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The connection between sleep and fat loss
Of all of the contributors to fat loss, proper sleep could be the biggest. While you're sleeping, your body undergoes an amazing series of processes. Sleep is a time when your body repairs damaged tissue and tries to return your cells back to "normal."...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hydrocortisone
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The what-if prescription
Leave it to some thoughtful physicians to put good medicine ahead of good politics. Last year, the Obama administration wrongly chose to limit access of teens to the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B. This week, pediatricians are urging their...Tags: Plan B (drug), Chemical Industry, Family Planning, American Academy of Pediatrics, Food and Drug Administration
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Keeping healthy over the holidays takes some advance planning
The holidays are in full swing and for most people that means lots of opportunities to eat delicious, high-calorie foods that they normally don't eat during the rest of the year. According to the Calorie Control Council, during Thanksgiving alone,...
Tags: Gifts, Services and Shopping, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Holidays, Hydrocortisone
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Alternative treatment: A look at acupuncture
Acupuncture may be ancient — estimates range between 3-4,000 years old — but it is not an ancient Chinese secret. It's used all over the world by acupuncture practitioners as well as medical doctors. We spoke with two experts to learn more....
Tags: Common Cold, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Back Pain, Knees, Drugs and Medicines
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Many Muslims gain weight during Ramadan fasting
World NowThe sun slips beyond the Nile and the fast is broken. As they have done for centuries during the holy month of Ramadan, Egyptians hurry home through the twilight to eat and drink after a long, scorching day. Fasting renews the spirit but it often does... -
National Garden Bureau: Reference this glossary of gardening terms for everyday use
How many times have you read a gardening article, looked at a website or catalog and wondered, "What does that mean?" Thanks to National Garden Bureau member Park Seed, we've excerpted their list of garden terms for your referral during the garden...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks, Travel
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Researchers eye saliva for patient testing
No one likes to get stuck with a needle.
But it's the only way doctors can get blood to test for diabetes, anemia and numerous other health problems.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing say there is a much less invasive and...Tags: Medical Research, Children's Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Hydrocortisone, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Motherhood can be the ultimate selfless gesture
Becoming a mother can be one of the most selfless and loving gestures a woman makes. In the course of bringing new life into the world, a woman experiences a host of physical and emotional changes, some of which may be long-lasting and undesired. The...
Tags: Swelling, Mood Swings, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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May 19: Chicago Scene - SELF Workout in the Park
WGN NewsSELF Workout in the Park Saturday, May 21 Butler Field, Grant Park 350 East Monroe Street 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Rain or Shine! Special Guest Appearance on the Main Stage in Chicago: Alison Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser and author Tickets will be...Tags: Vitamin C, Pilates, Oranges, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Grant Park
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Extra pounds tied to breast cancer recurrence, death
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among women who have been treated for breast cancer, heavier women are more likely to have their disease come back and more likely to die of cancer, according to a new study. That could be because certain hormones that are...Tags: Medical Research, Weight Loss, Death, Cancer, Overweight
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Research looks at how to better fight breast cancer in African-American women
It is well documented that African-American women with breast cancer are more likely to have a more aggressive type of the disease that kills them, but why remains a mystery.
The answers may be found one day soon, as researchers focus more on the genetic...Tags: Medical Research, Biology, Health and Medical Professionals, Death, Cancer
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Understanding insulin resistance
Though you may not be living with diabetes, your body could be battling against the hormone insulin. The condition, called insulin resistance, occurs when insulin can't effectively do its job. "People often don't realize that insulin resistance can...Tags: Chemical Industry, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Pancreas, Africa, Insulin
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