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Boost Your Heart with This Bad Habit
May 23, 2013

Over the years, you’ve probably heard a lot of doctors tell you to stay out of the sun. “Exposure to the sun is dangerous,” they say. “Being in the sun causes irreversible damage to your skin.” If you’ve been reading the Journal for Healthy Living for a while, you’ve also heard me tell you this [...]

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Try This Oil for Your Heart
May 21, 2013

In our great-grandparent’s day, some nuts were widely available in season. Others were exotic treats reserved for special occasions. For many families, a bag of mixed nuts – in the shell – was a special holiday treat. But walk into any grocery store today, and you can buy all sorts of nuts… in the shell, [...]

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What Your Thanksgiving Turkey Can Teach You About Blood Sugar
May 2, 2013

It’s the classic question at Thanksgiving dinner: “Do you want white meat or dark?” And if University of Michigan researchers are right, it may also be the secret to better blood sugar control. Just like a turkey, you have light and dark muscle. And they’re a lot more different than color. They have different functions [...]

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Use the “George Washington Trick” to Avoid Being Sick
April 29, 2013

Use the “George Washington Trick” to Avoid Being Sick I don’t know if our first president ever heard the old cliché about an apple a day. But his adventure with the cherry tree could have helped keep the doctor away. You’ve probably heard it a hundred times… As a boy, the story goes; Washington chopped [...]

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Long-life Secrets of Centenarians
April 25, 2013

George Burns was one of the funniest men of the 20th century. He’s also remembered as a comic who never retired. As he got older, he simply turned his comedy to the problems – and blessings – of aging. Burns regularly floored audiences with quips like, “When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was [...]

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Busting The Fat Myths Once And For All
April 22, 2013

Good Fat – Bad Fat: Which Fats You Need… and Which to Avoid Talk to many diet experts, and they’ll tell you to avoid fats like the plague. Fats are high in calories. So to stay trim, they tell you, stay away from all fats. But, as you probably know, not all fats are bad. [...]

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