Today is Thursday
Jan 08, 2009
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Get moving and fight arthritis
Monday, April 30, 2007
Control the disease; don’t let it control you
“About half the people who have osteoarthritis don’t know they have it. They just assume, ‘I am getting older, so aches and pains are natural,’” says Patience White, M.D., chief public health officer of the Arthritis Foundation.
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Skin cancer risks rise as you age
Monday, April 30, 2007
What you need to know to fight it
“Some of my older patients feel that since they aren’t in the sun anymore, they can’t get skin cancer. But remember, you have been exposed since you were running around as a two-year-old without sunscreen,” says Angela Bowers, M.D., a dermatologist at Baylor Medical Center in Grapevine, Tex.
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Chocolate lovers rejoice!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Ever since Columbus brought cocoa beans from the New World to Europe, people have been infatuated with this sweet treat. We learned to make chocolate—a combination of cocoa beans, vanilla, sugar, and milk.
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On the defense—your immune system
Monday, April 30, 2007
The better you protect it, the better it protects you
“You may not think you know your immune system, but you do. You feel your swollen neck glands when you get sick, which is an example of your immune system’s first line of defense,” says Mark Samuelson, M.D., an Erickson Health physician at Linden Ponds, a community in Massachusetts built and managed by Erickson.
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