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If You Are Going to Eat Sugar When is the Best Time to Eat It?

Researchers have found that if you are going to eat sugary foods, choosing to eat a small amount in the morning may help you lose weight. In the morning, your body's metabolism is at its most active and you are better able to work off the extra calories...

Filed under: Weight Management, Fructose/Sugar

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Top U.S. Official Claims More than 25% Spent on Healthcare is Total Waste

On his last day on the job, Dr. Donald M. Berwick, the U.S. government official who was in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, said that 20 to 30 percent of health spending is “waste” that provides no benefit whatsoever to patients. He also argued that some...

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Pork: Did Leviticus 11:7 Have It Right?

If popular meats were ranked by their healthiness, pork would be in last place. Pork consumption has a strong epidemiological association with cirrhosis of the liver -- in fact, it may be more strongly associated with cirrhosis than alcohol. There is...

Filed under: Cancer, Food

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New Study Shows Powerful Tool to Increase Your Stem Cells

Researchers have determined that exercise affects the behavior of your muscle stem cells. This finding could lead to new techniques to rehabilitate injured muscle, or to prevent or restore age-related muscle loss. It has long been known that mesenchymal...

Filed under: Aging, Fitness/Exercise

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Simple Habit that Radically Improves Aging Marker

Telomere length -- the length of the terminal caps of your chromosomes -- is considered to be a marker of aging and health. Telomeres become shorter as you grow older. But evidence suggests that exercise can lengthen telomeres. Average telomere length...

Filed under: Aging, Fitness/Exercise

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New Research Indicates Krill Oil is Radically Different from Fish Oil

Dietary supplementation with omega-3 fats, specifically DHA and EPA, is known to have beneficial health effects. A recent study sought to evaluate the efficacy of two different sources of omega 3 fats -- fish oil and krill oil. The researchers performed...

Filed under: Supplements

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The California Whooping Cough Cover Up

2011 was the first year in more than two decades during which there were no deaths from whooping cough. In 2010, 10 infants died from the disease. The number of people who became infected also dropped from 9,000 in 2010 to just 3,000 in 2011. The state...

Filed under: Vaccines

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This Popular Beverage Will Increase Your Stroke Risk by 50%

A new study has shown that drinking diet soda results in an increased risk of vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. The researchers found that people who drank diet soft drinks daily were 43 percent more likely to have suffered...

Filed under: Vitamin D, Heart Disease

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Is Malaria Twice as Deadly as We Think It Is?

Malaria kills almost twice as many people as had previously been believed. Previous estimates had been 655,000 deaths a year, but the actual figure is 1.2 million. The error stemmed from the mistaken assumption that malaria primarily kills children, and...

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More Evidence That Flu Vaccines Are Worthless

High-risk patients with underlying conditions that increase the risk of severe illness and death after influenza infection are among the first of all groups that are targeted to receive flu vaccinations. However, there have been few studies examining...

Filed under: Vaccines, Cold and Flu

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