Keep Fast Food in Your Diet
If you're like most Americans, you frequent one of the country's more than 72,000 fast-food restaurants at least once a week. After all, industry data show that fast-food accounts for 86 percent of meals taken home from restaurants. Stick to ... [... more]
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A Fatal Combination: Cold Medication and Drinking
As told to Carol Kauffman From Reader's Digest Read more about The Drug Problem You Didn't Know About in Carol Kauffman's blog post The night my brother Harrison died, he'd been to a party. He'd had a cold that week, and my dad had given him some ... [... more]
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Everyone agrees that we need cheaper, better, easier care for everyone. You know it. The guy heading to the White House knows it. Congress knows it. But knowing and doing aren't necessarily neighbors in Washington, D.C. In any case, we don't have ... [... more]
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Good news for families managing diabetes.
In an exciting study in mice, researchers reversed new cases of type 1 diabetes using the cancer drugs imatinib (Gleevec) and sunitinib (Sutent). The mice were bred to develop diabetes, but none of them got the condition while on either drug. In ... [... more]
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System of Dilemmas
Heart surgeon Mehmet Oz was set to go. On the operating table lay a 50-year-old man, dying from heart failure. He was anesthetized, out cold, and his chest was painted with sterile Betadine. In minutes, Dr. Oz and his team would implant a ... [... more]
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Exercise Benefits All Sizes
If you're overweight, you may feel defeated at the mere thought of exercise. But new research shows that a little sweat brings hefty benefits, no matter your size. For volunteers carrying an extra 100 pounds, just an hour of exercise a week was ... [... more]
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You can lower your risk of back problems. Here's how.
Get in the "up" push-up position, with your forearms on the floor instead of your hands. Keep your back straight; hold as long as you can. Most yoga poses work the core muscles in the center of your body to keep you balanced. People with good .. [... more]
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What you need to ask the doctor when every moment counts.
Bring this list of key questions to your next doctor's appointment. Also, read the companion article, Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor. Ten minutes: That's often all the time you have with your doctor. Whether you're seeing an internist, ... [... more]
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10 Fitness Classes Everyone Should Try Once
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The Manager Who Couldn't Write
What launched Amy Tan's career was not a big break, but a kick in the butt. Before the million-copy sales of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan was a writer. A business writer. She and a partner ran a ... [... more]
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By Gary Wentz From The Family Handyman The solution to most household problems is to attack the source. But you can't eliminate the sources of household dust. You can't even do much to reduce them, because more than 90 percent of household dust ... [... more]
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A New Way to Look at Resolutions
Maybe you overdid it a little during the holidays. Or maybe a lot. But don't beat yourself up and feel guilty as you make New Year's resolutions. There are many more effective and fun ways to bring about change. For the past 30 years, my ... [... more]
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