Health and Fitness
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Citizen-science project wants to know what’s in your gutJan 21, 2013 4:02 am - WASHINGTON — The bacterial zoo inside your gut could look very different if you’re a vegetarian or an Atkins dieter, a couch potato or an athlete, fat or thin. Now for a...
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Your health: Fitness, diet apps popularJan 21, 2013 4:00 am - Come on, get app-y Diet and fitness apps seem to be more popular than ever, and a new survey of more than 1,300 women ranks the most popular ones, according to The ...
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Exercise can help offset those negative feelingsJan 21, 2013 4:00 am - Shannon Hyland-Tassava tries to run up to 25 miles a week, year-round. It's harder in winter — icy sidewalks, snowy trails — but she's determined. As a sufferer of seaso...
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Lighting the way through seasonal affective disorderJan 21, 2013 4:00 am - At first, she thought it was the post-holiday blues, since her mood tended to dip around the time festive, glowing December gave way to bleak January. “I thought it was ...
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Foam roller stretching can reduce muscle tensionJan 21, 2013 4:00 am - If you've resolved to become fitter and healthier this year, we hope you're off to a great start. If you continue to stick with it, the extra focus in the kitchen and th...
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Business CEOs call for raising retirement ageJan 20, 2013 5:12 am - WASHINGTON — An influential group of business CEOs is pushing a plan to gradually increase the full retirement age to 70 for both Social Security and Medicare and to par...
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Camp Lejeune water contaminated in 1953Jan 18, 2013 6:35 pm - RALEIGH, N.C. — Many more Marines and their relatives could be eligible for government health care for their illnesses after a federal agency determined that the water a...
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Flu season ‘bad one for the elderly,’ CDC saysJan 18, 2013 6:29 pm - The number of older people hospitalized with the flu has risen sharply, prompting federal officials to take unusual steps to make more flu medicines available and to urg...
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Lilly drug chosen for Alzheimer’s studyJan 18, 2013 2:50 pm - Researchers have chosen an experimental drug by Eli Lilly & Co. for a large federally funded study testing whether it’s possible to prevent Alzheimer’s disease in older ...
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Physicians challenge S. Barrington doctor’s convictionJan 18, 2013 10:11 am - The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is asking to intervene in challenging the conviction of a South Barrington doctor who was sentenced in September to 1...