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Summer Food Safety Tips
Summertime comes along with picnics, barbecues, camping, and other fun activities. However, warm temperatures also increase the risk for foodborne illnesses that can put a damper on summer plans. The following tips will help you and your family enjoy a healthy summer.
1. Wash your hands. Many gastrointestinal illnesses are spread when people do not wash their hands well after using the bathroom. Dirty hands may then contaminate food with bacteria that gets passed on to the next unsusp...
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Health Guide
11 Tips for the safe use, storage, and disposal of Migraine medications.
...you? Should the medication be taken in any particular way -- certain time of day, with or without food? What are the potential side effects? Questions specific to headache and Migraine... Read more »Home Care
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...and changing his diapers. But when he became frustrated one day and started yelling and throwing food at her, she became both terrified and incensed. How could she possibly justify to herself... Read more »Travel to Developing Countries: Traveler's Diarrhea
...a traveler encounters. It is almost always caused from ingesting certain organisms in contaminated food or water. Diarrhea can also be caused -- particularly in children -- by anxiety, stress,... Read more »Images
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