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STUDY: Does Your 'Body Type' Predict Your Health?

Christina Huffington | Posted 01.30.2013 | Women
Read More: Body Shape Health Effects, Health News, Body Type, Metabolism, Body Shape, Health Study, Women's Health, Health Research, Women and Health, Women News

It turns out that "body type" is good for more than just finding out what style bathing suit a women's magazine says is best for your shape. A new...

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Women With Depression Are Less Likely To Effectively Use Birth Control

The Huffington Post | Christina Huffington | Posted 12.17.2012 | Women
Read More: Depression, Sexual Health, Pregnancy, Health Study, Birth Control Pill, Stress, Women's Health, Unwanted Pregnancy, Iuds, Safe Sex, Contraception, Birth Control, Women's Sexual Health, Teen Sex, Unsafe Sex, Condoms, Women News

When you're suffering from depression, it is often difficult to get out of bed, let alone follow daily routines. A new study demonstrates that this di...

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When Will African American Baby Boomers Be Counted

Beverly Mahone | Posted 10.20.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Aging, Baby Boomers, Health Study, Health, African Americans, Beverly Mahone, Bv-Blogs, Black Voices News
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Rarely do I read any health studies or statistics exclusively for older black adults -- unless it has to do with sickle cell anemia. The overwhelming majority of those studies cater to older white adults.

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Teen Obesity: Are High Schools To Blame?

Posted 01.01.2012 | Home
Read More: Smoking, Yourtake, Dieting, Teen-Weight-Loss, Teen Health, Teen Obesity, Weight Loss, Obesity, Health Study, Home News

What keeps people from being able to lose weight? It's often said to be a lack of motivation, but for obese teens, the problem might be a lack of heal...

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7 Ways Friends Keep You Healthy

The Huffington Post | Laura Schocker | Posted 07.02.2011 | Home
Read More: Friendship, Friends Health Study, Friends, Healthy Living Body, Benefits of Friends, Healthy Friendships, Friends Study, Slidepollajax, Health Benefits of Friends, Health Study, Friends Health, Home News

We all know how good a fun night out with a group of friends can feel -- and, turns out, it may actually be just as good for your body as it is for yo...

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STUDY: LA County Ranks 26th of 56 In Health; Orange County In Top 10

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Orange County Health, Los Angeles Health, County Health Rankings, Health Study, Los Angeles News

New county health rankings for every state in the country were released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsi...

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Health Care Concerns: Gap Between Blacks, Whites Widens In Chicago

chicagotribune.com | Deborah L. Shelton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Poverty, Segregation, Race Relations, Health, Chicago, Equal Rights, Race, Health Care, Health Study, Inequality, Chicago News

A widening gulf in the health status of blacks and whites in Chicago comes even as disparities between the two races nationally have remained relative...

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N.F.L. Players' Dementia: Higher Rate Of Dementia In Former Athletes, Study Finds

nytimes.com | ALAN SCHWARZ | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: n.f.l., Nfl, National Football League, Health, Football, Football Dementia, NFL Dementia, Alzheimer's, NFL Alzheimer's, Health Study, Healthy Living News

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer's disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed...

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Eat Less, Live Longer, New Study Says

nytimes.com | Nicholas Wade | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Longevity, Live Longer, Dieting, Health, Science, Diet, Health Study, Eat Less, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News

A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old ag...

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Study: More Evidence Depression Is Hard On The Heart

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Depression Heart Attacks, Depression, Heart Disease, Personal Health, Health Study, Healthy Living News

WASHINGTON — Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman's heart. Doctors have long known that depression is common after a h...

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Low-carb? Low-fat? Study finds calories count more

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Low Carb, Low Calories Study, Low Carb Study, Carbohydrates, Health Study, Healthy Living News

LOS ANGELES — Low-fat, low-carb or high-protein? The kind of diet doesn't matter, scientists say. All that really counts is cutting calories and...

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More Evidence Links Alcohol, Cancer In Women

AP | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Alcohol and Cancer, Health Study, Health, Healthy Living News

WASHINGTON — A study of nearly 1.3 million British women offers yet more evidence that moderate alcohol consumption increases the risk of a hand...

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Study: Diabetes Costs America $218 Billion A Year

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Diabetes Study, Cost of Diabetes, Health, Diabetes, Health Study, Personal Health, Healthy Living News

TRENTON, N.J. — As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world's most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 ...

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