• Emergency rooms are busy places especially during the summer. More people are outside playing sports or enjoying the outdoors which can lead to sometimes getting injured. Dr. Christopher Hunter, assistant program director of the Orlando Health emergency medicine residency and the associate medical director of Orange County EMS, joins us to talk about why ER’s tend to get busy during the summer and why Orlando has unique patients.
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• Resolutions to eat healthier usually get made at the start of the new year, but Chefs Gary Appelsies and Dawn Viola say there’s no better time than summer to start eating and cooking right. Appelsies is on a tour at the YMCAs in Central Florida to promote healthy cooking and Viola is about to open a teaching kitchen in Clermont.
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• About 300,000 meals will be provided to local children as part of Second Harvest’s Food Bank program. Breakfasts and lunches are delivered to libraries, parks, and houses of worship.
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• Summer’s around the corner- and for Floridians that means hitting the beach, the pool or swimming in one of Florida’s many lakes and rivers. Pathogens that can make you sick are lurking in the water. But how common are these pathogens, and how can you protect yourself?
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• As the weather warms up more people will go outside for barbecues and picnics. Food safety can help prevent food poisoning.
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• Car dealers in central Florida are warning vehicle owners to check to see if their cars are part of a sweeping recall. Summer weather in the state could cause the faulty airbags to explode.
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• Florida leads the country in drowning deaths in children under the age of four and as the warm weather is driving kids to the pool. One swim school is saving lives.
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