It has been two years since the Boston Marathon bombings. Bostonians have not forgotten the three who died and more than 280 injured. Bostonians recognize and remember the day their city was attacked. And it’s okay to feel a little off in the days leading up to and on this year’s marathon, according to Dr. Kermit Crawford, associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Resiliency Center of Boston Medical Center for Boston Marathon survivors.
“We are all impacted in some way,’’ Crawford said of what happened on April 15, 2013.
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Category: Health News
How to Combat the Winter Weight Blues
Fear not, Boston, spring is coming.
Unfortunately, we still have a little bit of winter left to endure, but Sarah Larocque, a registered dietitian at Mount Auburn Weight Management Center, spoke to Boston.com about how to get our bodies through it.
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In Boston, Preventing Substance Abuse Starts in Middle School
On Tuesday, Mayor Marty Walsh announced a pilot drug prevention program for seventh graders across Boston Public Schools. Too Good for Drugs will provide 10 one-hour sessions with trained prevention professionals.
“The curriculum will include good decision-making, resisting peer pressure, and cultivating healthy communication and relationships with others,’’ Walsh said in a press release. “It emphasizes the pertinent information Boston youth will need to understand the negative consequences of alcohol and drug use.’’
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‘Orange Is The New Black’ Star Uzo Aduba Will Run Marathon
Attention all OITNB fans!
Uzo Aduba, most well-known for playing “Crazy Eyes’’ on the Netflix hit show, “Orange Is The New Black,’’ will run in the 2015 Boston Marathon in support of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The actress hails from Medfield, Mass. and is a 2005 graduate of Boston University, where she majored in classical voice in the College of Fine Arts and sprinted on the track team. In 2014, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Plank Your Way to Health This Thanksgiving
The plank is cool now, folks — no more visions of pain and suffering during middle school gym class. The Boston Public Health Commission has found a way to make doing the plank fun, social and … gratifying?
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‘Mighty Mom’ Breast Pumping Toolbelt Wins MIT Hackathon
The results of MIT’s Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon are in.
More than 150 breast pump users, engineers, designers, health care and lactation specialists, as well as educators, converged at the MIT Media Lab for two days of hacking, collaborating and deliberating about how to create a better breast pump.
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Katie Levingston Gill 