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Start Early: Practical Ways to Support Your Child’s Immune System Before School Starts By Annie DePasquale, MD — Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician and Founder/CEO Collaborating Docs
Back-to-school season is the perfect time to tune up healthy habits. Think of your child’s immune system like a team: sleep, nutrition, movement, and handwashing are the starters; smart supplementation can be the bench that helps you through the long season. Here’s how vitamins D and C, elderberry, and a probiotic can fit into a simple, safe routine—plus what to watch for. Vitamin D: the quiet powerhouse Vitamin D helps immune cells communicate and may reduce the risk or severity of some infections. Because kids spend much of the day indoors (and sunscreen, rightly, blocks UV), vitamin D is the supplement most children are likely to need. Vitamin C: best…
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Fort Worth voted Texas’s second best city overall for dining out
A new study has revealed that Fort Worth is the second best city in Texas for dining out. Commercial furniture manufacturer, Restaurant Furniture.Net, determined the American cities with the best dining experiences by analyzing the percentage of reviews for the top 100 restaurants by Tripadvisor rating in each of America’s 100 most populous cities that were positive and mentioned a restaurant’s atmosphere. A review was positive if it had a rating of at least 2.5, and reviews that included at least one of “atmosphere,” “atmospheric,” “ambience,” “ambiance,” “intimate,” or “cozy” were counted as mentioning a restaurant’s atmosphere. The study also found the best restaurants for an amazing dining experience in each city by finding the…
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Strong Today, Strong Tomorrow: Fredericksburg Fitness Studio Champions Healthy Aging for All
Helping people of every age live longer, healthier, more independent lives FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia – (September 10, 2025) – Most people don’t think about healthy aging until the signs of aging appear. When they are young, aging is something so far in the distance that it doesn’t always have an impact on their decisions. As the years pass, we increasingly begin to examine the things we do and the way we live, and wonder if it will help us age healthily. Evaluating what is being done healthily to age and stepping up one’s game to focus on healthy aging may make the difference between being independent or not, and in how long one…
Living a simple lifestyle from the front porch
