Ottawalk Health Program Lets 32 Seniors Walk Together
Ottawalk is a senior health walk program sponsored by Personal Actions Toward Health running May through September at Don Woodward Center with two aerobic classes weekly. It uses a ticket system to track minutes daily and offers monthly luncheons with health talks. The 32 participants included many named seniors.
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Don Woodward Center
PATH
Kansas State University
Coalition
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Franklin County Extension Office
Ottawa Recreation Commission
East Central Kansas Area Agency On Aging
Brenda Pfizenmaier
Rebecca Dillard
Kanza Park
Marian Alderman
Jean Clark
Janice Coombs
Dot Detwiler
Gretchen Gahagan
Mary Lou Gatlin
Jean Geist
Mid Gibson
Carolyn Gleason
Karen Harshaw
Evaline Hazen
Treva Hunt
Frances Jones
Verna Jones
Reta Knight
Virginia Loyd
Brenda Lockaby
Pat Maxwell
Nellie Miller
Maxine Moore
Nora Ogle
Donna Rich
Dean Royse
Mary Royse
Linda Rumford
Alberta Smith
Pat Stenzel
Betty Sutton
Carolyn Turley
Irene Unruh
Maxine White
Jean Ann Wood
EPA launches campaign on dangers of second hand smoke
Washington AP report says EPA with AAP ALAI and other groups launches a $1.5 million effort to persuade parents to smoke outdoors to shield children from bronchitis pneumonia wheezing ear infections and asthma. A new survey shows 70 percent of smoking parents would move outside to protect kids.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
Consumer Federation of America
National Association of Counties
Jack Gillis
Margarine recall for unlabeled dairy ingredient
About 3,600 pounds of Fleischermanns unsalted margarine are recalled after whey, a dairy ingredient, was found not on the label. ConAgra Dairy Foods of Downers Grove Illinois reports one reaction and warns dairy allergic individuals may risk severe responses, while others face no risk.
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Washington
Fleischmann
ConAgra Dairy ‘Foods
Downer’s Grove
Ill
ConAgra
Brain training offers hope to curb learning disorders
Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich says targeted computer games can retrain brain regions to aid dyslexia and similar disabilities. MRI evidence shows auditory areas normalize after about 60 hours of training, and the approach may extend to autism and schizophrenia by addressing brain plasticity rather than genes alone.
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Washington
Michael Merzenich
Merzenich
University of California
San Francisco
National Institutes of Health
Harvard Medical School
Carla Shatz
California
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