Make sure your meat is completely cooked.

review the safety tips that came with it. If you smell gas while cooking, immediately get away from the grill and call the fire department. Do not move the grill.

The appearance of meat on the grill is not an accurate indicator of whether the meat had been properly cooked,” Knisley says. “Be sure all meats reach a safe temperature: ground meat should reach 160-165 degrees Fahrenheit, chicken or turkey 165 degrees Fahrenheit, and steaks 145 degrees Fahrenheit.”

Dish up a patriotic ending.

Serve a red, white and blue dessert: a no-bake watermelon cake. It’s topped with white, yogurtbased frosting and mouth-watering blueberries. This sweet treat is packed with nutrients and low in calories. For the recipe, go to www.morehealth.org/watermeloncake.

Finally, be a cheerleader for healthy habits.

Keep in mind that children of all ages copy what adults around them do—whether that’s eating well or moving more— even at parties.

Five years CHARLOTTE, N.C. — after he fell while building a treehouse, paralyzing him from the waist down, Scot Mills stood from his chair at Carolinas Rehabilitation recently and took a stroll outdoors.

He did it while strapped to a robotic “exoskeleton,” a device named after the rigid outer covers that in nature supports and protects insects, spiders and shellfish.

Mills, 43, who lives in Rocky Mount, Va., trained twice a week for two months at the Charlotte hospital before becoming its first graduate of a program in home use of the device.

After the 24-foot fall shattered a vertebra, doctors told him he wouldn’t walk again. “I thought it was over,” Mills said. “What can you do in a wheelchair?”

Then friends saw the device on Facebook.

Maker ReWalk Robotics says it continued on