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Laughter is the Best Medicine!

A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after. Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.

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Mental Health

Mental Illness is a harsh reality to some. Many people feel that because there are no lab test, x-ray or physical manifestation of mental illness means that it is not real. The whole truth is that it is real.

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Quote for the Week

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

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Six Year Old Survived Sandy Hook School Shooting by “Playing Dead”

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.

December 17, 2012

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A six year old girl was able to escape the fatal Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting by pretending to be dead. According to ABC News, the unidentified child was the lone survivor of the two first grade classrooms where Adam Lanza allegedly took the lives of her 20 fellow classmates. The child’s pastor Jim Solomon, […]