Westchester Blogs: Fight Fire With Water; Too Much or Too Little Acid?

Here's a roundup of popular blogs from Westchester readers, published recently.

Leave your thoughts and opinion here, or head to the individual blogs to join the discussion. 

From Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch: Fighting Fire with Water

There is a video you should watch, because it's amazing. It's called "Fire with Fire" and it's about doctors and researchers using the HIV virus to fight Leukemia cells in the blood of a six year old girl named Emma. It's a short film, but it inspires me every day because that research was funded in part by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. 

I swim with LLS's Team-in-Training Hudson River Swim for Life team, which is training hard to swim from Nyack to Sleepy Hollow in September.  The research that saved Emma's life was supported by athletes, like myself, of all shapes, sizes and ability levels who have participated in runs, walks, bike rides, triathlons and the Hudson River Swim for Life. 

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From: Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch: From a Child's Perspective

Parents and children are invited to travel back to the 19th century and view the home of Washington Irving through a child’s eyes. Explore Sunnyside as a family home, specially set with period toys and children’s clothing. Stay before or after your tour to play games, hear stories, race through a scavenger hunt, and participate in hands-on-activities.

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From Ossining-Croton-on-Hudson Patch: Heartburn - Too Much or Too Little Stomach Acid?

Pharmaceutical companies persuade the public to buy antacids for what their advertising calls “over-acid stomach.”

Unless you never turn on TV or are blind, deaf and dumb you can’t escape the barrage of advertisements for antacids. 

If you have heard one advertisement you have heard several for the temporary relief from the pain of acid indigestion, acid reflux, GERD, and heartburn. As many as four in 10 Americans have symptoms of gastro esophageal reflux disease, or GERD There is a big market for heartburn medication and a long list of name-brand (patented) pills.  

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From Ossining-Croton-on-Hudson Patch: Forgotten Statue Receives Overdue Honor and Blessing

 In a quiet little cemetery, just off Route 134 in Ossining, stands a pretty, modern stone statue of the Virgin Mary, embracing a crown of thorns.  

Designed by Maryknoll Sister Marie Pierre Semler and crafted in southern Italy in 1961,  the “Mother of the Thorn-Crowned” has stood watch in this place, where many local Catholics have chosen to put their loved ones to rest,  the statue all but forgotten, except by those who chanced to visit the grounds, since it was gifted to St. Augustine’s Cemetery by Maryknoll Sisters in the late 1980s.

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