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Food Lower Cholesterol?
            Can Food Lower Your Cholesterol? Dr. Jennifer Ashton Tests Our Knowledge of Cholesterol and a Heart Healthy Diet Almost 99 million adults in the United States have what is considered borderline or high cholesterol.  In time for Christmas, CBS's  Dr. Jennifer Ashton and Harry Smith talk about foods and cholesterol. To read the full article Can Food Lower Your Cholesterol?, click here.
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Wrinkle Around Mouth
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Why Women Wrinkle Around Mouth
Women More Likely Than Men to Get Wrinkles Around the Lips; Is Biology to Blame?


Biology may be the reason why women are more prone than men to developing wrinkles around the lips -- called perioral wrinkles-- and deeper ones, too, a new study says.

To read the full article Why Women Wrinkle Around Mouth, click here.


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De-Stress Your Workout

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A Device to De-Stress Your Workout

AFTER a night that included several beers and not enough sleep, Keith Gillis, a 31-year-old cyclist in Truro, Nova Scotia, set out on a 74-mile road ride with the caveat that he was feeling fatigued.

To read the full article A Device to De-Stress Your Workouts, click here.


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Women Get More Wrinkles

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Study: Women Get More Wrinkles Than Men
Aesthetic Surgery Journal Finds Anatomical Differences in Male and Female Faces Make Women More Prone to Wrinkling


Mirror, mirror on the wall -- who has the most wrinkles of them all? According to a new study, men win the wrinkle war. Women wrinkle more easily.

To read the full article Women Get More Wrinkles Than Men , click here.



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Antidepressants Personality

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Antidepressants Change Personality

People who take anti-depressants may experience personality changes separate from the alleviation of their depressive symptoms.

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Wine and Teeth?

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Red wine or white? Which makes teeth a fright?
Health conscious (and vain) vino drinkers face cocktail conundrum


Monika Jones, 28, loves red wine. What she doesn’t love is the “monster mouth” it gives her. “I’ve found that red wine not only stains my teeth — it turns the inner part of my lips a dark magenta after just two glasses,” says Jones, a Seattle writer. “My
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Dad Needs Nursing Home?

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Does Dad Need A Nursing Home?
Dr. Jon LaPook Talks About The Tough Choice Of When To Send A Parent To A Nursing Home

One of the great blessings of my life is that my 91-year-old father, who I dearly love, lives in the apartment building next door. After 66 years of marriage, he's been living alone since my mother's death last March. He is still sharp as a tack, as he might say.

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Oral Cancers in Women

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Oral cancers in women rising, HPV sometimes a factor

Pat Folsom, 54, knows the importance of preventive medicine. As a health care worker, she goes for scheduled checkups.

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Predicting Heart Disease

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Predicting Heart Disease Risk

Consumers are well aware of the dangers of oxidative stress, if the number of juices and teas advertised as containing antioxidants is any indication. But what is the best way to measure oxidative stress – and to fight it?

To read the full story Predicting Heart Disease Risk, click here.


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Bypassing the Blues

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Bypassing the Blues


Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients who were screened for depression after surgery and then cared for by a nurse-led team of health care specialists via telephone reported improved quality of life and physical function compared to those who received their doctors' usual care.

To read the full story Bypassing the Blues, click here.


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Being Thankful


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Being thankful ... you’re not like mom and dad: Holidays can provide lessons about love amid quirky family dynamics

Thanksgiving  and Christmas brings the annual mix of happy anticipation and dread as we gather at the old homestead for a day of food, celebration and family politics.

To read the full article Being thankful ... you’re not like mom and dad, click here.


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Global Warming, Save Lives

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Study: Cut Global Warming, Save Lives Slashing; Carbon Emissions Would Reduce Heart, Lung Diseases, New Studies Show

Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, newly released studies say.

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Food Lowers Cholesterol?

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Can Food Lower Your Cholesterol?
Dr. Jennifer Ashton Tests Our Knowledge of Cholesterol and a Heart Healthy Diet


Almost 99 million adults in the United States have what is considered borderline or high cholesterol.  In time for Christmas, CBS's  Dr. Jennifer Ashton and Harry Smith talk about foods and cholesterol.

To read the full article Can Food Lower Your Cholesterol?, click here.


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Cancer Codes Cracked

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Two Cancer Codes Cracked

'We will think about cancers in a very different way's. Researchers have mapped the DNA mutations in skin and lung cancer — findings that one researcher says will change how cancer is viewed.


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Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade
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From Genome to Hormones, Doctors Pick the Top Medical Advances of The Decade


The first decade of the 21st century brought a number of discoveries, mistakes and medical advances that influenced medicine from the patient's bedside to the medicine cabinet.

