| 12/27/2006 - Who Decides What You Eat? |
| When it comes to marketing ploys, most people believe they're not affected. They're wrong. From package design to dish size to background music, a huge variety of factors direct both what and how much people eat. |
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| 12/27/2006 - Hold the Bacon |
| A study conducted by Harvard researchers found that people who eat bacon at least five times a week face a much greater risk of developing bladder cancer - 59% more than people who don't eat bacon. |
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| 12/20/2006 - Calcium Keeps the Weight Off |
| As we get older it gets harder and harder to maintain a steady weight. But there's a cheap and easy (and very safe) way to stop weight gain in its tracks: Calcium. |
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| 12/20/2006 - An Impending Hip-Fracture Epidemic |
| Researchers from Australia and England predict that 6.3 million (and quite possibly even more) people around the world will fracture a hip in 2050. |
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| 12/20/2006 - The Power of Lutein |
| Lutein is a potent antioxidant. Now a team of Canadian researchers, in conjunction with a group of Chinese scientists, have shown just how powerful this compound is. |
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| 12/13/2006 - Put Down the Knife - Sciatica Surgery Just Doesn't Cut It |
| Nearly a quarter of a million Americans shell out $6,000 every year to surgically "fix" their sciatica, an excrutiatingly painful condition. The biggest problem here is that the surgery can't offer 100% relief from the pain. |
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| 12/13/2006 - Control PSA with Pomegranate |
| Pomegranate juice appears to put the brakes on rising PSA levels...and possibly even reverse them. A recent study looked at 46 men who all had detectable PSA levels in their blood after being treated for prostate cancer. |
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| 12/06/2006 - Death, Drugs, and Lots of Dough |
| Drug companies are in business to make money. It takes millions, even billions of dollars to create a new drug, test it, and bring it to market - and for that kind of cash outlay, the shareholders want to see a lot of cash coming back in. |
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