Health and Fitness
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A healthy menu for your summer cookoutsJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - Summer is here and cookouts are everywhere. Grilling can be healthy and tasty if you know which foods to choose and how to prepare them. The following tips will turn you...
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Supplements may lower effects of chronic stressJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - In my opinion, chronic stress is the No. 1 health problem in the United States today. In our modern society, everyone is under some level of stress. Chronic stress is a ...
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Separate sleep spaces can aid relationshipsJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - Tim and Shannon Zach share just about everything: great vacations, a love for fishing and happy times with their families. What they don’t share, at least most of the ti...
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Scientists to study wine's impact on memoryJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - TAMPA, Fla. — While some people might drink to forget — the drive home, the electric bill, an annoying co-worker — it may be that a substance in wine actually improves m...
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Patients get little rest in noisy hospitalsJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — Anyone who’s had a hospital stay knows the beeping monitors, the pagers and phones, the hallway chatter, the roommate, even the squeaky laundry carts all ma...
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Workout toys part of the routine for fitness fanaticJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Rob Snyder gets bored easily. The 44-year-old fitness fanatic will do just about anything to get his heart pumping. “I used to be a wrestler in hig...
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Eating heart-healthy fish is better than taking supplementsJun 25, 2012 6:00 am - Q. I've heard that fish contains oils that are good for your health. Does this mean I should take a fish oil supplement? A. You heard right. A good deal of evidence sugg...
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New research tries to clear up mammogram confusionJun 25, 2012 5:57 am - Two new studies have tried to make it easier to determine if women in their 40s should get routine mammograms, an issue that remains fraught with controversy. In 2009, t...
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Parents can panic over pediatric growth chartsJun 25, 2012 5:00 am - When James and Rebecca Ortega of Alexandria, Va., brought their newborn daughter, Avery, to the pediatrician for her first visit last December, the doctor plotted her he...
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Local teens: Heroin is going to keep killing our friendsJun 24, 2012 7:00 am - New breed of anti-drug crusaders trying to reach their peers on heroin's danger