Healthy Living
Healthy Living is a weekly news segment, seen Tuesday's on TV5 News at 5:00pm. Local Doctors from Eastern Maine Medical Center discuss important health issues that concern you and your family. For supplemental information, and to review archives, visit the Healthy Living website.
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Healthy Living: National Stress Survey
Recognizing Stress vs. Effectively Addressing Stress By- Dr. David Prescott Stress in America Survey: Each year, the American Psychological Association teams with Harris Interactive Research...
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Healthy Living: Reusable Grocery Bags- Shades of Green?
By- Dr. Amy Movius Environmental awareness has increased dramatically in recent years - globally, nationally, politically and in about any other way one can think of. Some years ago, reusable...
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Healthy Living: Health Benefits from Sitting Down to Family Dinners
By- Dr. Jonathan Wood For some, the term "family dinner"conjures up a picture of Beaver Cleaver and his parents, Ward (in his necktie) and June (with her pearls). That picture is probably...
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Healthy Living: Vitamin D
The New Wonder Vitamin? By- Dr. Joan Marie Pellegrini Most of us learned in school that Vitamin D is important for our bone health and that we get it from being in the sun. This is true. The...
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Healthy Living: Tree Stand Safety
By- Dr. Joan Marie Pellegrini Hunting season has arrived and already we have seen hunters seriously injured because of falls from their tree stand. A quick Google search of tree stand...
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Healthy Living: Sugar Sweetened Drinks
There's More Than Soda By- Dr. Amy Movius Childhood obesity has been recognized as a very important topic in recent years. An estimated 17% of teenagers and children have a BMI-for-age that...
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Health Watch: Social Phobia
By-Dr. David Prescott Social Phobia is a type of Anxiety Disorder: Phobias are intense, excessive fears about certain objects or situations. While most people experience heightened anxiety in...
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Healthy Living
Why do you get a beer belly when you drink beer? By- Dr. Joan Marie Pellegrini There is nothing particularly special about beer that makes it cause a beer belly. A “beer belly” is nothing...
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Healthy Living: Making a Psychologically Healthy Adjustment to School
By- Dr. David Prescott Times of transition are often both rewarding and stressful. The transition to the new school year, while much anticipated, may bring particular challenges for some...
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Healthy Living: Male Pattern Baldness
For millions of american men, with age, hair can thin or fall out and never come back. TV5 health expert Doctor Eric Steele is here to talk about male pattern baldness.For millions of...
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Local Organization Needs Help After Search Efforts
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Red Cross Explains How Mainers Can Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims
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LePage Vows To Veto Hospital Repayment-Medicaid Expansion Bill - $105 Million In Bonds Now In Jeopardy
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Gov. LePage Vetoes College Tobacco Ban
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Concealed Weapons Bill
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Elver Fishing New Regulations Decision Postponed
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Convicted Sex Offender from Charleston Going to Prison for 35 Years
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More Than 100 People Rally Against LePage Budget
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Business Breakfast in Bangor Focuses on Bonds
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Brewers Prepare to "Tap into Summer"
Breaking News from CBS
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Minn. park landslide leaves 1 child dead, 1 missing
Fire official said landslide swept over school children on a field trip, burying one to the waist and completely burying the other
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FBI: Arrest made in Wash. ricin letter scare
Grand jury indictment accuses Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a threatening communication to a U.S. district judge
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Over 50 injured following Ind. school buses crash
A school bus slammed into the back of another, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses
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Victims of deadly Oklahoma tornado
24 people killed after deadly twister touches down in Moore, Oklahoma
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Video: 5/22: Residents return to tornado-ravaged neighborhoods; Undercover in a Bangladesh clothing factory
The sight of the damage caused by Monday's tornado was almost more than some survivors could bear; Also, Lois Lerner, the IRS manager at the heart of the political targeting scandal, delivered an opening statement Wednesday before a congressional committee, but she refused to take any lawmakers' questions; And, Many American clothes come from factories in Bangladesh, which has a history of workplace disasters.