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Which Color Tortilla Chip Is Healthiest?
A new study shows blue ’s best when it comes to packing the most nutrition into a taco shell or bowl of tortilla chips.
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Top 9 Fitness Myths — Busted!
Think you know the facts about getting fit? You may be surprised to learn how many are really fiction. Fitness Myth No. 6: If you’re not working up a sweat, you’re not working hard enough.
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Fact or Fiction?: Antiperspirants Give You Alzheimers
For some, the thought of abandoning antiperspirants gives them the cold sweats. For others, it’s the thought of using them. Underarm antiperspirants guard against odor and wetness, but could the aluminum-based compounds that reduce sweat actually cause Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer? (Scientific American Takes a Look)
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Breast implants linked with suicide in study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who get cosmetic breast implants are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Girl dies of brain tumor after doctors tell her ‘headaches are just stress’
[A woman who had complained to her GP of severe headaches for almost a year collapsed and died of an undiagnosed brain tumour. Jennifer Bell, 22, had been told she was suffering from stress but after months of illness had finally been referred to a neurologist. But on July 3 last year- only three days before her appointment, she collapsed at home.]
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The 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
Want to do your body a world of good? It’s as easy as expanding your grocery list.
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Court Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that patients with terminal illnesses do not have a constitutional right to use medicines that have not yet won regulatory approval. The 8-to-2 decision by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came in a closely watched…
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