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A Root Cause of Cancer
While many people don’t view marijuana as being a dead-serious drug, the oft-termed gateway drug is actually a real killer. A new study out of the American Chemical Society found that the herb damages...
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Whole Carrots, More Nutrients
You wouldn’t think that slicing up a vegetable could alter its disease-fighting powers, but according to a new study out of the United Kingdom, not all carrots are equal. Food scientists found that...
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Is Your Home Covered in Pesticides?
Think twice before wearing your running shoes inside your home. A new report in the journal Environmental Science & Technology discovered that insecticides, including those now deemed too unsafe...
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Breathing Technique for Healthy Travel
I’m sitting deep in coach between a fidgety three-year-old with a runny nose and, across the aisle, a middle-age woman with a frightening cold sore who for some reason keeps smiling at me. I’m trying...
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Does Your Salmon Dinner Have Mad Cow Disease?
Here’s one from the odd files: Researchers believe people can contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, also known as mad cow disease, from eating farmed fish. How so? Some fish farms are feeding their...
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New Documentary Explores the "inGREEDients" in Our Food
In the new documentary film "inGREEDients," registered nurse and filmmaker David Burton discovers an alarming connection between diet and illness while investigating trans fats and hydrogenated oils...
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New Book on Raising Healthy, Active Boys
In his new book The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World, child psychologist Anthony Rao, Ph.D., urges parents to stop treating young boyhood as an illness. These days,...
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A Smoker's Car is a Smoking Time Bomb
Only ride in smoke-free autos. By sitting in a car with a cigarette user, you’ll be exposed to double the amount of second-hand smoke that’s found at smoky bars, according to a new study from Johns...
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Tylenol May Weaken Flu Shot
Your kid may come down with a fever after getting vaccinated against the flu (a common side effect), but don’t give him a preventive dose of temperature-controlling Tylenol beforehand, unless...
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A Drink a Day Won't Keep the Doctor Away
While regular glasses of red wine can help keep your heart healthy, the same can’t be said for Budweiser or Belvedere. A new study in Cancer Prevention and Detection concluded that men who drink beer...
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Are We Drinking Too Much?
I learned two major lessons from my old man. The first was delivered at dawn more than 15 years ago when the phone rang and my mother cried, “I think Daddy died.” His alarm went off, but he never got...
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Sugar's Scary Side Effects
Another reason why sugar surely is the devil’s candy: Consuming fructose, which is commonly found in soda and junk food, can cause your blood pressure to jump—and stay high. Note that fructose...
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Extensive Physicals Save Young Athletes' Lives
While it’s important that your child gets checked for hernias and other common abnormalities before hitting the playing field, a basic check-up might not be enough. Ask your the pediatrician about a...
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Minimize Stroke with Exercise
You may be able to sidestep the most serious after-effects of a stroke by exercising regularly, according to a new study in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Researchers looked at...
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Strong Thighs, Healthy Knees
Another reason for women to lift weights: The stronger a woman’s thighs, the less likely she is to suffer painful knee arthritis, according to a new study published in Arthritis Care & Research....
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The Altruistic Workout
All this month I’ve been experimenting with a new kind of heart workout. Instead of just exercising my heart aerobically as I usually do, I’ve been trying to exercise it altruistically by donating...
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Tis' the Season for Cocoa, Colds, and...Coronaries
Don't let the snow bury your heart. The more frigid the air, the more your blood vessels constrict, increasing your risk of a heart attack. That’s because constricted vessels cause your blood pressure...
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4 Health-Boosting Teas to Drink Right Now
Did you know that tea is the second most consumed drink in the world (water is first)? And for good reason: Created from the leaves of the Camellia plant, tea is loaded with antioxidants that have...
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5 Ways to Prevent Kidney Stones
Anyone who has suffered a kidney stone will do anything to prevent a recurrence. After enduring one New Year’s Day and three subsequent surgeries, I was especially anxious to have a nephrologist...
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4 Things Men Should Know about Prostate Cancer
Though prostate cancer is one of the more treatable forms of the disease, it’s also one of the scariest. A prostate cancer diagnosis can lead to removal of the prostate, which can have dramatic...
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