Spring Maintenance Tips

Written by Jordan Walt


NEWS RELEASE Contact: Jordan Walt (503) 653-8287 A.I.C. Insurance Agency Offers Spring Maintenance Tips to Protect Your Home Milwaukie, OR February 1, 2005 – A home is one of life’s most important investments. Keeping it properly maintained can help reducerepparttar risk of a loss and help ensurerepparttar 110370 safety and well being of friends and family. Just in time for spring, AIC Insurance Agency and Travelers, a leading provider of auto and homeowners insurance, offer these maintenance tips to prepare your home for warmer weather and to keep it safe year-round:

• Inspect your smoke detectors. Make sure that there is one on each floor of your home. Test them and changerepparttar 110371 batteries at least every six months, when you change your clocks. • Checkrepparttar 110372 light bulbs in all your fixtures to be sure that they arerepparttar 110373 correct wattage as recommended byrepparttar 110374 manufacturer. • Replace lamps that use high-producing bulbs (such as halogen) with those that use fluorescent bulbs and operate at much cooler temperatures. • Check your electrical outlets for potential fire hazards such as frayed wires or loose-fitting plugs. Be sure not to overload electrical outlets, fuse boxes, extension cords or any other power service. • Keep a multi-purpose fire extinguisher accessible that is filled and ready for operation. • Have your air conditioning system inspected by a professional as recommended byrepparttar 110375 manufacturer. • Check for damage to your roof, and clean gutters and downspouts to keep debris from accumulating.

Anorexia Nervosa Alert - is your daughter dying to be thin?

Written by S.A. Smith


Anorexia nervosa is a serious medical disorder that is statistically most prevalent inrepparttar adolescent teenage years of young women. It is estimated that 7% ofrepparttar 110369 population suffers from eating disorders and if left untreated over 20% of them will die from it. Anorexia takesrepparttar 110370 lives of children everyday in this world and there are things you can do as a parent to identify anorexic behaviors and intervene to protect your children.

Anorexia nervosa is a condition where one becomes obsessed with losing weight and practices self-starvation in an attempt to achieve significant weight loss or to maintain extremely unhealthy level of body weight. Anorexics are terrified of gaining weight, and often believe they are very fat even though they are already very thin.

Anorexia is not just a condition related to food and eating, but takes its roots from a deeper psychological level. Food and eating becomes a destructive tool that one uses to deal and cope with other emotional problems. Anorexics will often reach out to other anorexics onrepparttar 110371 internet in “pro-ana” sites whereby they encourage each other to continue their weight loss journey. Pro-ana sites argue that anorexia is a lifestyle choice and not an actual disorder, and offer dysfunctional support to other victims ofrepparttar 110372 disease. The risk to our youth from eating disorders is significant and there are things you can do as a parent to intervene:

WATCH FOR WARNING SIGNS

Excessive weight loss: A person suffering from anorexia is skinny and may end up losing more that 15% of their ideal body.

Diet restrictions: a person with anorexia continues to restrict foods and diet even when they are not overweight.

Food Obsession: an excessive preoccupation with food, calories, nutrition, or cooking methods is also a sign of anorexic behavior.

Distorted body image: complaints of feeling bloated, nauseated, or fat even whenrepparttar 110373 person is thin or underweight, and also denying feelings of hunger.

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