controversy and backlash over her arrest for taking her 5-year-old tanning with her, there is something good that actually came out of this: a revived push for anti-tanning laws for minors. New Jersey lawmakers are hoping all of this attention will renew the proposed law to make it illegal for teens to use an indoor tanning salon. Apparently an old bill is being reintroduced that...
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Judging by current U.S. political debates, you might think women’s reproductive health wasn’t a huge priority for governments. But the U.N. would like to tell world leaders that they do, indeed, need to wake up and take birth control more seriously, especially when it comes to young women. At last week’s Commission of Population and Development, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon explained in a speech that he believes the U.N. (of which the U.S. has been a member...
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