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11 Common Health Myths, Busted

nytimes.com | Tara Parker | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Sinus Problems, Women's Health, Men's Health, Nutrition, Milk, Five Second Rule, Doctors, Health Tips, Health Myths, Don't Swallow Your Gum, Superstitions, Sugar, Arthritis, Living News

Myths, half-truths and wives' tales persist in medicine. Sometimes doctors and nurses even believe things that aren't true or at least are unproven. T...

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Is Sugar Addictive?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Health, Addiction, Fat, Weight Loss, Diabetes, Diet, Weight, Obesity, Sugar, Wellness, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

French doctor, Serge Ahmed, of Bordeaux, has been working with rats and giving them the choice between cocaine and sugar. Guess what wins, time and again? That's right, sugar.

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Why Snickers Really Satisfies

Dr. Eric Braverman | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Candy, Dopamine, Braverman, Brain, Health, Healthy Eating, Fast Food, Personal Health, Overeating, Sugar, Living News
Dr. Eric Braverman

Lots of people notice that eating candy bars or other sweets gives them a quick pickup, but what they don't know is the long term damage that this type of eating is doing to your brain.

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Is Your Fat, Your Fault?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Food Addiction, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Addiction, Fat, Weight Loss, Obesity, Craving, Sugar, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Comparing the brains of obese vs. lean individuals gets interesting results.

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Why Are We Americans So Fat? (Part Three)

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Sugar Addiction, Health, Addiction, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Weight, Bulimia, Craving, Sugar, Food, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Not only do bulimics get the dopamine high, they also avoid the inevitable weight gain their high calorie binges would produce if they didn't purge.

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The Outer Wrapper is Only the Outer Wrapper

Lisa Guest | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Therapy, Book Covers, Strangers, 99 Cent Stores, Trans Fats, Sugar, Living News
Lisa Guest

Somehow in just a few minutes, a bright educated woman and I were discussion therapy, relationships with our mothers, and the importance of daily walking. All that in about fifteen minutes.

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Sugar Gets It Right on Domican Baseball Players

Lou Melendez | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Domican Republic, Baseball, Minor-League-Baseball, Baseball Players, Sugar, Sugar Movie, Entertainment News
Lou Melendez

Sugar depicts the journey of a young Dominican ballplayer to the minor leagues in the United States. What I saw on the screen was as close to reality as one could see.

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Three Weeks to Thinner Thighs: Exercise Optional!

Anne Dunev | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

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Anne Dunev

Without starving yourself, without diet pills or gimmicks, even without exercise, it is possible to have thinner, smoother thighs in three weeks.

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High Fructose Corn Syrup: A Sweet Surprise For America?

Tara Stiles | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living

Read More: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Diabetes, Obesity, Health, Sugar, Personal Health, Living News
Tara Stiles

If you google "High Fructose Corn Syrup," the first thing that pops up is www.sweetsurprise.com. It's a sponsored link, right at the top. Go to the ...

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How Do I Survive a Winter Storm? -- 5 Myths Debunked

Ben Sherwood | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Winter Storm, Snow, Professor Popsicle, Hypothermia, Cold, Survival, How to Survive a Winter Storm, Cold Weather, Snow Storms, The Survivors Club, Catch a Cold, Alcohol, Sugar, Green News
Ben Sherwood

Some 95 percent of those who perish in cold water aren't actually hypothermic. The cold doesn't kill them -- it's the terror, which leads to drowning and heart attacks.

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Secrets to Avoiding Winter Flu Blues

Anne Dunev | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Homeopathic Remedies, Cold, Cold Remedies, Natural, Vermont, Flu, Natural Food, Frank Lloyd Wright, Homeopathy, Los Angeles, Sugar, Stress, Prevention, Burbank, Winter Heating, Viruses, Flu Season, Health, Living News
Anne Dunev

Studies indicate it is not the cold of winter that causes an increase in flu, but the lowered humidity.

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The One Unchanging Rule of Health

Anne Dunev | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Pesticides, Personal Health, Nutrition, Health, Fat, Neurotoxin, Health Care, Sugar, Vegetarian, Vegan, Diet, Food Matters, Eating Matters, Food, Living News
Anne Dunev

Improve your nutrition. This is the one thing you can always do which is never ill-advised and will always improve your condition.

