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Intermittent Fasting: A few important facts 

by Tharien van Eck, AWC Antwerp and Health Team Co-Chair

 

The aim of this short article is to create more awareness of intermittent fasting, the value of it and how to approach it. It is always important to seek the input of your personal physician when trying to lose weight, especially to ensure that you do not have any...

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Planning a Home for the Elderly

by Tharien van Eck, AWC Antwerp, Health Team Co-Chair Co-Chair, and member of the FAWCO Elder Care WhatsApp group

 

Health art checklist elderly homeMy inspiration for this checklist came from an article describing various aspects to consider when planning or adjusting space for the elderly, or perhaps for ourselves as we become older. I found more information in a few other articles, and...

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Our King is Dead. Long Live our Queen: Grieving the Loss of a Parent from Abroad

by Adrianne Lind, American Women’s Club in Gothenburg and American International Club in Malmö

 

It turns out that my Daddy was not the first man to live forever. The inevitable day arrived in 2021 when I would wake up with a father and go to bed a fatherless child. My beloved 95-year-old father would take his last breath. Our...

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Cholera – A Disease at the Mercy of Environmental Change and Vaccine Limitations

by Tharien van Eck, AWC Antwerp and Health Team Co-Chair 

 

What is cholera

It is an acute diarrheal infection caused by the intake of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Cholera remains a global threat to public health and an indicator of inequality and lack of social development.

 

A few general facts about the disease

  • Most people...

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Bone on Bone

by Margie O’Rourke, AWC Dublin

 

Health bone on bone margieAt sixty-seven years of age, I couldn’t walk without both knees collapsing on me. My legs weren’t working, but my hands were, so I wrote a letter to my orthopedic surgeon. Yes, I have an orthopedic surgeon on dial-up, as my right hip was replaced years ago. I didn’t go outdoors for weeks for...

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Being a Caregiver from Abroad

by Adrianne Lind, American Women’s Club in Gothenburg and American International Club in Malmö

 

health adrianne lindSuddenly, things change

I moved from the United States to Belgium in 2002, yet I always knew that I would come back to the US to help my family when they needed me. I couldn’t imagine it being any other way. At the time of my...

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