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Pool Safety

Always watch young children while they are swimming or playing in or around water. Teach your children to swim.....

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Prevent Falling

Here are some tips to help prevent falling around the house: Install grab bars in showers and tubs. Use nonslip........

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Poison Prevention

Make sure your child does not have access to peeling paint or chewable surfaces painted with lead-based paint. Use and store chemicals, household cleaning products and........

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Fire Deaths and Injuries: Prevention Tips

Never leave food unattended on a stove. Keep cooking areas free of flammable objects (such as, potholders and towels). Avoid wearing clothes with long, loose-fitting sleeves when........

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Secondhand smoke refers to tobacco smoke that is passively breathed in by people in the vicinity of a person who is smoking. Terms that have been used to refer to secondhand smoke are passive smoking, involuntary smoking, or environmental........

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Effective Handwashing

Here are the Health Agency of Canada's recommendations for effective handwashing........

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Comfortable Sleeping

Proper sleeping posture is that of sleeping on your side with knees slightly bent. Place a cushion between your knees to take pressure off your lower back and to prevent........

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Taking Care of Your Back at Home

A common misconception about back pain is that you need to rest and avoid activity for a long time. In fact, bed rest is NOT recommended. If you have........

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First Aid Kit

In the event of an emergency, your first aid kit should include the following: ...

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The Healing Power of Nature

In a world increasingly dominated by video games and processed foods - conveniences that typically keep people indoors and sedentary - spending time outdoors is an absolute........

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Store Your Plates Upside Down

Things that crawl around in the dark - cockroaches, flies, mice and rats come to mind - will walk across the top of a pile of plates and climb into open pots and pans. Some carry........

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A fascinating use for bananas

A splinter under your skin will eventually come out by itself, but in the mean time you risk infection. The enzymes in a banana peel cause a drawing action that will pull a splinter from your skin ......

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Get Enough ZZZZZs

Research has shown that not getting enough sleep increases the body’s levels of the stress hormone, cortisol. Cortisol not only increases........

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Sleep to Protect Yourself From Colds

A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that those that slept less than 7 hours a night were 3 times more likely to be the victim........

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Could Your Marriage be Killing you?

Heart disease and stroke are the leading killers of both men and women. A history of divorce is associated with coronary disease. This finding led........

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Potential Carcinogens in Cling Wrap

Plastic wrap contains chemicals that cause it to "cling" to things. These chemicals can get into food the plastic is wrapped around, especially in the case of........

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How Long Should It Take To Fall Asleep

Normally, a person falls asleep within 20 minutes of going to bed. If you fall asleep less than 7 minutes after going to bed, you are suffering from sleep deprivation. ...

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Chemicals in the Home 101

House dust is full of many toxic substances. Children ingest 5 times more of it than adults. This exposes children to the same level of chemicals (benzo(a)pyrene) as........

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A Good Reason To Have House Plants

House plants help clean the air - some have been shown to absorb up to 80% of the formaldehyde in a room within 24 hours. ...

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Water and Chloroform

Improve the ventilation in your kitchen, bathrooms with showers, and where you wash your clothes. Most people's highest exposure to chloroform is via water vapour........

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