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Staying in the Lead on Biofuel Development -- Part 2

Bob Dinneen | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Ethanol, Cellulosic Fuel, Biofuels, Biofuel, Brazil, Fuel Efficiency, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Dioxide, Science, Environmentalism, Green Energy, Sugar, Cellulosic Ethanol, Corn-Based Ethanol, Alternative Fuels, Environment, Green News
Bob Dinneen

Producing ethanol from cellulose can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 86% compared to gasoline according to the US Department of Energy, and ethanol can be produced in almost every part of the country.

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22 Tips For Navigating The Holiday Table

Dr. Nicholas Perricone | Posted 01.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Skincare, The Balanced Life, Anti-Inflammatory, Pro-Inflammatory, Holiday Table, Dermatology, Sweet Potatoes, Dr. Perricone, Youthful, Squash, Eating Lightly, Green Foods, Glycemic Levels, Holiday Eating, Radiant Skin, Healthy Eating, Holidays, Blood Sugar, Pasta, Avoid Weight Gain, Personal Health, Weight Gain, Wrinkle-Free Skin, Sugar, Green Tea, Dermatologist, Overindulgence, Pastry, Bread, Health, Cinnamon, Seasonal Eating, Processed Foods, Insulin, Living News
Dr. Nicholas Perricone

Thanks to indulgence, holidays are a time of accelerated aging. I can't promise you a Benjamin Button experience, but I can help you to enjoy the bounty, preventing a mutiny of the body!

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Sweet Surprise

Christiana Wyly | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Children's Health Foundation, Children, Corn, Sweetener, Green Living, Parenting, Childhood Nutrition, Subsidies, Sugar, Childhood Obesity, Nutrition, Tv, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Children's Health, Soil, Video, Chf, Living News
Christiana Wyly

What are we starving for? We are addicted to corn like we are addicted to sugar like we are addicted to oil. It's the cheap oil that enables the production of the cheap corn in the first place.

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Why Is It Easier To Buy A Gun Than High-Fructose Corn Syrup?

Sophie Brickman | Posted 12.20.2008 | Style

Read More: High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Dining, Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Eating, Sweeteners, Culinary School, Sugar, Style News
Sophie Brickman

Is high fructose corn syrup a drug? Will people soon figure this out and start producing manipulated corn syrup in their bathtubs under the cover of night?

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French Women Don't Get Fat? It's the Sugar!

Pamela Newton | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style

Read More: Germany, Food, Cane Juice, Weight Loss, Sucrose, Diet, French Women, Glucose, Fructose, Healthfood, Sugar, Style News
Pamela Newton

I have taken the research to a new level, and have turned my own body into a test case for theories about European vs. American diets.

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Gumbo Granny Blogs From the Bayou for Obama

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.26.2008 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Grandmere, Wounded Bird, Southern Culture, Recovery, Louisiana, Hurricanes, Sugar Cane, Obama, Grandmothers, Sugar, Bayou, Gay Rights, Thibodaux, Cajuns, Zydeco, Raceland, Obama Bloggers, Barack Obama, Obama Louisiana, Bloggers Obama, Josh Marshall, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

What you hear again and again here in South Louisiana is that no one has the TIME to work on campaigning. Most families are still recovering from thre...

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Addicted to Oil, Addicted to Sugar

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 10.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Paris Hilton, Oil, Addiction, Iphone, Obesity, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Sugar, Living News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

There are some striking parallels between the gas crisis and the obesity crisis. Clamoring for cheaper gas and offshore drilling is the equivalent of looking for a way to keep eating crap and not get fat.

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Apple "Fries" Versus Frosting Shot: Which is the Better Invention?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Fruit, Delicious, Invention, Dessert, Frosting, Food, Apples, Fries, Obesity, Shot, Sugar, Business News
Leslie Goldman

Which is better? Taking my favorite dessert, distilling it down to the very essence of its being and serving it in a shot glass, or a mass-produced fast food snack that gets children psyched about eating fruit?

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