Archive for the 'Health' Category

Vitamin D May Offer New Hope For Crohn’s Sufferers

Canadian researchers may be offering new hope for Crohn’s disease sufferers in the form of over-the-counter Vitamin D.

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New Year’s Celebration Can Be Heart-Healthy

If you like to drink champagne at your New Year’s Eve party, here’s some good news…

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Obesity Affects Response To Blood Pressure & Cholesterol Meds

Obesity is already considered to be a risk factor for developing diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

But have you ever considered whether obesity can affect how well your blood pressure and cholesterol medicines work?

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Diet Choices That May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk

The Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics recently published a review by 2 researchers who suggest that certain diet choices may help to prevent prostate cancer or manage patients who already have prostate cancer.

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How Lack Of Sleep Can Make You Fat

It turns out that poor sleep, such as from chronic insomnia, disrupts one of our hunger hormones, which can make us fat.

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Is Your Marriage Killing You?

If you’re a woman in a strained marriage, it just might be.

Here’s why…

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5 Dieting and Other Holiday Myths

Here are 5 holiday myths, including diet and dieting myths, that have recently been disproved by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine:

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Is Your Good Cholesterol Actually Bad?

You’ve probably been led to believe that you’re healthy if you have a high level of good cholesterol (HDL) and a low level of bad cholesterol (LDL).

Well, now the experts are pulling a switcheroo on us.

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Obese People And The New Leptin Risk

A lot of obese people think they’re healthy if they don’t have high cholesterol or diabetes. After all, what’s the problem with extra pounds if everything else checks out okay?

Turns out there’s a big problem and here’s what it is…

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Your Cell Phone: The New Face Of Fitness

If you’re having trouble losing weight and sticking with an exercise routine, your cell phone may be your new best friend.

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