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The connection between sleep and fat loss
Of all of the contributors to fat loss, proper sleep could be the biggest. While you're sleeping, your body undergoes an amazing series of processes. Sleep is a time when your body repairs damaged tissue and tries to return your cells back to "normal."...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hydrocortisone, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Keeping healthy over the holidays takes some advance planning
The holidays are in full swing and for most people that means lots of opportunities to eat delicious, high-calorie foods that they normally don't eat during the rest of the year. According to the Calorie Control Council, during Thanksgiving alone,...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Holidays, Gifts, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Family
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Spay us now or spay us later
I signed another sympathy card last week for the family of a wonderful female golden retriever that died from mammary adenocarcinoma (breast cancer). This type of cancer would most certainly have been prevented if she had been spayed at an appropriate...Tags: Prostate, Chemotherapy, Human Interest, Abdominal Pain, Colonoscopy
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The what-if prescription
Leave it to some thoughtful physicians to put good medicine ahead of good politics. Last year, the Obama administration wrongly chose to limit access of teens to the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B. This week, pediatricians are urging their...Tags: Family Planning, Barack Obama, American Academy of Pediatrics, Plan B (drug), Chemical Industry
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Alternative treatment: A look at acupuncture
Acupuncture may be ancient — estimates range between 3-4,000 years old — but it is not an ancient Chinese secret. It's used all over the world by acupuncture practitioners as well as medical doctors. We spoke with two experts to learn more....
Tags: Back Pain, Arthritis, Common Cold, Physical Conditions, Diseases and Illnesses
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TV not always a healthy channel for advice
Your family doctor doesn't work with a teleprompter. And there wasn't a live studio audience the last time you put on a hospital gown — thankfully. Television is great for sports, reality shows and reruns of "The Big Bang Theory," but if you're...
Tags: Jim Sears, ABC (tv network), Probiotics, Television, Teaching and Learning
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Extra pounds tied to breast cancer recurrence, death
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among women who have been treated for breast cancer, heavier women are more likely to have their disease come back and more likely to die of cancer, according to a new study. That could be because certain hormones that are...Tags: Bronx (New York City), Weight, Death, Obesity, Medical Research
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It's not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie — or is it? Maybe not, a small study has found. Once the pounds are shed, the proportions of carbohydrates, proteins and fats you chow down on may determine whether you keep the weight off — or slowly but...
Tags: Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Obesity, Medical Research, Low Fat Diet
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The risks and rewards of red meat
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post. This week, Ellen Loreck, MS, RD, LDN;, weighs in on red meat.
Picture this: You're out to dinner and there are juicy porterhouse steaks, sumptuous burgers, and...Tags: Iron (dietary supplement), Steaks, Foods and Beverages, Vitamin Therapy, Internal Medicine
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Researchers eye saliva for patient testing
No one likes to get stuck with a needle.
But it's the only way doctors can get blood to test for diabetes, anemia and numerous other health problems.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing say there is a much less invasive and...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Medical Research, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease
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Motherhood can be the ultimate selfless gesture
Becoming a mother can be one of the most selfless and loving gestures a woman makes. In the course of bringing new life into the world, a woman experiences a host of physical and emotional changes, some of which may be long-lasting and undesired. The...
Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Mood Swings, Swelling
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May 19: Chicago Scene - SELF Workout in the Park
WGN NewsSELF Workout in the Park Saturday, May 21 Butler Field, Grant Park 350 East Monroe Street 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Rain or Shine! Special Guest Appearance on the Main Stage in Chicago: Alison Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser and author Tickets will be...Tags: Health, Vitamin C, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Oranges, Pilates
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