Smart Summer Snacks From The Food Guide Pyramid
Practical guidance on healthy snacks using whole grain, fruit, vegetable, dairy and protein options. Includes tips on timing, nutrition, and hydration, with simple recipes like Orange Julius, Super Shake, and layered yogurt pops. The columnist notes vegetarian-friendly, kid-friendly ideas and warns about concentrated sugars.
Water safety tips to prevent pool tragedies
A pediatrician from The Children’s Mercy Hospital emphasizes constant supervision and basic swimming skills. The column lists safety steps including certified lessons, buddy systems, lifeguard supervision, fenced pools, no unsupervised water for older children, reading posted rules, avoiding water during lightning, and cautious use of inner tubes for non-swimmers.
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Children's Mercy Hospital
Laura Fitzmaurice
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National Safety Week Highlights Bike Safety Drives
PHASEcs’s Handlebar Helpers program backs National Safety Week in Kansas with bike safety education. The piece urges proper bike fit, helmet use, visibility, training wheels until safe riding, traffic rules, and enrollments in safety clinics to reduce ER visits. Contact PHASEcs at (913)242-0005 for more information.
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Kansas Health Foundation
Ransom Memorial Hospital
American National Standards Institute
ANSI
Snell
Sugar labeled foods explained and age friendly exercise advice
The article clarifies no sugar added sugarless and sugar free labels and notes sugar is sugar regardless of source. It also reports a Duke study showing aerobic exercise benefits for older adults and recommends medical clearance plus moderate, low impact activity for seniors. Betty Gibb invites reader questions.
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James Blumenthal
Duke University
Betty Gibb
Kansas Senior Press Service
S. Sunset
Olathe
Shingles drug rejected by FDA advisers
Government advisers rejected sorivudine as a shingles treatment saying the drug poses a death risk from lethal interactions and offers no clear advantage over existing therapies. Bristol-Myers Squibb had argued a once daily dose could speed relief and reduce daily doses but failed to convince panel members.
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Japan
Bristol-Myers Squibb
U.S
Bristol-Myers
Food and Drug Administration
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