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Patient Money: Food Safety Tips for the Budget-Conscious
Safety experts have advice on ways to germ-proof your food, and still save money.

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Recipes for Health: Grilled Leeks With Romesco Sauce
Steamed and grilled leeks are paired with romesco sauce, a nut-thickened pepper purée.

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Really?: The Claim: Flying After Breast Cancer Surgery Can Cause Swelling
Lymph nodes are often removed as treatment. The concern is that changes in cabin pressure might influence the movement of fluid in the lymphatic system.

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Making Soldiers Fit to Fight, Without the Situps
The goal of a new training program is to reduce injuries and better prepare recruits for the rigors of combat.

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Personal Health: Weight Index Doesn’t Tell the Whole Truth
Body mass index may be useful for identifying obesity in large populations, but in individuals it doesn’t differentiate between fatty and lean tissue.

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Tai Chi Reported to Ease Fibromyalgia
Slow exercise and meditation as practiced in an ancient Chinese regimen may help sufferers of a mysterious and controversial disease.

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Egg Recall Expanded After Salmonella Outbreak
An Iowa company broadened a recall of its eggs to 380 million after hundreds of people got sick across the country.

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Vital Statistics: Weight-Lifting Injuries on the Rise
More and more people are lifting weights these days — and sometimes dropping them where they shouldn’t.

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Vital Signs: Nutrition: Added Sugars Appear to Affect Cholesterol
Those with diets high in sweeteners were shown in a study to have lower blood levels of good cholesterol and higher levels of harmful triglycerides.

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Moose Offer Trail of Clues on Arthritis
Research on moose suggests that arthritis in human beings may be linked in part to nutritional deficits.

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Personal Best: When Repeat Injuries Can’t Dim an Athlete’s Passion
Despite strains, fractures and tears, we keep going, switching sports or even doctors. At least one expert would say we stubborn athletes have a psychological problem.

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Q & A: A Calcium Quandary
Do vitamin C and calcium in milk cancel each other’s benefits?

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Vital Signs: Hazards: Salmonella Is Traced to Dry Pet Food
Salmonella infections in toddlers have been traced to dry pet food, the first time a strain has been linked to the food, health officials say.

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Vital Signs: Diet: Low-Fat vs. Atkins: Parallel Results
One of the longest trials to pit low-fat diets against Atkins-style diets found that participants lost the same amount of weight after two years, regardless of which diet they were on.

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Obesity Rates Keep Rising, Troubling Health Officials
Nine states, led by Mississippi at 34.4 percent, have rates reaching 30 percent or more, as opposed to only three states in 2007.

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