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1 Breast Cancer Prevention: 5 Tips From Dr. Susan Love For Breast Cancer Awareness Month
prevention
2 5 Foods That Fight Migraines
healthy living
3 5 Reasons You Have a Summer Cold
wrist
4 Stretch It: 2 Wrist Stretches
Skin Cancer
6 Another Reason to Exercise (and Drink Coffee)
healthy living
7 Coughing 101
Hair
8 Head Lice: Do You Know the Facts?
Soup
9 Catch Fewer Colds
prevention
11 Athlete's Foot: Keep it Off Your Feet
prevention
12 Type 2 Diabetes: How to Lower Your Risk
prevention
13 7 Quick Ways to Improve Your Mind
Food
14 What the Experts Won't Even Eat
prevention
15 Part One: 8 Secrets of the Naturally Thin
prevention
16 Part Two: 8 Secrets of the Naturally Thin
prevention
17 Part Three: 8 Secrets of the Naturally Thin
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18 Part Four: 8 Secrets of the Naturally Thin
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19 Part Five: 8 Secrets of the Naturally Thin
Since breast cancer is a growing concern among women, we talked to Dr. Susan Love, a known expert in the field, to share her tips on how to prevent breast cancer. Watch our video to find out what she thinks the likely causes are and easy things you can do now to keep cancer at bay, including staying away from unnecessary radiation and the right time to get a mammogram. Read more
When an unrelenting craving hits, there's only one thing to do: satisfy it. For days now, I've had a hankering for red, or tomato-based, clam chowder, laden with chunks of celery, and chewy, briny clams. Tonight, I'm going to address it with a quick, scrumptious, and healthy version of the Manhattan specialty. Although the recipe allows for canned clams, I'll be using leftover shellfish from Read more
When I asked my doctor about ways to prevent migraines, she recommended I take a magnesium (oxide) supplement. I headed to my closest drugstore and picked up a bottle of Nature's Bounty Magnesium supplement (500 mg), and I've been taking one pill every morning for the last few weeks. Even though it's been less than a month, since taking the mineral supplement I've been headache and migraine Read more
If you're a migraine sufferer like me, you are constantly looking for prevention ideas. Depending on what your triggers are — wine, cheese, chocolate, etc. — you may spend most of your time focusing on what not to eat, in addition to other measures like getting enough sleep, exercising, and avoiding stress. But how about foods that help, not hinder, your headache woes? You're in luck, Read more
Over the Fourth of July weekend, four friends and I were all hit with a doozy of a cold, the worst. It even made us question the accepted belief that more people get sick in the Winter. But viruses still survive in the Summer sun, and some people can't fight off infection as well as others. There are ways to protect yourself, which is a must, given all the traveling, eating, and lounge time Read more
Grocery shopping can be a daunting task. That's why a recent article from Prevention magazine really caught my eye. The magazine asked experts who work in the field of food safety what they avoid eating at all costs, and though some of their answers were things I already knew, others were pretty eye opening. Here are a few items to think twice about the next time you're out buying Read more
November is Diabetes Awareness Month and I think we are probably all aware that the incidence of type 2 diabetes is on the rise. Type 2 diabetes, known as adult onset diabetes until recently, is the most common form of diabetes where either the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells just ignore the insulin. Insulin is necessary for the body to convert sugar into energy to fuel our Read more
One of the most common symptoms of stress, pathological nail biting troubles some people 6 million people worldwide. Or so estimates Alain-Raymond van Abbe the Dutch inventor of the "Preventer." Although his background is in marketing and not medicine, van Abbe describes himself as a "problem solver." His solution for nail biting, The Preventer, is essentially a molded mouth guard, worn on Read more
I'm sure we all have a horror story about lice, whether we've been through it ourselves, or saw someone else go through it. Having lice is no fun, and knowing the facts about it can help prevent a horrendous outbreak. It is back-to-school season so let's test your knowledgeo of lice. Source and Source Take the Quiz Read more
Here's good news for all us high strung coffee drinking exercising fanatics . . . A new study has found that your habits could mean that your chances of getting skin cancer are lower than those who skip the java and the gym. We've already learned that caffeine and exercise alone could kill off damaged skin cells, so it makes perfect sense that they work even better when used together. How or why Read more
