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You might not know it, but eating disorders are common among men. Watch the video to learn more about the condition. Time

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Clean living reporter Patti Singer talks with Dr. Marcus Noel and Courtney Smith about colon cancer among young people. Patti Singer

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The 'afterglow' from having sex lasts for two days, according to new research from Florida State University. Sean Dowling (@seandowlingtv) has more. Buzz60

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Sometimes when youve been taking care of your eating habits for so long, your body just wants a deliciously disgusting fast food meal, after all we are humans. Maria Mercedes Galuppo (@mariamgaluppo) has more.

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Spinning might look about the same as outdoor cycling or riding a stationary bike, but in many ways, it's a far more intense workoutand one of the easiest to overdo. Time

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Kim and Marc Ramirez of Clinton Township(Photo: Provided by Marc Ramirez, Provided by Marc Ramirez)

When Lois Maljakthinks of the switch to a plant-based way of eating, a quote from Hippocrates comes to mind: Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Maljak, owner of Willow Pond Farm in Armada, is part of the miHealth North Macomb Challenge aplant-based diet campaignthat gets under way Saturday.

Health professionals believe that switching to a plant-based diet can help people get control of their health and off medication, and the challenge aims to deliver that message.

The challenge was brought about by several community members, including life coach Marc Ramirez, Ruth Heidebreicht of TheMitt.tv, an Internet-based broadcast company serving Macomb County,and Maljak, whose farm offers locally sourced dinnersand healthy living classes.

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At its core, a plant-based diet consists of eating fruits, vegetable, legumes, nuts and grains. It's devoid of animal fat.

A screening of the documentary film "Eating You Alive," featuring Ramirez, kicks off the nearly month-long challenge at 6 p.m. Saturdayat Grays Opera/Masonic Lodge, 231 N. Main St., Romeo.

By adopting a plant-based lifestyle more than five years ago, Ramirez of Clinton Township said he not only shed weight but cleared his medicine cabinet of daily doses of several medications, including daily insulin injections.

Ramirez, 49, is an AT&T operations manager and former University of Michigan football player. Along with his wife, Kim, he founded Chickpea and Bean, which offers plant-based lifestyle seminars and cooking classes.

The whole idea (for the challenge) is to try and get people to think a little bit differently about how we eat, Ramirez said.

The cost is $50, which also includes pre- and post-challenge blood testing for cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose. Blood testing begins April 29, and the 21-day challenge startsMay 1.

The campaign includes meetings on Wednesdays and Saturdays that will offer food demonstrations, samplings and lectures from renowned health professionals, including Dr. Joel Kahn, who also is an owner of Greenspace Caf in Ferndale, along with food demonstrations and samplings.

Along with the lectures, the challenge includesan iOS app or e-mail with all the foods, recipes, and nutritional values of the food during the challenge.

And because eating out can be daunting, a dozen area restaurants have developed plant-based menu items for the event.

For nearly a decade, Ramirez suffered from Type 2 diabetes, as did many of his eight siblings. Ramirez controlled his diabetes, a disease that affects millions, by taking insulin shots along with two oral medications. Ramirez also took medication for high cholesterol and blood pressure.

His eureka moment to do something about his condition came after watching the film "Forks Over Knives," which looks at how adopting a plant-based diet and avoiding processed foods can control or possibly reverse certain diseases. He also read Dr. Neal Barnard's "Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs."

Its helped me reverse all the chronic illnesses I had, Ramirez said.

Thechallenge cameabout through Ramirez's relationship with Willow Pond Farm, where Chickpea and Bean have hosted Farm to Table seminars, and TheMitt.tv.

Ruth Heidebreicht, owner and director of the nonprofit station thatprovides coverage of community events and government meetings, took the 21-day challenge, along with her staff.

Heidebreicht said shefelt like a million bucks afterward.

"One gal on our team lost 28 pounds and improved her blood pressure and cholesterol," Heidebreicht said.

Maljak, along with her daughter, have been following a plant-based diet. "We met Marc and he talked about reversing his diabetes," Maljak said. "I listened to hisstory and soon after I did my own journey."

