Drinking coffee has long been associated with a multitude of health benefits, but it looks like we can now add another one to the list.
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When I was in medical school more than 32 years ago, the incidence of autism was 1 in 10,000. Today, the incidence has climbed to less than 1 in 50, according to CDC statistics...
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Is stepping onto the scale part of your morning routine? How about post-workout? Before bed? All of the above? For some of us, weighing ourselves is a reassuring...
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Read the featured article from our ELT! Magazine Winter 2015 Issue, and get the down low of Essential Oils from our expert senior contributor Jillian Kinsman-Barrett...
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Skipping sugar may be the current craze, but if you’re eliminating organic fruit from your diet you’re doing yourself a disservice...
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Cooking is a dirty business. Think about it: butchering or chopping meat can be a bloody mess, grease splatters all over the stove, and baking—impossible to do without leaving a...
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Whether you’re buying $100 sunglasses from a high-end department store or $10 sunglasses from your local drugstore, there’s just one thing you need to keep in mind: Make sure they block 100 percent of ultraviolet rays.
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A new survey shows that many of us are pretty lazy when it comes to our teeth-cleaning habits. In a poll of 562 people around the world (including 332 Americans), 49% of men and 57% of women said they brush their teeth only once a day....
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As temperatures fall and frolicking in the snow becomes the playtime du jour, watch out for this tricky condition. Even if you don’t live in some ice-swept polar extreme, watch your little ones for frostbite. A kid engrossed in snow-play won’t want to stop to warm up, points out Yaffa Gewirtz, MD....
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A tragic story was recently published by the St. Louis Post-Disptach chronicling the death of a 7-month old child at a day care facility in St. Louis. "Owen Haber was about 19 pounds the day he was found on his abdomen not breathing in a crib at a state-licensed child care center in Webster Groves..
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October is national SIDS awareness month and although it’s being highlighted this month, it’s important to stay educated and diligent all year. Here are tips, guidelines and recommendations to keep your little ones safe and reduce the occurrence of SIDS.
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Chocolate is frightening if you're allergic to milk, and a candy bar with nuts can be deadly. With eggs, soy and wheat also common allergies in kids, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, finding treats without tricks can be a challenge on Halloween night.
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A quick rinse of water is so last season. Walk into any grocery store these days, and you’ll more than likely find an array of squirt bottles and sprays nestled between baskets of carrots and kumquats, all promising to prime your produce for consumption...
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You’re hacking, sneezing, wheezing and as a result, you’re desperate for relief, no matter how it comes. So you start playing doctor, convinced you’ll land on something, anything, to make the funk go away a little bit faster. Maybe you get lucky and find a cure for your coughing....
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If you constantly crank up your iPod, it is entirely possible to get what’s called noise-induced hearing loss. (It’s why people who work construction or at airports wear protective headphones to block out noise and why you should stick earplugs in at rock concerts.) The basic mechanics go like this: When a single blast of an extremely loud sound, like an explosion, or repetitive sounds, such as factory noise...
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These kids may not be old enough to drink coffee, but they care how it’s served — a group of 4th and 5th graders at the Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts, are begging Dunkin’ Donuts to stop making coffee cups with its signature Styrofoam. Their efforts have caught attention of the donut and coffee mega-chain and on Friday the little activists took part in a meeting with execs at corporate headquarters.
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When it comes to nutrients, one would think the fresher the source, the better. Tomatoes must be the exception that proves the rule. While health studies continue to demonstrate the myriad benefits of lycopene, a phytochemical abundant in tomatoes, nutritional studies present a twist: You get more lycopene from a processed or cooked tomato than you do from a fresh one.
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Some of the best things about beach season: boardwalks, babes, and bikinis. Unfortunately, you might have to dodge the worst things first--jellyfish stings, sand filled with feces, and lethal rip currents--to get to the beautiful women. Make your beach day disaster-free by avoiding these seaside health hazards.
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Evolutionary psychologists believe that we see flowers and plants as a subconscious cue of safety ("Things can grow here-let's set down roots"), reward ("All that foraging paid off") and promise ("These buds mean that fruit is on the way"). So the sight of a colorful bouquet in the morning, they theorize, can convince you that everything's coming up roses today.
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Lovers of bottled fruit juices may have to rethink their infatuation. A new report from researchers at the University of Glasgow in the U.K. equated your glass of fruit juice to your can of soda--just with a few more vitamins.
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