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 Monitoring your child’s diet and limiting sugar intake can help protect the child from cavities.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers these suggestions to promote healthier teeth:
- Offer only water or low-fat milk to your child, instead of soda or juice.
- Skip meals and snacks that pack a lot of added sugar.
- Allow only sugarless gum.
- Teach your child which foods can harm or help dental health.
- Practice proper dental hygiene among all members of the household.
- Ensure that your child receives proper dental care, starting at a very early age.
Via HealthDay (read more here)
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Did you know you could be eligible to deduct your dental and medical expenses from your taxes?
Fox Carolina shares a great tip on the details of how to do just that:
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 Year after year this is a sold-out event! There’s dinner, dancing, live entertainment, silent auction and more. All in celebration of creating and sharing: our work and mission; our donors and volunteers; and — most importantly — the lives saved and improved because of everyone’s effort.
Last year the Upstate Heart Ball raised over $263,000 to continue research and educational programs across the Upstate. This include cardiovascular research and education, building awareness and understanding of the American Heart Association.
This year Dr. Thomas and staff are contributing an Italian ceramic table to the auction. This was custom designed in Florence, Italy just for the event, including a small, token heart on one corner.
The Ball is Saturday, March 24, 2012. To attend, donate, or learn more, visit the Upstate Heart Ball.
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Guest post by our gardener, Barb Tewell:
There are a few rules to saving that gorgeous amaryllis flower you received for the holidays. I just wait til April and plant them in a sunny spot in my yard and watch them grow and bloom. They require NO care in the yard! And they grow large and stay straight and produce 4-6 large blooms on each stem!!
If you wish to have the amaryllis bloom next year for the holidays in your house, there are a few simple things to do.
- Remove the flower stalk when blooms die. The strap-like leaves will begin to appear. At this time you may want to feed lightly. Keep in a sunny window until outdoor nighttime temps remain above 50 degrees – and then move outside. Only water when soil is dry. This means when outside, lay pot on its side so excess rain water/irrigation water does not over water the pot.
- The bulb will go dormant – even in the heat of summer! Remove the leaves (early August) when withered and keep the pot (on its side) in the sun. These bulbs do not require cold nor dark for their dormancy.
- In early October, repot into fresh soil; use a new pot if needed. The pot should only be 1-2” wider than the bulb but deep enough for the root system. Remember only 1/3 of the bulb should be above the soil line. Bring indoors.
- Watering ends the dormancy. But do so ONLY when the soil is dry – over watering rots the bulb.
- Late October the flower stalk starts to appear, Move to a sunny location in the house and increase the watering a bit.
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Save your memories this season with these 10 Tips For Better Christmas Photos.
Tips include not making people pose for the camera – be creative and find a natural, what’s happening in the moment shot. Or, take multiple shots so you can pick and choose later the best of. Keep reading…
Have an iPhone? Here’s some extra tips just for better iPhone photos.
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 Merry Christmas from all of us at Dr. Thomas’. We wish the very best Christmas to you and your family. Thank you for sharing this year with us and … Here’s To 2012!
We love hearing from you! Let us know how your spending Christmas this year in the comments.
Note: We will be close Dec 22 at 2pm and re-open on Jan 4th at 8am
Did you miss our Christmas Email? Check it out…
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