Since then, she's dropped 44 pounds and is on what she describes as "lighter medication."

Admission to the optional film screening today of "Eating You Alive, is $10 per person.

Register for the challenge here.

Contact Susan Selasky at 313-222-6872 or sselasky@freepress.com. Follow @SusanMariecooks on Twitter.

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It's baby time right? On the Wednesday, April 19, episode of Total Divas, Brie Bella was stressing over her struggle to conceive. She went to lunch with her twin sister, Nikki Bella, and spent most of the time lamenting her fertility troubles. Nikki tried to lend an ear, but also thought Brie was psyching herself out too much. Then they headed to an acupuncturist, where Brie discussed how stressed she was about not being pregnant already. "I feel really lost right now," she lamented.

During that appointment, Nikki said she thought Brie should reconsider her diet and add meat into the mix. The acupuncturist did agree that vegetarian diets often led to iron deficiencies, but suggested that Brie could get enough iron by eating spinach to make up for it.

Brie Isn't Going to Ride the Meat Train

Later, Nikki ordered dinner for herself and Brie. For herself, she ordered a delicious steak. For Brie, she ordered about 10 spinach salads. The point was to show Brie how much spinach she would need to eat in one sitting to get the same amount of iron in one piece of meat.

Brie's response was to say, "I don't think kids are it for me in this lifetime." She insisted, "I would never eat meat, and if my body needed that to conceive, it wouldn't happen." She further explained, "There's no way that I would sacrifice my beliefs on animals to be a mom." (Brie and husband Daniel Bryan announced in October that they are expecting their first child.)

After giving it some more thought, however, Brie called a friend who had been a vegetarian too until she was trying to have a baby. The friend then began eating meat, got pregnant and gave birth, and now was continuing to eat meat even though she felt guilty about it. "It's disheartening," Brie said after learning that her friend had abandoned her vegetarianism for a child. "It's hard."

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Maryse was having her own physical struggles, but hers was with her eyes. Her husband was getting tired of having to read things to her because her sight was so bad. He bought her a bunch of glasses, but she refused to wear them. She also refused to wear contacts. He then suggested Lasik surgery. She was very opposed to the idea until she accidentally sent a naked pic of herself to a bunch of people when she was trying to send it just to him.

After enough of the other recipients teased her about the nude image, she finally agreed to have the surgery. It turned out it wasn't half as bad as she'd thought, and she was happy she'd done it.

Paige Gets Suspended

"I can't f---ing believe this!" Paige said as she stormed around in the parking lot. Apparently, she had an issue with her WWE-sanctioned drug test and been suspended. She wasn't actually in the ring yet because she was still recovering from an injury, but she was upset just the same.

"First of all, I don't do drugs. Second of all, I did the test, and I passed it. They're only suspending me because I didn't take it in the allotted time that they gave me." She said that her takeaway from this experience was to "do things exactly the way they want" her to. That's probably a good takeaway.

Lana Threatens to Call the Cops on Renee

Meanwhile, Renee, Lanaand Rusev headed to Anguilla to do some charity work. (Well, technically it was supposed to be a girls' trip, but Lana brought Rusev along.) Lana forced Renee to act as the unofficial photographer taking photos of herself with Rusev, making Renee felt like the third wheel until Trinity arrived. At that point, Renee and Trinity took off for some drinking and left Lana (and Rusev) in the dust.

Rusev couldn't care less, but Lana was very hurt. She and Rusev were already home and asleep when Renee and Trinity rolled in. They were drunk and having fun when Lana stormed out, upset that she'd been woken up, and threatened to call the cops on them. "Sorry, we can't hear you over all the fun we're having!" Renee screamed back.

The next morning, things were icy between Lana and Renee, until Lana went over and apologized for being somewhat psycho and annoying. "I think there are parts of me that get jealous," she said. "I'm not there at Smackdown, and I'm like, 'Where do I fit in?' I feel like the third wheel." Renee and Trinity both assured Lana that she did fit in, and the three hugged and made up.

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Dear Doctor: Do I really need to take a multivitamin? My sisters are convinced that you cant get all the nutrients that you need without one, but it seems to me that as long youre eating right, youre covered.