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Kiss a Frog and Get Salmonella?
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Salmonella's back. Government officials announced this week that salmonella carried by your cute little green friends -- this time frogs -- have caused yet another outbreak in children. Aquatic pet frogs are under fire this week after 48 people in 25 states came down with salmonella serotype typhimurium, according to the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Experts Sound Off on Cereal
Active ImageGeneral Mills' Pledge to Cut Sugar in Kids' Cereals Has Nutrition Experts Buzzing

The cereal giant General Mills has announced it will cut back the amount of sugar in 10 popular kids' cereals to single-digit grams of sugar per serving. As this move piqued the interest of nutritionists and other diet experts, the ABC News medical unit sent out a request for comment to some of the nation's top experts in the field.

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To PSA or Not to PSA

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By Allen Lawrence, M.D.

In 2007, it is estimated that 218,890 men were diagnosed as having prostate cancer in the U.S. It is further estimated that 1out of every 6 men living in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during in his lifetime. In 2006, an estimated 27,350 men died from prostate cancer within the United States. The median age of death from prostate cancer from 2000 through 2004 was 80 years, and 71% of deaths occurred in me
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Cut Holiday Calories
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The holiday season brings with it an overabundance of advice on how to avoid gaining weight in the face of all those festive meals, cocktail parties and plates of cookies brought in by co-workers.

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Holiday Stress
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The daydreams start about this time every year: I imagine a Thanksgiving feast followed by post-turkey touch football on the beach; my children beside a picture-perfect Christmas tree and glowing menorah, gleeful over their gifts and good fortune; a rollicking New Year's dinner party with friends; and generally lots of togetherness and good cheer.

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Home Fire Prevention
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Home Fire Prevention Tips
Fireman Stan shares his tips to help make your home more fire safe. To view thismovie Home Fire Prevention Tips , click here.
The Science of Love
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The Science of Love

Learn a bit about the science of love--neuro transmitters and love maps--and how these influence attraction and relationships.To seethis movie The Science of Love, click here.
Moore In Health Care
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Film maker Micahel Moore Talking about Single Payer Universal health care.
Healthy vs Health Foods

Do you know how to read food labels? Maybe you THOUGHT you did. Truth is, you probably don't. But Jeff Novick of the Pritikin Center does, and in his full talk he shows the 3 easy steps you MUST ... To see Health Food vs. Healthy Food -- How to read labels, click here.
Single Payer Health Ins
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 Why and How of Single Pay Health Inurnace

A must see. If you are concerned about where medicine and your health care are going, you should see and listen to this short video. To see this video “What Is Single-Payer?”, click here
We Become Silent
We Become Silent

 International award-winning filmmaker Kevin P. Miller of Well TV wrote and produced this documentary about the threat to medical freedom of choice. 'We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom' details the ongoing attempts by multinational pharmaceutical interests and giant food companiesto prevent your from purchasingor using vitamin-mineral supplements.It is narrated by Dame Judith Dench.

Charlie Rose
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The panel discusses the rise in obesity in the US, along with its accompanying health concerns, such as type 2 diabetes. A number of obesity experts voice their opinions on the best measures to prevent further weight increases and to treat the existing health concerns. To see Charlie Rose, click here.

Meditation and Yoga
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Meditation and Yoga
for Stress and Emotional Health
Peter Van Houten MD

Learn the science and techniques to gently and easily make lasting, positive changes necessary for emotional well-being through yoga and meditation with Peter Van Houten, MD, co-author of the Yoga Therapy book series.  To see Meditation and Yoga, click here.
Corporate Wellness
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This is the 1st episode of the Wellness TV Show featuring leaders in the Health/Wellness & Fitness field from L&T Health & Fitness, Allison Flatley and Gail Fast. A must watch! To see this video, Corparate Wellness Concepts , click here.
Cure For Mental Illness?

How Close Are We To A Cure For Mental Illness?

An exploration of current ways to treat brain disorders such as schizophrenia and depression, featuring interviews with Drs. Nancy Schneiderman, Thomas Insel and Daniel Weinberger of the NIMH. To see this video on How Close Are We To A Cure of Mental Illness?, click here.
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Sun Protection

With summer coming protection from the harmful rays of the sun is not only essential but also helpful as it will protect you from sunburn and sun induced skin cancers.

Diabetes and Low Blood Sugar

Information about diabetes; prevention, management, treatment, cures, diet and care. Diabetes can be managed naturally without medications or drugs and prevented in the first place.
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