Tue.Dec 27, 2022

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Top 5 Blogs of 2022

Relentless School Nurse

It’s that time of year again; let’s review the top 5 blog posts of 2022! There is no surprise that the majority of the top blog posts are COVID-related. Thank you to all of the readers of my blog, especially friends and colleagues who have left messages, both public and private. My deepest appreciation to everyone who has contributed a guest blog post!

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We Must Teach Students That Walking is a Form of Transportation

Physical Education Update

In most of the world, people walk to get places. They walk to school, they walk to work. If they don’t walk, they ride a bike. However, in North America, our car-culture has given us a generation of children who don’t consider their feet to be a mode of transportation. The bus takes them to school. If the bus doesn’t stop at their front door, parents give them a drive to the bus stop.

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Blueberry as a Prebiotic to Support the Gut Microbiome

Designs for Health

Prebiotics are compounds that have a specific effect on the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome and help stimulate the activity of the targeted intestinal microbe to potentially help promote human health. To be classified as a prebiotic, the compound must not be absorbed in the GI tract and should instead be fermented by GI microbes. . Examples of prebiotics include fructans such as inulin, fructooligosaccharides, and galactooligosaccharides (GOS).