LIVING HEALTHY

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• How Often Should You Step Away from Your Desk?

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• Mar 30, 2015 12:53 AM EDT

• More studies prove that you increase your risk of dying just by sitting for hours. Thus, the way to reduce it is to do the opposite: stand and move.

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• Kansas farmers are funding research into gluten intolerance and wheat DNA

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• Mar 25, 2015 06:49 PM EDT

• The Kansas Wheat Commission is funding research to find out why some people cannot digest wheat and to develop new varieties of wheat

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• New tool may help predict memory and thinking problems

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• Mar 22, 2015 06:14 PM EDT

• Researchers have come up with a scoring system that may give physicians a way to determine which older people are at high risk for problems with memory and thinking

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• CDC reports on cancer incidence and survival rates

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• Mar 19, 2015 07:18 PM EDT

• More than two out of every three people who have invasive cancer will survive for 5 or more years after their diagnosis.

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• Tobacco industry makes money even when killing off their customers

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• Mar 19, 2015 07:12 PM EDT

• The equation is that 6.3 million people die each year due to smoking and the tobacco industry makes more than $44 billion, which means about $7,000 per death.

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• A high BMI in infancy may predict obesity later

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• Mar 19, 2015 07:02 PM EDT

• A baby’s BMI may be a useful tool for identifying children who are at increased risk of being obese.

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• Women: Good Sex Means Good Sleep

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• Mar 18, 2015 11:40 PM EDT

• If you want to have an awesome sex life, what you need is sleep—lots of it.

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• 49ers’ Borland Quitting Football Because of Concussion Risks

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• Mar 18, 2015 07:00 PM EDT

• Chris Borland is quitting pro football after a great rookie year and turning his back on a career worth millions because he is in good health and wants to stay that way.

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• Loneliness Can Be Deadly, Study Says

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• Mar 17, 2015 07:11 AM EDT

• A new study reveals that loneliness can lead to poor health for a person. They have shown that being a loner doesn't only affect people mentally and emotionally, but also physically. Worse, scientists say that loners die younger too.

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• Do You Have Stage Fright? Here Are Some Treatments For Social Phobia

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• Mar 14, 2015 11:33 PM EDT

• Are you suffering from stage fright? Read on.

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• Sugar Industry advised health policy makers to dial back on tooth decay studies

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• Mar 14, 2015 06:58 PM EDT

• Documents from the 1960s and 1970s have revealed that the sugar industry worked closely with the National Institutes of Health to cut back on research that showed sugar was responsible for tooth decay.

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• Male smokers may have worse osteoporosis than women smokers

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• Mar 13, 2015 05:36 AM EDT

• Men who smoke not only have a greater risk of developing osteoporosis than men who don’t smoke, they have a greater risk of it than women who smoke,