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After diagnosis, women with breast cancer may cut their risk of dying nearly in half by just instituting simple, modest lifestyle changes—5 or more servings of fruits and veggies a day and walking 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week. But what about preventing breast cancer in the first place?

15 Ways to Change Your Exercise Routine Looking for ways to spice up the exercise routine and add more challenging movements to your day? Here are a few to try if you haven’t already. 1. Give planks a try instead crunches to work that whole core. 2. Interval workouts to rev up the

The Health of Our Nation Do American’s embrace the fact that we are responsible for our own health, or do we as consumers continue to feign the obvious that is at the end of our fork? Ignorance regarding what we eat, how we live, what and whom we believe [government, media,

New UCLA research suggests that the more muscle mass older adults have, the less likely they are to die prematurely. The findings add to the growing evidence that overall body composition — and not the widely used body mass index, or BMI — isa better predictor of all-cause mortality.

The gastrointestinal tract is routinely defined as “a tube approximately 19-22 feet long, running through the body from mouth to anus.” The World Book Dictionary adds that the intestine is “the lower part of the alimentary canal” food from the stomach passes into the intestine for further digestion and for absorption.”

13 Foods to Eat After a Workout If you exercise regularly you know how important is to eat after a workout. The question is what is the optimal food or foods to eat after a workout? We have

  High protein diets do make you lose weight, but at what cost to your health? Heavy cream, whole milk, fried eggs, bacon, pork rinds, beef, cheese, and butter — all these contribute to long-term obesity, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, reproductive cancers, prostate enlargement, autoimmune diseases, and other diseases.

Eating Right: Eight Principles that Can Transform Your Life The benefits of a healthy diet and healthy lifestyle can save your life. There are so many positive reasons to change the way you eat. You will lose body fat, increase your energy, lower your risks of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, have

What is the Rotator Cuff in the shoulder? The rotator cuff is a group of flat tendons, which fuse together and surround the front, back, and top of the shoulder joint like a cuff on a shirtsleeve. These tendons are connected individually to short, but very important, muscles that originate from