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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 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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Mom Tased 10yr Old Daughter For Making Bad Oatmeal!

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.

June 18, 2013

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This is so not the way to implement discipline to your children. Mom tased 10yr old daughter. Melissa Heale, who works for the Orlando Health and Rehab Center, denied that she purposely shocked the child. The 34-year-old mother told investigators “everyone was just playing around with the taser and when she touched (the child) with […]

I’d Call it Excessive Force: Police Taser Pregnant Woman

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.

April 5, 2013

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We’ve all seen those funny videos on YouTube of people getting tased by cops and usually they deserve it. Rowdy behavior, instigating, touching an officer or making threats in their presence, are all grounds to get a nasty electric shock streaming through your body. But when is using this method of restraint too much? When […]