Older cyclists pedal for fitness
Published on 02:00 17-Nov-2009 in Fitness, LifeVictoria Emanuelli practiced pedaling her blue bike - a castoff from one of her grandchildren - in the carpeted hallways of her retirement community. Ben Morelli is under doctor's orders to cool it, but he still zips around the wide roads...
Will we believe the stats or trust our mothers?
Published on 02:00 17-Nov-2009 in Health/Science, Sheehan, Fitness, Local/State, Life, News, Home PageChelsea Gibbs was a teenager when her mother taught her the importance of monthly breast self-exams. Forgive her if she's less than impressed with new guidelines that defy her mother's advice and 40 years of public health education. At 23...
Mixed marriages welcome
Published on 02:00 12-Nov-2009 in Family, Religion, Fitness, LifeThe two couples had never met, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies. But Elie Wakim and Nada Ghamloush from Lebanon, and Dimitri Stafeev and Olga Zaytseva from Israel had a probl...
Farmer brings a message on food
Published on 02:00 9-Nov-2009 in Wake County, Fitness, Food, Local/State, Life, Business, News, Home PageWill Allen, an urban farmer and MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner, is in Raleigh tonight delivering this message: We need to act now to fix a food system that is broken. "I'm asking people to join the revolution," Allen said during...
Vaccination for flu finds a believer
Published on 02:00 3-Nov-2009 in Health/Science, Sheehan, Fitness, Local/State, Life, NewsBarely had the H1N1 vaccination been sent into production when the alarm bells began to sound. The country's moving too fast! The vaccination isn't safe! (Ah, the poor public health folks never can win.) But if there's one man who is con...
The aging turn to nurturing spirit and community
Published on 02:00 2-Nov-2009 in Health/Science, Nation/World, Local/State, Life, News, Home Page, FitnessThe first part of life is for growing and the next is for striving, for making a living and maybe a family. Then, say growing numbers of older people in North Carolina and elsewhere, it's time for being. Specifically, for being spiritual....
Big bills follow ER visits
Published on 02:00 2-Nov-2009 in Health/Science, Local, Nation/World, Local/State, Politics, News, Home Page, Life, FitnessEditor's note: This fall, The N&O is talking to people about the nation's health care system: what works, what doesn't and what should be done to fix it. With her diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol under control, Gail Johnson...
Orange clinics to offer H1N1 flu shots today
Published on 02:00 23-Oct-2009 in Health/Science, Orange County, Local/State, News, Life, FitnessOrange County residents at high risk of complications from the H1N1 flu virus can get vaccinated today at the county health department, officials announced Thursday. The walk-in clinics will start at 1:30p.m. and last until vaccine suppli...
Beginning Christianity
Published on 02:00 22-Oct-2009 in Religion, Fitness, LifeAt a small group meeting devoted to the subject of prayer, members shared their fumbling attempts to perform that most basic of Christian rites. One man said he was so eager to impress his fiancée he prayed for "everything but the ki...
No mountain high enough
Published on 02:00 13-Oct-2009 in Fitness, LifeKaren Hertlein says she doesn't know how old she is. She hasn't kept track since middle school. "My grandma never did, and I don't either. She said it's a good way to remain ageless and not worry about where you are in life," Hertlein sai...
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