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Good News From Greece Fills New Positive Website
With all the disheartening news bombarding the Greek people over the past year, a new website has been launched to offer some relief. Good...
How Healthy Lifestyle Can Prevent Half of all Alzheimer’s Cases
Half of all Alzheimer’s disease cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes such as exercise, eating healthily and not smoking, claim researchers.
For the first...
Jamie Oliver Persuades L.A. Schools To Ban Flavored Milks
Jamie Oliver, the celebrity chef turned school lunch crusader, has been lobbying for years against flavored milks that contain more sugar per ounce than...
How Awesome is Your State?
Every state is the best at something. Wyoming has the cleanest air, California is safest for workers, and Colorado has the lowest obesity rate....
160 Studies Show Happiness Improves Health and Lengthens Life
A review of more than 160 studies has found 'clear and compelling evidence' that - all else being equal - happy people tend to...
Grandson’s Disease Spurs Family to Fund First Rural Diabetes Center to Help Thousands of Families
Often, the most inspiring advances are born out of the need to fill a void. When long time Parsons residents Jacque and Kelly Rector's...
Hold the Fries! USDA Calls to Raise Nutrition Standards in School Meals
The government is calling for dramatic changes in school meals, upgrading the nutritional standards for the first time in 15 years. The proposed rule,...
Michelle Obama Joins Disney in Healthy Living Campaign
First Lady Michelle Obama joined the Walt Disney Company in a new media campaign designed to give parents and kids more reasons to eat...
Omega Fats: Some Make You Happy, Some Make You Sick… What to Avoid
Here's a new dieting tip for producing happiness in the brain - eat more fat. It needs to be the right kind of fat,...
New Insurance Rules: Free Preventive Health Care Required for New Plans
Each year chronic conditions, such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, are responsible for 7 of 10 deaths among Americans and account for 75%...
IPhone App Scans Food For Better Health
A new iPhone app dissects packaged food ingredients to provide information on harmful additives, toxic ingredients and genetically modified foods. The iScanMyFood app was...
Receiving an Armful of Summer Books Could Alter a Child’s Future
1) Books in the home correlate powerfully with student success, and, 2) young students can lose 1 ½ years of their reading achievement over...
Motivating Club Gets Kids Running Track Before School
Since October, about a 1,000 North Carolina students have been running laps before school. The Mighty Milers is part of a New...
Chef Sets Out to Heal the Unhealthiest City in America
Jamie Oliver is not a doctor, but tomorrow he will launch a public revolution to heal the "Most Unhealthy City in America". Jamie...
Climate Change Policies Will Improve Health, Say Doctors
Senior doctors and health professionals from around the world say major health improvements would result if world leaders tackle climate change. They’ve formed the...
AmeriCorps Hiring Largest Class in 16 Years
The Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency created in 1993 to engage Americans in service, today announced grants to eight organizations...
Harvest Time in Michelle Obama’s Garden (Video)
The First Lady hosted a harvest party in the White House garden today with the students from Bancroft Elementary to celebrate their hard work....
Senators Want to Expel Junk Food Vending Machines in U.S. Schools
U.S. schools with vending machines that sell candy and soda to students could soon find the government requiring healthier options to combat childhood...
Amish Gene Mutation Makes Them Immune to Heart Disease
After a dozen studies of the Amish over 15 years, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a novel gene...
Harness the Sunshine: Vitamin D Offers Amazing Health Benefits
Everyone’s talking about vitamin D. Last week Dr. Oz declared on Oprah that most Americans need to increase their intake of...