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Ultrasound test helps women with dense breast tissue BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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hen Emmy-awardwinning actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus was diagnosed with breast cancer recently, she announced that “One in eight women get breast cancer. Today, I’m the one.” This is one of several startling statistics regarding breast cancer. And though women are scheduling mammograms this October during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many patients aren’t aware of the risks associated with having dense breast tissue. More than 40 percent of women age 40 and older are estimated to have dense breasts. According to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, women with dense breast tissue are four to Continued on PG 11
NO SLACKING OFF Slackline trend picks up speed across the North Shore BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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f, while driving the streets of Winnetka, you’ve spotted tiny tightrope walkers cavorting in neighborhood trees, you may be half wondering if the circus is coming to town. Once the domain of rock climbing enthusiasts and college hipsters, slacklines have been sprouting up on front lawns and backyards across the North Shore. Slacklining is the act of walking or balancing along a length of flat webbing suspended a few feet off the ground between two trees. Slacklines are different from traditional tightropes in that they’ll swing, stretch, and bounce like a trampoline. Webbing can be tensioned tighter, for beginning slackliners, or loosened for more experienced practitioners. A second, parallel slackline is often
Willow Sell, 7, Maddie Sell, 12, Cooper Sell, 10, and Blair Trench, 9, slacklining in Winnetka. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
tensioned 4-6 feet above a bottom slackline to function as an overhead safety balance, if necessary.
Requiring simple equipment ranging in price from $40-$60 and sold on Amazon as well as outdoor specialty stores, slacklin-
ing has been widely praised for outdoor alternative to screen building core strength and time. Winnetka resident Christina balance. Local parents are endorsing the activity as a healthy, Continued on PG 8
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