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Doctors say it’s time to get your flu shot

Melody G. Gillette

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Healthy Living: Doctors urge people to get flu shot

October marks the beginning of flu season, and doctors have a simple message for you and your family: it’s time to get your flu shot.

“Getting a shot” seems to be a phrase we’ve heard daily the past several months, but doctors are now asking people to roll up their sleeves for a reason other than COVID-19.

October marks the beginning of flu season, and doctors have a simple message for you and your family:  it’s time to get your flu shot.

This year the concern about the flu is higher. With pandemic restrictions easing, we are seeing more people gathering, and heading back to work.

As a result, many areas are seeing a rise in covid infection rates, and now with the flu taking hold, it’s a major health concern.

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Time, How To Watch NFL Games Live For Free

Melody G. Gillette

Live from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, the Chiefs host the Cleveland Browns in a battle between potential AFC heavyweights.

Who’s in the mood for a Week 1 playoff rematch? Last season, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs eliminated Baker Mayfield and the Browns from the playoffs after a hard-fought 22-17 victory. It’s difficult to predict how far Cleveland will go in 2021. The AFC North is never easy, but this year it looks especially rough. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens are always formidable, and even the Bengals have the potential to be dangerous if Joe Burrow can stay healthy. These two teams squared off during the 2020 NFL playoffs. Can lightning strike twice?

From start time to streaming information, here’s how to watch the Browns-Chiefs game live online.

WHAT TIME DOES IS THE CHIEFS VS BROWNS GAME ON TODAY?

This afternoon’s game begins at 4:25 p.m. ET on CBS

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It’s time for a gut check on preventing illness: Laurel Hopwood

Melody G. Gillette

Guest columnist Laurel Hopwood, RN, BSN, volunteers with Cleveland Ohio Patient Advocates (COPA).

Picture a busy city where people are hustling to get to work. Now imagine this at a level only seen through a microscope. Not thousands, millions or billions of commuters. Rather, trillions of bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses doing their jobs.

Known as the microbiome, these miniscule microbes are traveling inside our bodies — primarily in the stomach and intestines.

Some may not consider this a subject for the dinner table. But perhaps it should be. Why?

It’s well documented that a healthy microbiome helps to build a strong immune system and protect us against pathogens. How about a win-win scenario in which people make food choices with the goal of having a healthy microbiome and thus reducing their risk of any illness — including COVID-19?

Probiotic foods contain beneficial live microbiota that can improve one’s microbiome.

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GreenStreet Merges Wellness and Work with June 10 Opening of Life Time in Downtown Houston | State

Melody G. Gillette

HOUSTON, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — At a time when consumers are reshaping how they live, work and play with a renewed focus on health, Life Time, the nation’s premier healthy lifestyle brand, today opened its newest luxury athletic club and premium coworking space at GreenStreet.

For the first time, Downtown Houston will have healthy living, entertainment and experiences, combined with a high-end coworking space intentionally designed to promote a healthy and fulfilling work life as part of Lionstone Investments and Midway’s mixed-use GreenStreet complex encompassing four city blocks.

“Life Time GreenStreet will be an urban country club for Downtown Houston, meeting the changing needs of consumers and their live, work and play lifestyle,” said Bahram Akradi, Life Time Founder, Chairman and CEO. “The Midway team has done a phenomenal job of reimagining what urban living can be with culture, creativity and innovation at GreenStreet. Coupled with

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