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Fitness & Well-Being

Fitness & Well-Being

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Take charge of your health with tips about exercise, diet and overall environmental health.

  • Inadequate sleep may make you eat more

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 5:30 PM by Karen Rowan, MyHealthNewsDaily

    Participants who lived for two weeks in a sleep lab gained almost two pounds over a five-night period when they were limited to five hours of sleep nightly.

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  • Aspirin may prevent melanoma in women

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 2:57 PM by Cari Nierenberg, MyHealthNewsDaily

    It's too soon to advise that people at high risk for melanoma start taking an aspirin a day, especially since regular use of the pain reliever is not without risks.

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  • Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 10:45 AM

    Video: A spokesman says the anti-apartheid icon and former president of S. Africa has returned to his home in Johannesburg.

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  • Norovirus cases on the rise worldwide

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 10:41 AM by Jenn Savedge

    Norovirus, the highly infectious stomach bug, has been closing schools, docking cruise ships, and hammering unsuspecting restaurant patrons in recent weeks.

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  • Cholesterol levels rise in winter, study finds

    Fri, Mar 08, 2013 12:00 PM by Jenn Savedge

    New study finds patients' levels of 'bad' cholesterol were 8 percent higher in the winter than in summer.

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  • Jim Carrey raves about new 'blissful' diet

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 2:15 PM by Michael d'Estries

    Actor is just over 2 weeks into a new eating regimen that he says gives him clarity and contentment.

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  • Companies band together to fight childhood obesity

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 11:57 AM

    Video: Former Sen. Bill Frist and Newark Mayor Cory Booker serve as honorary vice chairmen of Partnership for a Healthier America, a nonprofit that’s on a mission to fight childhood obesity.

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  • And the fattest U.S. state is...

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 11:07 AM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    The national obesity rate sits at 26.2 percent in 2012, hardly changed from the 2011 rate of 26.1 percent.

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  • Breast cancer genetic testing gets covered by health care reform

    Wed, Mar 06, 2013 7:00 PM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

    Myriad Genetics, the company that makes the test for the breast cancer genes, said that the U.S. government considers the tests to be preventive services.

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  • Valerie Harper diagnosed with terminal brain cancer

    Wed, Mar 06, 2013 9:52 AM by Michael d'Estries

    The actress best known for her role as Rhoda on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' reportedly has about 3 months to live.

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  • In sickness, marriage may not boost health

    Tue, Mar 05, 2013 5:20 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Studies have found that married people report better health than people who aren't, but marriage may not do much to help those who are seriously ill.

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  • Emerging superbug requires urgent action, CDC says

    Tue, Mar 05, 2013 3:00 PM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

    During the first six months of 2012, nearly 200 U.S. hospitals and long-term acute care facilities treated at least one person who had been infected by the superbug.

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  • What is sleep paralysis?

    Tue, Mar 05, 2013 1:25 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    If you wake up unnerved, can't move and feel like something's crushing the life out of you, you're not crazy — you just suffer from sleep paralysis.

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  • Sex is better for headaches than painkillers

    Tue, Mar 05, 2013 11:08 AM by Starre Vartan

    It might not always be convenient, but a 'roll in the hay' may cure your migraine.

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  • Alligator blood as an antibiotic?

    Tue, Mar 05, 2013 9:21 AM

    Video: Researchers at McNeese State University in Louisiana say they have made a potential medical breakthrough.

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