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8 Unique Tips for Preventing Dry Winter Skin
With winter’s arrival comes the need to revamp your skincare routine. Bundling up with scarves and gloves, and coating your skin with day and night creams are tips that are regularly practiced. But did you know that there are other unique secrets that will help prevent dry winter skin? Read on for the winter skincare scoop.
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12 Medical Breakthroughs of the Year
All hail Canada’s most clever, most unexpected and most significant advances of the year, from mind-reading prosthetic arms to fighting malaria with dirty socks.
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How a Tattoo Could Save Your Life
Once reserved for sailors and rock stars, tattoos have become so mainstream, you may soon be seeing them in hospitals.
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10 Secrets for Healthier Grocery Shopping
Learn to avoid the common errors consumer often make when choosing their food products.
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Could Text Messages Help People Quit Smoking?
Smokers desperate to quit may want to try asking their friends and relatives to barrage them with encouraging text messages, a new study in the UK medical journal The Lancet suggests.
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25 Ways to Stop Smoking
For all the intense efforts to reduce smoking in America over the past two decades, the progress has not been stellar. Today one in four men and one in five women still smoke.
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Ways to Quit Smoking Without Weight Gain
Most people looking for ways to quit smoking worry about weight gain, and with good reason. Smokers who quit tend to pack on an average of 5 pounds after they stop smoking cigarettes. A new study, published by the journal Science, explains why this happens, paving the way for novel smoking cessation and obesity treatment options.
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46 Tips for a Healthier and More Active Family
Engaging your kids in a health-promoting lifestyle should be a priority for every loving parent. But if you want trim and healthy kids, you have to get trim and healthy yourself. Studies show that family environment is one of the strongest predictors of childhood obesity. In one study, children of sedentary parents (a.k.a. couch potatoes) were more likely to gain weight and become overweight than children of active parents.
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Fight Diabetes: 5 Moves for a Longer Life
Diabetes stats just keep spiking — a staggering 350 million people around the globe now have the disease. That means more heart attacks, more strokes, and a shorter life expectancy, even if you're otherwise healthy. Eat right; exercise more — the advice is simple but sometimes hard to follow. What do top experts suggest for closing that gap?
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