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Harvest of the Month: Cabbage

Green vegetables are typically served with the promise that they’re good for you. Cabbage thoroughly delivers on that promise. An antioxidant that’s high in Vitamins K and C and packed...

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Decoding Benefits Acronyms and Abbreviations

Benefits documents sometimes seem to be nothing but a bunch of bewildering acronyms strung together. But the meanings behind those letters should be anything but bewildering because they represent key...

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Strengthen your heart

If a man’s body had an engine, it would be the heart. And everyone knows an engine won’t operate if it’s neglected. That’s why it’s essential that men do what...

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Men’s Top Health Concerns

It’s common knowledge that women outnumber men in the U.S. population. What is less known is that more males are born each year than females. Why does this balance shift?...

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Your Benefits: Emergency Care and Urgent Care

When a pressing medical condition presents itself, your first thought usually isn’t, “What will my healthcare benefits cover?” But that often will be your second or third thought, and knowing...

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Harvest of the Month: Peaches

While Americans crave the annual arrival of fresh peaches each mid-to-late summer, the Chinese once believed the gods waited even longer: According to legend, they held a special Feast of...

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Accidents Happen. Here’s How to Respond

We think of our homes as safe places, but the National Safety Council reports that more than half of all injury-involved accidents happen at home. That’s why familydoctor.org says, “You...

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Be Prepared With a Home First Aid Kit

In many households, responding to an injury means scurrying around to a half-dozen places searching for whatever is needed to help the injured person … and then realizing you don’t...

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How You Pay for Healthcare

Paying for healthcare can be confusing. It’s one of the few things we purchase without knowing what we’re going to pay until days, weeks or even months after we receive...

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Tech-Assisted Time Management

One of the great promises of technology is that it can save us time. But it also can be good at helping us manage our time. Some of the ways...

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