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Smoke? Fat? Sedentary? Watch out for heart disease, study says
It’s no surprise that someone who has never smoked, who eats a Mediterranean diet and keeps a normal weight and who exercises regularly is healthy. How healthy? Chances of death from all causes is reduced by 80% over eight years. Pretty healthy....
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Internal Medicine, Cardiologists, Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease, Body Mass Index
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One man stops eating food, lives on liquid goo he calls Soylent, and you can too
Rob Rhinehart has given up food. Really, for 30 days, he didn't eat a single bite. The 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta invented a mixture of vitamins and minerals he calls Soylent. He consumed nothing but Soylent for 30 days, and now he's...
Tags: Science and Technology, Vitamin B7, Health Treatments, Vitamin Therapy, Dietary Supplements
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Calcium, vitamin D pills don't prevent fractures, panel says
More than half of American women over the age of 60 take vitamin D and calcium supplements, but the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said this week that they’re probably wasting their money. In a new recommendations from the federal government&...
Tags: Vitamin D, Mineral Supplements, Post Menopause, Dietary Supplements, New York University
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Supplements we take mostly not ordered by doctors, study says
There is oh, so much publicity about fish oil pills, calcium and vitamin D – let alone the many more unusual dietary supplements. Are Americans persuaded? About half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements, and less than a quarter of the people who...
Tags: American Medical Association, Arthritis, Fatty Acids, Health Treatments, Vitamin Therapy
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Seeking the right recipe for food labels
You can give people all sorts of useful information, but that doesn't mean they'll use it.
Case in point: the Nutrition Facts panels inscribed on nearly every can, box, jug, carton and plastic wrapper in which food has been sold since 1994. These small,...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Obesity, Nutrition, Boston, Drugs and Medicines
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California a cornucopia of natural beauty products
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAs families sit down at the table Thursday to give thanks for a bountiful feast, we can also give thanks for the bounty of California, where the harvest is diverse and year-round. And — more thanks — many of California's abundant crops and...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Behavioral Conditions, Physical Conditions, Olives, Chemotherapy
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Ticket Replay: Michelle Obama's health reform plan for restaurant menus and families dining out
Top of the TicketThe Democrat wants Americans to eat healthier in restaurants, but look what her husband does.... -
Letters: Different views on the need for vitamin D
I was deeply saddened with the Institute of Medicine report that we are a healthy nation in regard to our calcium and vitamin D intakes ["Sweeping Away the Hype About Vitamin D," Dec. 6]. As a physician keenly interested in my patients' nutrition status...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Health Insurance Cost, Drugs and Medicines, Chiropractors, Homeopathy Medicine
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A Chemical Imbalance
Times Staff WriterAs she stared down into a wide-mouthed plastic jar aboard the R/V Discoverer, Victoria Fabry peered into the future. The marine snails she was studying — graceful creatures with wing-like feet that help them glide through the water — had...Tags: Osteoporosis, Ecosystems, Science, Marine Science, Petroleum Industry
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Multivitamins: Do his and hers make a difference?
It's a good thing dietary guidelines aren't laws. If they were, just about all of us could be found guilty. Even if you load fruit onto your whole-grain cereal and pile greens on your sandwiches, chances are you're regularly falling short on one or more...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Men's Health, Iron (dietary supplement), Nutrition, Drugs and Medicines
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EATINGWELL: Chicken Cordon Bleu Burger
EntreeThe classic flavors of Chicken Cordon Bleu -- ham, Swiss cheese and thyme -- inspired this easy chicken burger. We like using regular ground chicken, which is a blend of thigh and drumstick meat, to help keep this burger juicy, but feel free to use 100...Tags: Hamburgers, Iron (dietary supplement), Salt, Nutrition, Shallots
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