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EatingWell: The No. 1 Health Problem You Haven't Heard Of (And 10 Ways To Beat It)

2012-05-29T08:13:16Z

Here's the thing: under normal circumstances, some inflammation is a good thing -- it's your body's natural protective response to an illness or injury.

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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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Tom Arnold: A New Commitment To Food Security From G8, But Empty Promises Remain

2012-05-24T17:55:09Z

Among so many world leaders and high-level representatives from civil society and academia, I felt a sense of critical mass beginning to form in the fight to end global hunger.

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David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition Guidance: Facts About Opinions About Facts

2012-05-22T18:00:01Z

There is an intrinsic problem with measuring the quality of a system by how well it conforms to what you already believe. Such a system gets bonus points for agreeing with you -- even when you are wrong.

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Robynne Anderson: From Pledges to Progress: G8 Leaders Must Take Action Now

2012-05-22T12:00:54Z

By 2050, there will be 9 billion people living on our planet, and to feed these people we are going to need 70 percent more food to meet demand. That's a big challenge, and one that requires commitments and investment from world leaders to help overcome.

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Dr. Sharon Ufberg: Top 5 Reasons Women Seek Holistic Remedies

2012-05-21T11:14:23Z

Apparently, there are a lot of tired women wondering how to feel renewed and re-energized. Here is nutritional therapist and herbalist China Rose Reid's list of the top five complaints that she hears from women, along with some of her suggestions.

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Mark Hyman, MD: Can Social Networks Cure Disease?

2012-05-20T11:31:45Z

After Haiti I realized that the answer had to be somewhere else. If social networks can promote unhealthy lifestyles, maybe we can use social networks to create health.

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Heather Bauer, RD, CDN: What Food Labels Really Mean

2012-05-20T10:41:24Z

For most, deciphering nutrition labels can be like reading hieroglyphics. It can be time-consuming and thankless. I'm committed to providing my readers as much accurate nutrition information as possible.

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Lisa Firestone: What's Behind Emotional Overeating?

2012-05-20T09:03:00Z

By taking action on a physical level and taking interest on an emotional level, we can re-establish our relationship with food, with our bodies, with our past, and with ourselves as a whole.

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Samuel A. Worthington: Dear G8: Be Bold And Inclusive In Tackling Hunger

2012-05-19T11:34:53Z

As an amateur climber for 20 years, I learned that to scale daunting cliffs and ice, two core attributes are required -- courage and teamwork. You probably feel like you have been climbing your own mountain after two days of G8 talks at Camp David

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Marisa Moore: Women's Health Week: 7 Simple Tips for Heart Health

2012-05-18T18:30:18Z

While breast cancer gets a lot of attention in the media and is certainly a concern, heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States and a leading cause of disability among women. Here are seven simple changes you can make to begin nurturing your heart at any stage of your life.

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Teen Ambivalence Towards Pregnancy Points To Social Problems, Says Study

2012-05-18T18:15:38Z

By: Robyn Gee

A new report by Melissa Kearney and Philip Levine at the University of Maryland, suggests that common ideas about teenage pre...

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Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: The Slow-Down Diet: Enjoying Food, Feeling Better

2012-05-18T12:13:11Z

Have you ever been sitting at a meal with someone, or even by yourself, and been halfway through the meal without having tasted the food? In my experience, the odds are likely that you'll be nodding your head up and down.

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Paul Spector, M.D.: Sweet Nothings? Sugar Substitutes and Weight Gain

2012-05-17T16:16:00Z

When man tampered with nature and uncoupled the sweetness sensory signal from caloric load, a pairing that we adjusted to for thousands of generations, our capacity to know when we had enough was eradicated.

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Marisa Moore: 7 Strategies to Slim Down for Summer

2012-05-14T15:17:17Z

The unofficial start of summer is just weeks away. If the thought of baring your arms, legs and belly this summer make you want to run for the cover ups, read on. These slimming strategies can help you jumpstart your weight loss in time for your first barbeque or stroll on the beach.

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Victoria Quinn: A Human Yardstick

2012-05-13T09:00:00Z

We believe that investments in national and economic development should use the growth of children as the best and most accurate yardstick to measure success.

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Mark Hyman, MD: Sugar Babies: The Rise Of 'Adult Onset' Diabetes In Children

2012-05-12T10:17:47Z

What are you doing in your home, your family, in your schools and communities to end the attack on our children and our nation's future? We have the power to take back our health.

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Lane Hartill: A Mother's Toughest Question: How Will I Feed My Children?

2012-05-11T08:29:00Z

President Obama, to borrow Dr. Martin Luther King's phrase, we are in the "fierce urgency of now." The G8 needs to find the political will to end malnutrition. Pledge to save 15 million children from chronic malnourishment. Don't just say it; do it.

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EatingWell: Foods That Reduce Your Risk of Allergies and Asthma

2012-05-11T08:15:27Z

Can a healthy diet help you breathe easier? Some research says "yes." But there are also a lot of unproven dietary strategies touted help manage allergies and asthma. What works? What doesn't?

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David Katz, M.D.: Mind-Boggling Nutrition Guidance? You Betcha'!

2012-05-11T08:07:00Z

The National Consumers League, claiming to represent consumers' interests, issued a press release this week announcing they had submitted a complaint to the FDA, asking the agency to banish NuVal from the nation's supermarkets.

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David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition: Where Health Meets The Real World

2012-05-08T20:00:16Z

When it comes to nutrition and the monumental influence it has on our health, the rubber hits the road wherever people and food come together. Kitchens and cafeterias. Schools and workplaces. Supermarkets and restaurants.

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Kelly Dorfman: Fifty Shades of Grey : The Nutrition Footnotes

2012-05-08T16:11:00Z

People obviously enjoy reading about having sex but if they actually want to be having more sex, being in good nutrition shape is critical. Plenty of people do not have enough stamina for plain old sex, let alone the exhausting gyrations depicted in the erotic bestseller.

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Elysabeth Alfano: Chef Art Smith's Common Threads Brings Us Back Together

2012-05-08T15:02:29Z

Last Thursday evening brought one of those rare events where you feel that you have been transported to another dimension in time.

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Ashley Koff: Energy Ups and Downs? Your Caffeine-Drinking May Be to Blame

2012-05-08T12:07:17Z

Last week, I shared these tips with Dr. Oz and his audience, but here's a deeper look and some extra tips for anyone trying to drink their way out of energy ups and downs.

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Yogurt Diet Tied To Testicle Size In Strange Mouse Study

2012-05-06T11:18:27Z

Last summer a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to better understand the effects of yogurt on obesity. T...

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