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Winter started early this year, and if it’s like last year, we can expect a long and cold one. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, external cold attacks the surface
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What one health care change would dramatically improve poor people’s chances of surviving cancer, bring health costs down, and improve physician effectiveness? The
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There was a not-very-funny story that made its way through my family when I was a child: A woman tells the neighbor boy that his father’s illness is all in his head. A few
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Summer has come to a close. The bewitching beauty, the ripe moments, the delicious episodes of gustatory emotion; the small side diversions. The love affairs of 2014 have
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If you attended Cincy Summer Streets in Northside, you witnessed—and maybe participated in—all kinds of activity, from walking, bike riding, and dancing all the way to
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"Successful friends, parents or lovers have that certain something that makes communication flow in difficult as well as in easy times. Rapport building is a skill that can be learned. It involves reading body language, hearing and using the other person’s language style preferences, and pacing in such a way that the interaction feels like a mutual dance. It proves invaluable in all interpersonal relationships in one’s professional and personal life."
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It is the time of year when I have a continually full basket of tomatoes on my kitchen floor. At any time, there are at least twenty-five tomatoes (and often double that amount) of every variety. For the past several years, I’ve had a lot of success with my tomato crops, in spite of battles with blights, bugs, wilts and other fun things. I fight the good fight.
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"what we don’t know about any given person or situation far exceeds what we presume to actually know. Perspective, in my opinion, is markedly derived from individual human experience. It makes concepts like "food gentrification" less relevant and basic ideas like "human compassion" more urgent. (Of course, at the end of the day, I believe it's all intertwined.)"
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"Despite our vast generational and cultural differences, we cultivate an unassuming and organic kinship, and I hold strong to my belief that food is better served, shared."
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There’s lots of talk and concern about stress. Sometimes we act as if stress were an affliction of this generation (that is, of your generation). Cognitively, we know
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