LIVING HEALTHY

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• Far fewer teens say they are having sex than in previous generation

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• Jul 22, 2015 07:29 PM EDT

• From 2011 to 2013, 44% of girls and 47% of boys between the ages of 15 and 19 said they had sexual intercourse at least once, according to the survey. This is a decline of 14% among girls and 22% for boys over the past 25 years.

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• Many more girls are using the morning-after contraceptive pill now that they don’t need a prescrip…

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• Jul 22, 2015 06:56 PM EDT

• More than one in five teen girls who are sexually active say they have used the morning-after emergency contraceptive pill. In 2002, only about one in twelve teen girls who were sexually active used the morning-after pill.

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• Fathers Are Prone to Getting Fat

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• Jul 21, 2015 10:59 PM EDT

• Fatherhood may be fun, but it may also not be good for the health, according to a longitudinal study.

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• Women who develop slight loss of memory or mental acuity decline faster than men who do

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• Jul 21, 2015 07:48 PM EDT

• A new study found that women lose cognitive function faster than men once the first signs of memory loss and impairment in thinking are noticed.

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• Anti-vaccine movement still making inroads in Washington State

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• Jul 21, 2015 07:32 PM EDT

• Only about 81% of children entering kindergarten in Seattle have been vaccinated for polio. This is lower than the polio vaccination rates of many developing countries according to statistics from the World Health Organization.

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• The heat of summer can get to you, with dangerous results.

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• Jul 20, 2015 10:57 PM EDT

• Hazy, Hot, and Humid. It is not just uncomfortable. A bad heat wave can become a slow-motion weather catastrophe, killing many people, especially elderly and poor people.

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• Want two tickets to a hot music festival in Transylvania? That will be two pints of blood, please

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• Jul 20, 2015 10:14 PM EDT

• A music festival is using one of Romania’s favorite sons, Dracula, to help boost blood donations in that country. Posters feature the world’s most famous vampire with a blood donation bag.

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• Pill May Help People with Celiac Disease Eat Gluten

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• Jul 19, 2015 11:20 PM EDT

• People with diagnosed celiac disease usually have a hard time eating out of fear they get to eat food with gluten. This designed pill, however, may solve that problem.

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• Americans are not eating enough fruits and vegetables-=-still

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• Jul 19, 2015 04:16 PM EDT

• Americans are still not eating enough vegetables and fruit. Few Americans eat enough fruit and even fewer eat enough vegetables.

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• Rudeness Can Spread Like a Plague in the Workplace

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• Jul 18, 2015 08:09 PM EDT

• Do you judge your office colleagues as rude? Well, don’t be hasty. There’s a good chance you’re becoming impolite as well.

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• Asthma Patients May Need to Get on a Treadmill

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• Jul 18, 2015 08:08 PM EDT

• Are you suffering from asthma? Here’s one treatment that can cost you less and is just as effective or is a good complement to your current medication: aerobic exercise.

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• Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms And Awarenes, Key To Early Management

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• Jul 27, 2015 08:22 PM EDT

• Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms