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Health Rules You Can Bend - Workouts
9. Never skip workouts. Being physically active is good for you. But once in awhile, getting extra rest can refresh your mind and body and help prevent exercise burnout, notes Stephen Ball, PhD, associate professor of exercise physiology at the University of Missouri. So cut yourself some slack
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Health Rules You Can Bend - Weights
11. A woman shouldn't lift weights unless she wants bulky muscles. Women don’t have enough testosterone or other male androgen hormones needed to really bulk up. Lifting low to moderate amounts of weight, multiple times, tones muscles but does not oversize them, notes Jonathan Chang, MD, clinical
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Having a Bad Air Day? Improve Your Indoor Air Quality
You may be having a bad air day every day -- and we are not talking about outdoor air. The indoor air quality in your home may be affecting your health and the health of your family members. "Indoor air quality can be worse than outdoor air quality in almost every case,” says William J. Calhoun, MD,
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75 Ways To Be Your Healthiest Ever
From its first year of publication, GH has urged readers to live healthfully — to take "a walk before breakfast" (1885), "eat more fish" (1932), and get "at least eight hours of sleep" (1933). The tips here, whether from our early days or fresh from the latest journals, have one thing in common: The
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Age, Drinking Raise Women's Gout Risk
March 30, 2010 -- Women have a lower risk of developing gout than men, even when they have the same blood levels of the chemical that causes the painful, inflammatory arthritis, new research shows. Gout has traditionally been thought of as a disease of older men, but older women get it, too. A recen
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New Drug Eases Menstrual Cramps
March 23, 2010 -- An experimental new drug may ease menstrual cramps by targeting the cause rather than the symptom of the pain. Researchers say the drug, now in phase II clinical trials in the U.K. and U.S., works by blocking the hormone vasopressin, which is involved in contractions of the uterus.
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The New HPV Test You Should Ask Your Doctor About
By Shari Sims There's a new, more sensitive way to screen for cervical cancer — yet only 15 percent of doctors are using it. Why the Pap may no longer be enough. Suppose there were a screening test for cervical cancer that could detect potential dangers with far more sensitivity than the Pap. A test
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Belly Fat Is Culprit in Stroke Gender Gap
Feb. 25, 2010 (San Antonio) -- The midlife gender gap in stroke rates continues to widen, with women aged 45 to 54 now three times more likely than men in that age group to report having had a stroke. Several years ago, the same researchers reported that between 1999 and 2004, women aged 45 to 54 we
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Jennifer Love Hewitt Dishes Dating Advice in 'The Day I Shot Cupid'
With a name like Love, how could you not be a hopeless romantic? As a child, Jennifer Love Hewitt -- born a week after Valentine's Day -- says she refused to believe that the day wasn't created just for her. But as an adult who's been both lucky and unlucky in love, most of it on the front page of t
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New Way to Predict Women's Heart Risk
Feb. 16. 2010 -- New guidelines for predicting women's heart disease risk, updated in 2007 by the American Heart Association (AHA), work well, according to researchers who put the new strategy to the test. The guidelines recommend a simplified approach to assessing a woman's heart disease risk, cate
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