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Breast-Feeding Lowers Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Breast-feeding is already known to provide a slew of benefits to mother and baby, and now one more positive can be added to the list: it reduces the ...
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Junk Food Nation: How Parents Are Ruining Kids’ Health

Health experts say diets of children in the United States have deteriorated dramatically over the past two generations, leading to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diabetes, both of ...
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Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs May Increase Diabetes Risk

High doses of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins may increase the risk of diabetes, a new study says. But for those with heart disease, the drugs have ...
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Obesity Costs Some States $15 Billion Per Year

Obesity costs some states as much as $15 billion a year, a new study says. The researchers estimated how much each state spends on obesity-related medical costs each ...
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42% of US Will Be Obese in 2030, Study Predicts

Obesity rates in the United States will continue to rise over the next two decades, a new study says. By 2030, 42 percent of people in the U.S. ...
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Healthy Habits Are Most Contagious Among Similar Friends

Obesity spreads “contagiously” through social networks, claimed a highly publicized 2007 study, and since then, some researchers have been working to use social networks to reverse the nation’s ...
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How Women Deal with Bad Memories Linked with Depression

Certain groups of women may be particularly prone to depression because of the way they deal with negative memories, a new study says. The results show healthy women ...
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Mental Disorders Strike 1 in 5 Adults, Survey Finds

About one in five adults in the United States suffered from a mental disorder during the past year, according to results of a national survey released today (Nov. ...
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Is Your Job Derailing Your Diet?

Whenever I’m having “one of those days” at work, I usually find myself hitting up the snack machine for a mid-afternoon chocolate fix. Yesterday was one of those ...
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9% of Adults with Asthma Say It’s Work Related

Workplace environments continue to be blamed for causing or worsening cases of asthma, according to the latest survey of U.S. workers by the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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