Examiner Awards

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Nutrition Coach blog post – AGE AND WEIGHT GAIN

Is belly fat creeping up on you? It’s possible that it’s not weight gain, but pounds that may have shifted due to hormonal changes, childbirth, or weakening bones. While there is a correlation between gaining weight and growing older, aging itself is not a cause. If it were, everyone over...
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Maximize Your Own Brand with Social Media

In recent years, personal branding has become a professional hot button as the rise of social media technologies has made branding not only more personal, but put it within reach. Personal branding isn’t limited to marketing professionals or business executives. You can create a personal brand whether you’re an at-home...
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Stem cell potential – the wave of the future?

Did you know that our bodies are programmed to live to about 120 years of age?  In reality, however, most life spans are roughly around 80 years.  Successful aging is defined as “changes due solely to the aging process, uncomplicated by damage from environment, lifestyle, or disease” – meaning that...
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Hospice impacts lives, benefits community

For nine years, David and Mary Kee White danced for a good cause at the Big Bad Ball, a fundraiser for area hospice services. “She loved to dance,” said David White, who also has volunteered with Hospice of Wake County for the past 15 years. The two had been high...
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R2-KT – Katie’s Legacy

A long time ago in a hospital far, far away, 6-year-old Katie Johnson was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.  Always eager to get dirty, climb things, scrape her knees, and just run and play, Katie had just finished soccer season when her parents noticed that she was falling down a...
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Warrior Shares His Story – JR Martinez

ABC Daytime television’s All My Children has a history of addressing social issues, recently emphasized when producers wrote in a wounded warrior character, who is played on screen by an actual wounded Iraq veteran. “We wanted to inspire by integrating the story of an actual veteran, someone who brought an...
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