Dear Reader: Multivitamins are the most widely used supplements in the United States. It is estimated that between one-third and one-half of all Americans take a multivitamin each day. As a result, your question is one that comes up often in our practices. And while we cant offer specific advice, we can share and explain the information we give to our patients.

The short answer is that for most patients, we believe that if youre eating a balanced diet, one that includes whole grains, a variety of vegetables and fruits, adequate lean protein and dairy products, there is no need for a multivitamin. However, when a patients diet isnt ideal, then a multivitamin can offer insurance for the deficient vitamins and/or minerals.

Of course, there are exceptions. Pregnant women and women who are trying to become pregnant need at least 400 micrograms of folate per day, a B vitamin that helps to prevent neural tube defects. For these women, a prenatal vitamin or a daily folic acid supplement is recommended. Nursing women have unique nutritional needs that may call for supplementation. Some elderly adults whose appetites have diminished and who therefore dont eat a balanced diet may benefit from adding a multivitamin.

Someone on a restricted diet, such as a vegan, typically needs a B12 supplement. A strict vegetarian may require additional zinc, iron or calcium. And for individuals with chronic conditions such as iron deficiency anemia, B12 deficiency or malabsorption, or a history of gastric bypass surgery, then supplemental vitamins and minerals are necessary to maintaining good health.

So what are vitamins, exactly? Theyre nutrients that we need in small quantities to maintain various metabolic functions that, when taken in total, add up to good health. Vitamins help the body to produce energy, ward off cell damage, facilitate in the absorption and utilization of minerals, and play varying roles in the regulation of cell and tissue growth.

Vitamins must be taken in food because the body either doesnt produce them in adequate quantities, or doesnt produce them at all. Vitamin D is a bit of an outlier. Its an essential nutrient that does not naturally appear in food in adequate quantities, but is produced when our skin is exposed to the ultraviolet B rays in sunlight. It is also available in fortified foods like milk, fish and mushrooms.

Take an honest look at your diet. If you find some nutritional holes, our advice is to adjust and improve your eating habits. If you do decide to make a multivitamin part of your daily regimen, keep in mind that it cannot take the place of a balanced and healthy diet. Not only do fruits, vegetables, whole grains and leafy greens contain vitamins, they also provide fiber, which is important to good health. Whole foods also contain trace nutrients and other useful compounds that no pill or supplement can re-create.

(Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and primary care physician at UCLA Health.)

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Carbs are an important energy source in our diets, but can having too many be bad for our health?

It depends on the type. In general, carbohydrates get a very bad reputation, Dr. Nuha El Sayed, a staff physician at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, told Fox News. Carbohydrates are not all the same, and theyre not all bad. And eating too many carbs wont, for instance, lead to diabetes, she said.

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Lauri Wright, a dietitian and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, told Fox News that generally speaking, about half of your daily calories ought to come from carbohydrates. Still, she noted, too many simple carbs like sugars and sweets can actually act as an inflammatory agent, causing damage to the linings of the arteries and affecting our heart health.

But given that carbs are an essential nutrient (they give us energy, after all), how can we incorporate them healthfully into our diet? Fox News spoke to Wright and El Sayed for their tips:

1. Reach for whole grains. All carbs are not created equally, Wright said. Reach for fruits, vegetables, and whole grains such as brown rice, she said, which are packed with nutrients like fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

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2. Avoid simple sugars. Try to cut back on simple sugars like sodas, candies, and white breads, which often lack important nutrients and antioxidants that you can find in whole grains and fruits, Wright said. For example, try a whole grain cereal with berries for breakfast, rather than coffee and a donut, she suggested.

3. Watch the portions. Carbohydrates pack a lot of energy, so always watch your portions, Wright said. That means one cup of pasta versus a whole plate full, or sticking to one breadstick rather than three or four, she said.

4. Be careful about what you add to your carbs. Also be careful about the sauces and spreads you add to your carbs, which could pack a lot of calories, Wright said. For a bagel, try a tablespoon of peanut butter versus a whole smear of cream cheese, or for pasta, go for marinara sauce rather than Alfredo sauce, Wright recommended.

