Archive for the 'Health' Category
Jamba Juice finally opens in San Antonio
A Jamba Juice has finally opened up Broadway and Hildebrand across from the SBC/AT&T building, next to the Cheezy Janes and Subway. I love Jamba Juice and was so excited when they opened one up years ago at Huebner Oaks and instantly sad that it didn’t last long and they closed it. There […]
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Running and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Alamo City
Elite Racing, a sports marketing management company, announced on October 8th that they selected the city of San Antonio for the next Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon and 1/2 marathon.
The inaugural race will take place on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008, and will replace the city’s existing San Antonio Marathon. Organizers expect to draw more than 15,000 […]
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Restaurants to put calories on menus?
I was watching the news (San Antonio WOAI) and they reported that there are some San Antonians wanting San Antonio restaurants to put calories clearly on menus. San Antonio is one of the fattest cities in the US. To help San Antonio become healthier and hopefully off of the “fattest city” list, people think that […]
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A Hot Chicago Marathon hits home
Yesterday was the La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon, one of the most popular, eventful marathons on the running calendar. The Chicago Marathon is known for it’s flat course, event organization, beautiful run through the city and most importantly, the spectators. 45,000 runners were registered for this marathon yesterday. Chicago received unusually high temperatures this […]
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San Antonio Lime Disease
I started noticing these dark spots splattered all over the top of my hands. I have had these spots for about 2 weeks now. They don’t itch and they aren’t bumpy. They are just a darker pigmentation. I do have sensitive skin but this is something I had never seen before. They always say that […]
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Started Invisalign
I started going to Dr. Orsatti’s office about 2 years ago. I was looking for a dentist that was listed on my new insurance and Dr. Orsatti came highly recommended from a co-worker. When you walk into the office, it smells sweet like vanilla sugar or apple pie. There are complimentary cookies, juice and water […]
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San Antonio Walk with Us to Cure Lupus 2007
My aunt, RoseAnn, was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) when she was just 14 years old. She battled the disease for 10 years before she passed away at only 27 years old. She was such a happy person that you would have never known that she was suffering, but she was. SLE is an […]
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Native San Antonian talks Neuroscience
Melissa Saenz, Ph.D. is an active researcher on Computation & Neural Systems at California Institute of Technology. She is part of the distinguished speaker series for the MindScience Foundation. This series stopped in her very own hometown San Antonio at the historic Pearl Brewery. I attended the series and it […]
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