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Barchester Healthcare Health & Safety Team response to Covid-19 – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

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Continuity Planning? Thinking back to Monday 16th March 2020 I remember getting up early. I was due to visit one of our homes in Tewkesbury. I was just about to leave the house when an email landed from a senior Director telling us all to ‘Hold’ all visits and be ready for a conference call that morning. Yes, this was the start of the ‘Lock Down’. With the benefit of insight, how ready were we for what was about to happen next? Our management team had already undertaken various strategic planning exercises. On the 16thth March, a ”strategic executive team”…

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Ukraine is rushing uniforms for female soldiers after complaints that poor-fitting men’s clothes are holding them back on the battlefield

Ukrainian cadets wearing new military uniforms designed for women take part in a training session at a shooting range outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, in July 2023.STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images Ukrainian female soldiers say they struggle with men’s baggy uniforms and equipment. The military is now testing clothing specifically for female soldiers, officials and reports said. But for now, soldiers must rely on volunteers to get uniforms that fit, stand-to-pee tubes, and boots. Ukraine’s military is rushing to get dedicated uniforms for its female soldiers after complaints of poor sizing of men’s clothing holding them back on the battlefield. Ukraine’s defense…

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Grocery prices making healthy food unaffordable for BC families, report says

Many BC families in lower-income households cannot afford to have healthy, nutritious diets due to food costs. A BC Center for Disease Control report, Food Costing in BC 2022found that the average cost for a nutritious diet for a family of four in May and June 2022 was $1,263 per month. “Food insecurity is a significant public health issue,” said Dr. Geoff McKee, BC Center for Disease Control’s medical director of population and public health. “The price of food does not affect everyone equally and the root cause of household food insecurity is low income.” 1:55 Restaurants face a new…

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Swimming and skin: What to know if a child has eczema

A great warm weather activity requires a few adjustments for children who have eczema. Swimming is a great activity for children. It’s good exercise, it’s an important safety skill, and it can be a good way to get outside and get some fresh air and sunshine. But for children with eczema — also known as atopic dermatitis — swimming can be complicated. Here’s how parents can help. What is eczema? Eczema is an allergic condition of the skin. It can be triggered by allergies to things in the environment, like pollen or cats, as well as by allergies to food.…

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Low carb vs low fat diets? What’s better in middle age?

Share on PinterestExperts recommend diets of lean meats and vegetables in older adults. Mental Art + Design/Stocksy Researchers report that a healthy low-fat diet can lower the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and early death in middle-aged and older adults. They say a healthy low-carbohydrate diet can slightly lower the risk of early mortality in that age group. Experts say weight and diet become more important as you age, so selecting a healthy eating plan is vital. Diets low in fat and carbohydrates can improve the health of middle-aged and older adults, a new study is reporting. Short-term clinical trials…

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‘Fat Talk’ author Virginia Sole-Smith explains how diet culture can hurt kids : Shots

By the time they entered kindergarten, most American children believed that being “thin” made them more valuable to society, writes journalist Virginia Sole-Smith. By middle school, Sole-Smith says, more than a quarter of kids in the US will have been put on a diet. Sole-Smith produces the newsletter and podcast Burnt Toastwhere she explores fatphobia, diet culture, parenting and health. In her new book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, she argues that efforts to fight childhood obesity have caused kids to absorb an onslaught of body-shaming messages. “The chronic experience of weight stigma … is similar…

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Coconut Orange Breakfast Bars – JennifersKitchen

One thing I do not do: Spend more than 10 minutes in the morning preparing breakfast. When it’s breakfast time, I want to eat – not measure, stir, cook, chop, or bake. That means that make-ahead breakfasts are a regular part of my meals. Preparing breakfast ahead of time means that either my crockpot or my freezer always has something delicious waiting for me in the morning. Like these Coconut Orange Breakfast Bars. Naturally sweet, these Coconut Orange Breakfast Bars are packed with both flavor and nutrition. And they’re freezer-friendly, so you can have a stash in the freezer for…

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7 Things That Ruin a Healthy Salad

Salads may not be as American as apple pie, but plenty of people report eating them regularly: four times a week, on average, according to a poll commissioned last year by Fresh Express and conducted by OnePoll. More than half of the 2,000 US adults polled — 62 percent — said that salads are part of their regular diet. It’s a little puzzling to reconcile those numbers with the staggering rates of obesity in this country, but then, the health value of a salad really depends on quality rather than quantity. While salad — usually conceived as a big bowl…

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Strong, steady friendships may be an asset to your physiological health, study shows

Sign up for CNN’s Adulthood, But Better newsletter series. our seven-part guide has tips to help you make more informed decisions around personal finance, career, wellness and personal connections. CNN — Good friends and good physical health may be even more closely linked than previously thought, new research has found. Researchers discovered that positive social experiences impact not only a person’s stress level and ability to cope, but also markers of physical health, according to a study published Monday in the journal Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The study followed more than 4,000 people over three weeks as they…