Health and Fitness
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Colonscopy group highlights colon cancer screeningFeb 28, 2011 10:00 pm - Doctors who specialize in colon cancer screening are using March to highlight the importance of getting tested. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Deat...
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Your health: Are bacteria friend or foe?Feb 28, 2011 1:00 am - Bugs in the system Here's a not-so-savory news flash: There are more bacterial cells living in our bodies than human cells. The Washington Post reports that researc...
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Health briefs: Blood pressure screeningFeb 27, 2011 11:00 pm - The Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center offers free blood pressure testing and education for lowering the risk for heart disease. Testing will be h...
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Chefs: Stars can make healthy eating sexyFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Defending the often frenzied food celebrity culture, chefs Art Smith and Spike Mendelsohn said Saturday that more stars should use their status to p...
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A new priority — it's all about 'me'Feb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - It's all about me. Until a month ago I had never uttered those words. Now that I'm in the midst of the Fittest Loser Challenge, it's about me all day, every day. Over th...
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Doctors want teenagers banned from tanning salonsFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - The American Academy of Pediatrics wants teenagers banned from tanning salons to reduce their risk of skin cancer. More than 30 states regulate indoor tanning by minors,...
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New UK guidelines: Eat less red meatFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - LONDON — Bringing home the bacon might not be such a great idea, according to stricter new dietary advice from the British government issued Friday. In the first new gu...
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'Adjustment period' a challenge for contestantsFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - The intrepid adventurers known as the 2011 Fittest Losers have been on their quest for three weeks, and they have lived to tell their initial tales. Five Daily Herald re...
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Gross earwax is actually a good thingFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - I hit a roadblock — not a concrete one, but it might as well have been. I was examining a cute little 20-month-old and just could not see her right eardrum. The culprit:...
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Rachael Ray: small steps key to child nutritionFeb 27, 2011 10:00 pm - MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Though she lobbied Congress last year to boost the reimbursement rate for school lunches, food celebrity Rachael Ray said Saturday that improving sc...