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5. Focus on fiber. If you eat more fiber-rich carbohydrates, like fruits and vegetables, youll feel full faster and avoid the surge in blood sugar that you get from simpler carbohydrates, El Sayed said.

6. Above all, strive for a balanced diet. In the end, its all about a balanced diet, El Sayed said. Its not about limiting one food or another. Because when you go for a balanced diet, youre unlikely to overdo it on one particular macronutrient or another.

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With her naturally slim body, Bethany Tomlinson has revealed she could eat whatever she liked without gaining weight.

The Instagram model gorged on chocolate, chips and pizza every day - and stayed UK size 4 to 6.

However, the 22-year-old, from Somerset, England, was miserable and hated her skinny frame.

In 2015, feeling helpless after her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Bethany decided to bulk up her body.

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Instagram fitness model Bethany Tomlinson revealed how she achieved her amazing curves

She took up weight training and completely overhauled her sugar-laden diet.

The 5ft 2inches brunette bulked up from a miniscule 6 stone to a healthy 8 stone 6 lbs; she's now a happy size 8 to 10.

Business and Marketing student, Bethany said: I had always been naturally slim but I always felt so unhappy with my shape.

"I threw myself into my studies and I also discovered Instagram where I learned about women who had transformed their naturally petite bodies to muscular and curvy.

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"They looked so empowered and strong - physically and mentally. I wanted that for myself and decided to transform my body."

Bethany now eats five wholesome meals per day with plenty of fruit, vegetables and water.

Within two years of training, Bethany gained 2 stones and 6lbs (she now weighs a curvy 8stone 6lbs) and is a ripped and muscular size 10.

"A mixture of good diet and weight training have allowed me to gain weight in a healthy way whilst staying lean.

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Breakfast: Two chocolate croissants and a cooked breakfast with toast and coffee

Lunch: Pizza or breaded chicken with chops

Mid-afternoon snack: Chocolate, biscuits and sweets

Dinner: Home cooked meal

Evening snack: Popcorn and chocolate

Breakfast: Eggs and Gluten-free bread or Protein pancakes

Lunch: Wholegrain wrap with chicken and salad Pre-gym snack: Turkey breast steak or mince Dinner: Chicken or fish with some carbs

Evening snack: Trek protein bar or soya protein yogurt

Your Easter chocolate binge may have you feeling a little bit woozy after so much of the sweet stuff.

This is exactly what you can do to reverse the diet damage of Easter.

The first thing to avoid doing to going cold turkey, according to Dr. Mike Roussell.

Sugar is an addictive substance, and starving the body off it can make a person feel horrible and have them reaching for the sweets again in no time.

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For anyone who grew up during the 90s or 2000s, the day where you walked into your science class and saw a cart with a big tube television strapped down by a polyester belt was a glorious day. It meant that for one day, your textbooks could stay put in that way-too-heavy backpack because it was time to watch Bill Nye the Science Guy. We cant deny the joy that he brought us, making learning science fun and because of that, most of us have a tendency to get pretty nostalgic over ol Bill.

Even after we graduated, Bills work in the science community continued through his work on various projects (such as assisting in the development of a sundial that was sent into space with the Mars-destined Curiosity rover) and publishing a book on science and Creationism but last summer, he caught the publics attention when he announced his return to television in the Netflix original series Bill Nye Saves the World, which premieres tomorrow.

If theres anything better than the fact that once again, well be able to watch Bill Nye make science fun again, its that hes been more vocal about climate change, recently. After all, hes a science guy and there is no way to ignore the facts. Last month, he appeared on a short segment on Big Think, where a viewer who went vegan after watching Cowspiracy and Before the Flood asked for his opinion on eating a plant-based diet to help the planet.

Although Bill admitted that animal agriculture has an adverse effect on the planet and that his diet is becoming increasingly vegetarian, he also spoke of recent advances to breed cattle that emit less methane not exactly the simplest solution to fighting climate change.

However, when asked about plant-based diets in his recent Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), Bill told readers that plant-based diets are the future. Not only that, hes excited about vegan food, which, for so long, has had a reputation for being a bland, tasteless substitute for the real thing.

