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Dec 22

Super Tracker Nutrition Tool to Help You Eat Healthy and be Physically Active

As we enter the New Year, Iowans are looking for ways to meet their New Year’s Resolutions. Topping many lists are healthy eating, being active, and managing weight. Introducing SuperTracker…A new online diet and physical activity planning, assessment, and analysis tool. SuperTracker is designed to help people implement the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the 2008 Physical Activity […]

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Dec 21

Announcing Smokefree Teen

  Nearly 90 percent of adult smokers began smoking before they turned 18. And tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death, causing more than 5 million deaths per year worldwide. Telephone quit lines support adult users, 18 and older, yet teens are asking for help. That’s why the National Cancer Institute’s Tobacco Control […]

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Dec 10

Elderly at risk of hospitalizations from key medications

Each year, there are nearly 100,000 emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in U.S. adults aged 65 years or older, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Of the thousands of medications available to patients, a small group of blood thinners and diabetes […]

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Mt Ayr, IA 50824

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