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Today's Globe: inmate nutrition program, technology redefining 'disabled'
The seven women scribbled notes: choose lean cuts of beef, avoid snack foods loaded with saturated fat, get enough Vitamin B by eating whole grains, fish, and eggs. The pupils were not students in a Weight Watchers class; they were inmates taking part in a health class for those about to be freed from jail.
The Boston Home, a facility for people with progressive neurological diseases, has embraced technology as a way to give its 96 residents, all of whom use wheelchairs, dignity and independence - as well as pieces of the lives they had before they were disabled.
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