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Well Being

Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce

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CCISD innovators bring real world experience into the classroom.

Nobody enjoys test taking. Memorizing data and filling in little bubbles with number two pencils may help simplify grading and standardize achievement, but we all know there’s much more required to achieve success in the real world.

Lessons in Love and Loss

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Students and teachers remember a beloved Seabrook Intermediate School teacher and friend.

Most of us have had a teacher who helped us to see the world differently, instilled in us a desire to learn, and inspired us to improve the community we live in. The influence of a teacher like this lasts forever.

Tiny Grains of Goodness

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Rice, teenagers, and a desire to serve help feed the hungry and nourish the spirit of volunteerism.

Enthusiasm is contagious, especially among teenagers. When kids get excited about something, it’s impossible to hold them back. At St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Nassau Bay, the 33-member youth group is gearing up for another of its monthly service projects, and they can hardly wait to get going.

Pioneering “New” Medicine

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$32 million scientific study holds promise for low cost, less invasive, effective treatment for cardiovascular disease.

Years from now—25, 50, maybe even 75—today’s diseases could be a thing of the past but today heart disease, cancer, and diabetes still cause too many untimely deaths. Medical pioneers like Dorothy Merritt, MD are impatient with conventional boundaries.

LiveWell Women’s Conference Coming May 16

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CHRISTUS St. John helps women focus on their own health, well-being through CHRISTUS LiveWell Network

Many women are so good at taking care of everyone else that they put their own health and well being at the bottom of their priority list.

Colorectal Cancer Prevention

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Everything you need (but may not want) to know about this deadly yet avoidable disease.

In February 2012 a major study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, confirmed that colonoscopy screening can prevent cancer and save lives. In fact, it cut the death rate from the disease by half.

Heart Health for a Lifetime

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Prevention, lifestyle, and cardiology care are key to wellness.

The statistics are heartbreaking: Cardiovascular disease continues to be the number one killer in the U.S., causing about 2200 deaths each day in this country. The direct and indirect costs of cardiovascular disease and stroke are skyrocketing—about $300 billion annually.

Lifestyle and Science: Hope for Healthy Hearts

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Dr. Ken Fujise shares secrets to longevity, plus latest advances in stem cell research.

Early to bed, early to rise—everyone knows that old adage. Not many of us take it to heart. Japanese-born Dr. Ken Fujise does. He spent his childhood in Yamagata with his grandfather, who was in the Japanese Navy.

From Slaves to Settlers

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Butler’s black cowboys leave League City to establish The Settlement.

Part II in a series exploring the history and growth of League City—its people, businesses, and landscape. Last month, we shared the story of George Washington Butler, founding father of League City and larger than life visionary that laid the foundation of this bustling city by the Bay.

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Book Reviews

A Perfect Gift for Every Husband

How to Speak Womanese is intended to guide men through the emotional complexity of a woman's world. This book provides playful distinctions that will promote uncommon conversations and openings for what's possible in the untamed territory of woman to man communication.