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Thanks to My Personal Trainer you can be fit again
Like a lot of busy moms, 40-something Christine W. noticed her weight creep up after her children, now ages nine and 12, were born. What also snuck up was her blood pressure…then back pain, then knee pain. Although over the years she had joined a handful of big box gyms and hired personal trainers, nothing seemed to stick for...
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Northeast Ohio cardiologist Dr. Terry Gordon’s new book reveals powerful lessons about the immortal nature of life...and the illusion death
When I picked up Dr. Terry Gordon’s new book No Beginning…No End: A Cardiologist Discovers There Is No Such Thing As Death, I assumed it would be an effort to convince the reader of the existence of an afterlife, perhaps using Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence as a evidence of the soul’s immortality. Yes, there is a bit of that,...
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Goodyear CIO Sherry Neubert is out to save your life, but this time it has nothing to do with tires
Sherry Neubert’s family medical history reads like a Charles Dickens novel: It is the best of times; it is the worst of times. On her father’s side are centenarians; Sherry has attended many family birthday celebrations featuring 100 candles on the cake. On her mother’s side the news is not so good; she has attended many funerals of...
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Reflections
A mirror hangs in a prominent spot in my living room. I pass it several times a day on my way to the kitchen. It is three smallish oval mirrors hinged to one another side to side, enabling one to get a side view of one’s hairdo, if desired. The mirror belonged to my grandmother and hung in her home in a hallway at the bottom of the stairs...
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The Champagne shortage
Since the pandemic began, we’ve been forced to manage without a lot of things. Seeing family and friends, visiting our favorite restaurants and traveling all come to mind. But Champagne? Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse. “With New Year’s Eve being the most popular event to be celebrated with Champagne, second place goes...
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