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Common Sense CPR provides infant, child, and adult CPR training classes every month in Brooklyn and New York City.  Administering CPR to infants and children is similar to adult CPR with some key differences.

Infant CPR training is offered monthly in Park [...]

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Zombie Video Promotes CPR Training

On October 10, 2012 By

This new Halloween-themed public service video, called The Undeading and produced the Heart and Stroke Foundation Canada, features zombies to promote to use of hands only CPR.

The video demonstrates that hands only CPR is so simple, that even a zombie could do it.  (While the clip shows the victim ‘waking up’ after zombies [...]

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While most industrial food producers have campaigned against it, the following companies have come out in support Proposition 37 in California. Proposition 37, also known as The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, mandates that labeling must indicate whether food is produced using genetic engineering.
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Madison Rose, a shop in Brooklyn, NY that sells used maternity and kids’ clothes, is offering an infant and child CPR training class on Monday, Sept 10th at 6PM.  The class promises to provide instruction on the following:

Provide CPR to infants and children Hands-only CPR Heimlich maneuver What do to in case [...]

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I just got started with week 1 of the flexitarian meal plan, and am cooking up some pretty tasty vegetarian dishes from the Flexitarian Diet Book.

The idea behind Flexitarianism is to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, the amount of meat in one’s diet. Meat-based diets have been linked to [...]

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Running for Beginners

On August 1, 2012 By

Salty Running features articles by and for women looking to improve their training and performance, and offers a free “Running for Beginners”  program that can provide anyone with a good, simple introduction to the sport.

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The BBC in the UK offers a calculator that takes your age, height and weight to help you figure out where you are on the global fat scale.

How the Calculator Works

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As if to prove that CPR training really works, a bystander used CPR to save a runner who had collapsed while running the Market Square Day 10K race in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Seacoast Online reported that a [...]

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More and more people who are concerned with losing weight, reducing the risk of heart disease, or who simply want to eat better and healthy are incorporating Flexitarianism in their meal plans and diet.  Flexitarian advocates eat a primarily vegetarian diet; meat may be included [...]

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Do Brain Trainer Games Work?

On April 24, 2012 By


A friend has looked for ways to improve his memory capacity and cognitive response, and thought that brain trainer games and software might work. As we get older, our brains decline in operating speed and performance. He’s been playing brain trainer games at Lumosity, which advertise that their subscription [...]

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