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Mark Hyman, MD: How One Social Experiment Helped 15,000 People Lose 250,000 Pounds

2012-05-27T10:26:33Z

Acute disease can be left to the hospitals, but creating health and healing of chronic disease seems to happen best in the community -- with people helping people where each one of us lives, where we eat, cook, learn, work, play and pray.

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Terri Cole: WATCH: Need a Fearlessness Boost? Get More Sleep!

2012-05-26T11:11:50Z

This week, I want to explore how sleep and fear are related. Their connection is direct and undeniable, as lack of the prior leads to an increase in the latter.

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Mache Seibel, MD: 10 Weight Control Commandments for Fast Food

2012-05-24T18:38:57Z

When you are in the mood for fast food, here are my 10 fast food commandments to to help you control weight.

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10 Easy Ways To Cut Your Life Short

2012-05-24T16:39:00Z

Forget the teenagers. It's boomers who behave as if we are invincible. Every day we jaywalk through our lives, taking proverbial shortcuts and being o...

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Garth Sundem: Salk Study: Eating for Eight Hours Reduces Obesity and Diabetes Risk

2012-05-22T17:13:28Z

Let's get this out of the way: No one's recommending you sit down and eat for eight hours. But a study shows that if you condense the total time you eat each day to only eight hours, you can prevent weight gain and reduce diabetes risk.

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Americans Living Longer With Diabetes: CDC

2012-05-22T16:38:00Z

* Diabetes still leading to shorter life spans * Diabetics less likely to smoke than in the past * Better control of hig...

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WATCH: This Is Your Liver On Obesity

2012-05-21T12:53:30Z

According to a recent report, 42 percent of Americans are projected to be obese by the year 2030, with 11 percent of adults close to a full 100 pounds...

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The Condition Nearly 1 In 4 Teens Are Being Diagnosed With

2012-05-21T00:04:25Z

The number of teens in the U.S. with diabetes or prediabetes has skyrocketed in the last decade, jumping from 9 to 23 percent, new data finds.

Othe...

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Riva Greenberg: Patients' Voices Are Changing Medical Devices

2012-05-17T12:07:59Z

Traditionally pharma and medical device companies design health tools for health care professionals and in clinical settings. What's been missing is any thought about the end user: the patient.

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Gregory Weinkauf: The Needle-Free Future of Echo Therapeutics

2012-05-10T11:32:52Z

The electric car, the mobile phone, the computer tablet: innovations impress me. I tend to give nature's perfect patterns top priority; however, in this field I am also increasingly illuminated by science.

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Slow Down! What Eating Fast May Be Doing To Your Health

2012-05-09T23:47:00Z

Slooooow down, fast eaters!

Research presented at the International Congress of Endocrinology and European Congress of Endocrinology shows that peo...

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Dr. Andrew Weil: Fat-Free Half-and-Half?

2012-05-07T20:00:20Z

No one's health is improved by swapping out natural saturated or monounsaturated fats for skim milk, sugars or processed grains. So if you encounter misbegotten products such as fat-free half-and-half, do what I do -- leave them on the shelf.

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U.S. Health Care Costs Highest In Industrialized World: Study

2012-05-03T13:11:37Z

Health care in America costs more than in other industrialized nation and we aren't even getting the world's best care for our dollars, according to a...

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David Katz, M.D.: Into the Mouths of Babes: The Case for Minding Our Business!

2012-05-01T15:13:17Z

The wellbeing of children is everybody's business, and everybody should mind that children are staring down the barrel of a glow-in-the-dark cheese doodle or sugar-laden cereal loop at foreshadowed health and foreshortened lives.

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Ancient Mummy Suffered Rare And Painful Disease

2012-04-27T15:07:15Z

By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor
Published: 04/27/2012 01:32 PM EDT on LiveScience

Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likel...

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Jeffrey Levi: Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice: Eliminating Health Disparities

2012-04-23T19:55:32Z

All Americans should have the opportunity to lead long, healthy and productive lives. Yet one in two African-American and Hispanic-Latino children born this generation will develop type 2 diabetes as adults. This statistic is unacceptable because it is preventable.

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David Katz, M.D.: A New Kind Of Epidemic: FUN!

2012-04-21T11:03:34Z

Up to a point, we professionals are quite right to note how hard getting to health can be through the obstacle course of the modern day -- for adults and children alike. But there is another story to tell about health, and it is fun. It's all about fun.

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Lisa Belkin: My 5th Grader Was Groped By TSA

2012-04-19T16:36:34Z

A mother has to stand and watch as her 5th grader is marched through the terminal by armed guards, put in a private examination room, then poked and prodded around his groin.

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Judy Farah: Why Are We Getting Fatter?

2012-04-09T12:45:47Z

I live in California: land of a great climate and sunshine. In Sacramento, we have a beautiful 30-mile bike trail along the river where you can cycle, hike, jog or walk. Why was everyone getting fat?

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Mark Hyman, MD: How To Rewire Your Brain To End Food Cravings

2012-04-01T00:32:54Z

I'm a food addict. We all are. Our brains are biologically driven to seek and devour high-calorie, fatty foods. The difference is that I have learned how to control those primitive parts of my brain. Anyone can do this if they know how.

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Miracle Cancer Survivor Makes Wishes Come True For Sick Kids

2012-03-28T11:09:53Z

When Grayson Gilbert was in treatment for a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he didn't doubt for a second that he'd be OK. It did, however, take a litt...

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Mark Hyman, MD: Why the New Surgical Cure for Diabetes Will Fail!

2012-03-27T10:31:07Z

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

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Health Care Reform Repeal Risks This Family

2012-03-23T08:25:47Z

Dawn Josephson could barely believe it when she found health insurance that would actually cover the cost of treating her young son’s eye condition....

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Ilaina Edison: Health Coaching: The Power Of A High Five

2012-03-22T17:07:47Z

"Health coaching" is a shift in approach from more prescriptive nursing and towards supporting patients in identifying and achieving their own goals.

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Gerard E. Mullin, M.D.: Qnexa: A Magic Bullet for Weight Loss?

2012-03-21T11:07:36Z

I still have many questions about the safety of Qnexa, regardless of its effectiveness. Do the potential risks outweigh the potential benefits? The jury is still out.

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