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Wellcast : Vitamin B12 Are You Getting Enough?
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There are amazing healthy benefits to eating leafy green vegetables. Here’s one more reason from the News Target Citizen Journalism Report.
Instead of bulging biceps, maybe Popeye should be shown with smooth, unblemished calves. Here’s why: A recent study published in the Journal of Vascular Research has found that the protein MPG that causes the [...]

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A small study links the type of bacteria living in the gut to a desire for chocolate. We all have trillions of bacteria living in our digestive tracts, but people who crave daily chocolate show signs of having different colonies of bacteria than people who are immune to the craving of chocolate.
The co-author of the [...]

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Nearly 230 Idaho residents have contracted a waterborne parasite this year, along with hundreds of others across the Rocky Mountain West. Fifty six cases were reported in Colorado in August, which is more than four times the usually number of cases reported that time of year. Other western states such as Wyoming, Kansas, and North [...]

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Learn how you can help the environment! It just might save your life.

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What a great advertisement to quit smoking.

We generally think most drug advertising is boring, very boring or terribly boring. And since “we” have worked for several ad agencies for many years, and also hired many agencies, we are allowed to say this.
But this ad is anything but boring. Made in Norway.
“Ready to quit?” It [...]

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Some interesting things about bacteria that you may not have known.

1  A seventh grader in Florida recently won her school science fair by proving there are more bacteria in ice machines at fast-food restaurants than in toilet bowl water.
2  NASA recently spent $23.4 million designing a toilet for the Space Shuttle that would defy zero [...]

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We have a disease in this country that has hit epidemic proportions. That disease is called Obesity. This article takes a look at why we eat and how most of us eat unconsciously. Read more…
We are powerless to ignore the clarion call of the candy jar, the beckoning of the buffet, the summons [...]

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October is Breast Awareness Month.
And if you haven’t noticed, just look around and you’ll see “pink” almost everywhere you turn. Well, another new study found that a western diet of red meat, starches and sweets increases the risk for breast cancer among post-menopausal Chinese women.
In this study, researchers identified dietary patterns among women in the [...]

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