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What Your Jeans Can Tell You

Posted by: | July 11th, 2012 | 1 comment

I know so many women who are married to their scales when they should be married to their jeans. If you vacillate from triumph to despair depending on those three numbers on the scale, remember that your weight can vary depending on the time of the month and other factors. A more accurate gauge of how you are managing your weight is to put on and zip up those jeans in your closet. Your jeans could suddenly be baggy (score!), fit as they always have (terrific!), suddenly be snug (red flag!) or be too tight to get on (alarm bell for behavior change!). View Full Post

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Why You Should Still Take Vitamin D

Posted by: | July 10th, 2012 | 4 comments

Recently the U.S. Preventive Task Force stated that the combination of vitamin D at 400 IUs and calcium at 1000 milligrams cannot be recommended as supplementation to prevent fractures in postmenopausal women. View Full Post

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Oral Health: Americans Need to Brush Up on Their Knowledge

Posted by: | July 10th, 2012 | 0 comments

As a dentist, part of my role is to help people take good care of their dental health. As it turns out, I have my work cut out for me. The American Dental Association recently surveyed people to find out what they know about dental health, and Americans need to brush up on their knowledge. For example, most people surveyed didn’t know that you should floss your teeth every day. Or that you should get a new toothbrush every three months. Or that some bleeding after brushing your teeth is not normal—actually, it can be a sign of gum disease. View Full Post

Treadmill Talks: Breakfast Skippers More Likely to Choose Carbs

Posted by: | July 9th, 2012 | 0 comments

In a new study involving Cornell University students, researchers found that those who skipped breakfast were more likely to reach for less healthy lunch options. Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer for Cleveland Clinic and chair of its Wellness Institute explains how hungry eaters tend to... View Full Post

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Grow Younger This Week!

Posted by: | July 9th, 2012 | 0 comments

A few days ago I walked into my dermatologist’s office for a skin cancer check and walked out with a prescription for Retin-A, a topical medication derived from vitamin A that serves a multitude of skin-improving purposes—among them, increasing collagen to plump up wrinkles and fading age spots. I’ve got tons of the latter. I grew up in the South at a time when primping for the prom started weeks before the big night: My friends and I would slather on baby oil and hit the deck to get a head-start on a “healthy” tan to complement our dresses and our dates’ color-coordinated tuxes. (Yeah, I’m that old). Not a good idea for anyone, but for someone like me, of Scotch-Irish descent, those sunning sessions yielded serious skin damage. Besides the splotches, I have an official history of squamous cell carcinoma: If you look real close at the bridge of my nose you can see the tiny dip where it was removed. View Full Post

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