Bill went on to say I look forward to food preparations that are not derivative bits, as we say in comedy writing. Instead of coconut bacon, for example, I hope there is just delicious stand-alone coconut preparations. Cooking is a competitive business. I look forward to the emergence of new plant-based dishes.

While we may disagree with Bill on coconut bacon(its delicious), were glad that it looks like Bill Nye, the man that taught a generation to love science, is on board with not only the plant-based future of foodbut eating more plant-based foods to save the planet!

Changing your diet can be difficult, but if youre ready to start adding more plant-based foods to your diet, check out theFood Monster App(available for bothiPhone and Android). The Food Monster App featuresover 8,000 vegan recipes ( over new 10 recipes are added daily) along with special diet categories such as whole foods, gluten-free, soy-free, and more. Lead image source: Bill Nye the Science Guy/Facebook

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Cancer cells have an unnatural appetite for certain amino acidsnonessential amino acids that healthy cells produce themselves, usually in amounts sufficient for ordinary metabolism. If cancer cells are denied these amino acids, they are weakened. They grow and proliferate more slowly. It is possible, moreover, that they could be more vulnerable to conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

The potential for diet therapies against cancer is being explored by a team of Cancer Research UK scientists. Working with endogenous tumor mouse models, these scientists found that removing the amino acids serine and glycine from the diet slowed the development of lymphoma and intestinal cancer.

Another finding from the study is especially encouraging. Serine and glycine deprivation appears to leave tumors more susceptible to chemicals in cells called reactive oxygen species, the very chemicals that become more abundant in cells when chemotherapy and radiotherapy are administered.

Additional details appeared April 19 in the journal Nature, in an article entitled Modulating the Therapeutic Response of Tumours to Dietary Serine and Glycine Starvation. The article noted that previous studies showed that restricting dietary serine and glycine can reduce tumor growth in xenograft and allograft models. By working with genetically engineered mouse models of intestinal cancer (driven by Apc inactivation) or lymphoma (driven by Myc activation), the Cancer Research UK scientists hoped to extend diet therapy research to more clinically relevant autochthonous tumors.

Transferring mice from normal chow diet to experimental diets 6080 days after birth showed that [a serine- and glycine-free] diet significantly extended survival in these models carrying pre-malignant lesions, wrote the articles authors. The increased survival following dietary restriction of serine and glycine in these models was further improved by antagonizing the anti-oxidant response.

The article also observed that serine and glycine deprivation may not be effective in all cancers.

Disruption of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (using biguanides) led to a complex response that could improve or impede the anti-tumour effect of serine and glycine starvation, the article noted. Notably, Kras-driven mouse models of pancreatic and intestinal cancers were less responsive to depletion of serine and glycine, reflecting an ability of activated Kras to increase the expression of enzymes that are part of the serine synthesis pathway and thus promote de novo serine synthesis.

Essentially, the diet was less effective in tumors with an activated Kras gene, such as most pancreatic cancer, because the faulty gene boosted the ability of the cancer cells to make their own serine and glycine. Being aware of such effects could help clinicians select which tumors could be best targeted by diet therapy.

"Our findings suggest that restricting specific amino acids through a controlled diet plan could be an additional part of treatment for some cancer patients in future, helping to make other treatments more effective, said Oliver Maddocks, Ph.D., the lead author of the Nature paper and a Cancer Research UK scientist at the University of Glasgow.

A Cancer Research UK spokesperson added that clinical trials could show whether a specialized diet that lacks serine and glycine would be safe and help slow tumor growth in people. Additional research could also work out which patients would be most likely to benefit, depending on the characteristics of their cancer.

"This kind of restricted diet would be a short-term measure and must be carefully controlled and monitored by doctors for safety, cautioned Prof. Karen Vousden, Cancer Research UK's chief scientist and study co-author. Our diet is complex, and proteinthe main source of all amino acidsis vital for our health and well-being. This means that patients cannot safely cut out these specific amino acids simply by following some form of home-made diet."

