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Health & Home
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Selling Healthy
Remaking school lunches to be healthier is a big challenge, but small victories are starting to emerge
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Container Gardens
Are you infamous for turning healthy houseplants into withered stalks? Do you have a knack for over-watering and under-fertilizing?
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New School, New Menu
When Spokane Schools’ Nutrition Services Director Doug Wordell needs ideas and inspiration about how to make small changes that make a big difference, he looks to Spokane Schools’ new project-based high school, The Community School.
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Resting Uneasily
Sleep apnea can cause more than daytime fatigue
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Vertical Gardening
When developers want to maximize land use without increasing their physical footprint, they start building upward. The same goes for gardeners.
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Studying Spokane
One third-year med student relishes his time at UW East
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Tapping into Healthy Food
The Manito Tap House offers fresh food for unique diners
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Community Gardens
If your backyard or balcony isn’t an ideal growing spot, or if you want to supplement the bounty of your home garden with greater variety, consider joining a community garden.
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Seeds of Good Health
Studies show gardening at any age will keep your disposition sunny
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From the Editor
Simple and Real
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Special Needs
Pediatric specialists are in short supply
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Getting Back Up Again
At age 5, Bonnie St. John’s leg was amputated, but that didn’t stop her from going on to win three medals in ski racing at the 1984 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
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What's a Parent to do?
How to talk to your kid about drugs and alcohol.
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Dr. Craig Panos
U.S. Ski Team physician and a sports and concussion medicine specialist at Kootenai Health
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Derailed Dreams
When cancer hits young adults, the effects ripple outward
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Babies Really Suck!
Ask Dr. Matt
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Early Exposure
Does not allowing children to have alcohol just make them want it more?
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Ancient Rhubarb Secrets
This hardy, cold-season perennial is one of spring’s first edible harvests in the Inland Northwest.
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Ever Ready
What happens after you dial 911?
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Another Take on Tylenol
In the past few years, several studies have demonstrated a possible association between asthma and the use of acetaminophen (Tylenol).
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Substantive Discussion
Teens face a complicated world of prescription drugs, alcohol and marijuana — how well are we preparing them?
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Let Growth Bloom
Just as a seed may struggle to sprout and take root in the crack of a sidewalk, we may struggle with challenges that seem determined to keep us from blossoming.
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Morality Tales
It could be some of the most minor roles in crime dramas that make the biggest difference to the viewer, according to new research from Washington State University.
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Big Pill on Campus
Adderall represents the dark side of working too hard
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Warrior Training
Kids have been confounding their parents since forever. What’s relatively new is book after book claiming to explain it all.