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The best weight-loss strategy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs a nation, we are obviously getting fatter and fatter. Not only are we ever more confused about how to lose weight, we're particularly fuzzy on the question of how big a role exercise plays and whether we just have to count calories. So, here's the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Diets and Dieting, Overweight, Weight Loss, National Institutes of Health
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Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
Patients who lack health insurance are more likely to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than people who belong to a health plan -- even though emergency rooms are required to care for all comers regardless of ability to pay, according to...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Surgery, Health Insurance, Injuries and Wounds, Hospitals and Clinics
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Red carpet beauty care
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWhen actresses begin parading on the Emmy red carpet Sunday, they will be glamorously gowned and coiffed — and it will be no accident that their skin glows and makeup looks perfect for the cameras. It can take a village of experts and weeks of...Tags: Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Somerville, Newspaper and Magazine, Hospitals and Clinics
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Group recommends less-frequent Pap tests
Only days after a federal panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations for many women, another organization -- the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- has done the same for a screening credited with drastically...Tags: Advice Columns and Columnists, Diseases and Illnesses, Kathleen Sebelius, Arts and Culture, Women's Health
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Science and religion: natural adversaries?
Today's topic: Biologist Stephen J. Gould famously observed that religion and science deal with different but compatible realities. Was he correct?
A god definable by science is no god Point: Michael Shermer
Cartoonist Sidney Harris once illustrated...Tags: Albert Camus, Biology, Education, Geology, Religious Texts
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Obesity Risks Start Before Birth
Pam Levin's daughter weighed less than 5 pounds at birth. But by the time the child turned 3, Levin and her husband had begun to bristle at some of the comments about her. "People would say, ‘She's chunky' or ‘She's a big girl,'" Levin says....Tags: Family, Minority Groups, Heart Disease, Diets and Dieting, Newspaper and Magazine
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Muffin top? Now that it's official, what do we do with it?
With the first stirrings of spring, so, too, have come the first sightings of extra flesh spilling over the tops of low-slung jeans and jiggling beneath belly-baring cropped tops. If you call that roll of abdominal adiposity a "muffin top," you're in...Tags: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Behavioral Conditions, Health
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3 U.S. scientists share Nobel Prize in medicine
Three U.S. scientists who discovered key aspects of how cells and animals age and how cancer cells become immortal have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco, Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins...Tags: Animals, George W. Bush, Johns Hopkins University, Nobel Prize Awards, Education
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Be wary of products touting FDA certification
If you're shopping for a pill or gadget to trim your waistline, grow your hair or generally make you feel better, you probably take comfort in the words "FDA approved" or "FDA registered."
Even in a time of widespread distrust of government, most...Tags: Services and Shopping, Companies and Corporations, Vitamin Therapy, Hospitals and Clinics, Corporate Crime
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Health product claims overshoot the runway of reason
It's frighteningly easy to drop a couple of hundred dollars on a holiday present. If you're considering spending big money on a health-related gift, you'll want to make sure that it will do something besides take up space in the gift bag.
Unfortunately,...Tags: Back Pain, Surgery, Common Cold, Health and Medical Professionals, Republic of Ireland
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Increase in breast-feeding could save lives and billions of dollars
Associated PressThe lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90% of U.S. mothers breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says. Those results, to be published online Monday in the journal...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Infants, Obesity, Children, Diabetes
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The 'contagion' of social networks
The old folk concept that our personal health behaviors rub off on those around us has received a staggering amount of scientific support of late. Over the last few years, study after study has shown that weight gain, drug and alcohol use, even loneliness...Tags: Suicide, Recreational Substance Use, Common Cold, Newspaper and Magazine, Overweight
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