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The Daily Meal is announcing the inductees into its Hall of Fame for 2017. The Hall of Fame honors key figures, both living and dead, from the world of food. We are introducing the honorees, one per weekday, beginning today. Our first inductee this year is Clarence Birdseye.

By perfecting the process of flash-freezing food safely, Clarence Birdseye (18861956) transformed the food industry and made more nutritious food more easily available to more people than ever before.

Birdseye was born in Brooklyn but brought up as an outdoorsman, learning taxidermy while a teenager. He attended but did not graduate from Amherst College, instead taking a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in New Mexico and Arizona as an assistant naturalist. (Among his tasks was killing off coyotes.) From 1912 to 1915, while on government assignment in Labrador, he began research on the fast-freezing of food, a process suggested by his observation of the ice fishing of local Inuits.

Birdseye returned to the U.S. in 1917 and continued his experiments in 1922 at the Clothel Refrigerating Co., with a seven-dollar investment in an electric fan, brine, and ice then founded his own company, Birdseye Seafoods Inc. This venture went bankrupt in 1924, but by then Birdseye had improved his processes, finding that fish froze best between two refrigerated surfaces under pressure. He established the General Seafood Corporation in 1925 in Gloucester, Massachussetts, and two years later expanded into freezing other foods, including produce and meats, and debuted his patented Quick Freeze Machine. Two years after that, he sold both his company and patents to Goldman Sachs and the Postum Co. for $22 million. After Postum became General Foods Corp., it launched the highly successful Birds Eye Frozen Food Co., shipping its products all over America in refrigerated boxcars.Last year, Americans spent about $53 billion on frozen food, and there is scarcely a home freezer in the land that doesnt contain at least a few products descended, in one way or another, from Birdseyes frozen fish.

Frozen food became immensely popular in America, as it preserved the color, texture, and nutritional value of a wide range of foods better than canning (which requires that foods be heated, thus neutralizing some of the vitamins and minerals they contain). Last year, Americans spent about $53 billion on frozen food, and there is scarcely a home freezer in the land that doesnt contain at least a few products descended, in one way or another, from Birdseyes frozen fish.

During his lifetime, Birdseye also raised foxes for their pelts, pioneered frozen food grocery display cases, and obtained more than 200 patents for products including light bulbs, harpoons, and paper made from sugarcane pulp. He died of a heart attack in New York City in 1956 but not before, as the National Inventors Hall of Fame puts it, he improved the nation's diet and created a new industry based on his innovative food preservation processes.

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A south Bucks care home has been rated as requiring improvement after an unannounced inspection visit by a care watchdog in January in response to information of concern it had received about the service, including reports of understaffing.

Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission found the service at Woodland Manor Care Home, in Chalfont St Peter, was not always safe, with peoples medicines not managed and administered safely, and there were concerns about the care home being understaffed, which meant people did not always get the required assistance they needed.

Residents said that while staff at the 64-room care home were responsive to their call bells being answered, there was a delay in their care being met, with one commenting: Staff are rushed off their feet they come to turn off my call bell but are not able to provide the assistance I need at that time.

Evidence of this was seen when one person, who was on a pureed diet, was left to eat unsupervised which inspectors said could suggest they could be at risk of choking.

They saw another resident calling out for help for around 10 minutes but staff were not available to assist and did not hear them.

However individual staff members were praised by both residents and their relatives, who described staff as compassionate, patient, kind, enthusiastic, genuinely caring, so amazing, professional, genuine and always helpful.

They also said the home had a happy and welcoming atmosphere.

Inspectors further found that people were involved in making decisions about their care, however the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 were not followed for people who lacked mental capacity.

The report also highlighted that the service was not always well led, with peoples records not suitably maintained and there was no registered manager in place to oversee things.

However an interim manager was in post and had started to bring about positive changes to the service, inspectors said.

The full report can be viewed at http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-2397990471.

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County encourages private beach owners to remove hurricane debris that could prevent sea turtle nesting Ormond Beach Observer It's estimated that only about one in 1,000 to 10,000 hatchlings will make it safely to sexual maturity, which is at about 25 to 30 years of age. Jennifer Winters, Volusia County's sea ... Human food is not a nutritious diet for them. Do not disturb ...

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