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Real Health Care Reform

I don't know about you, but I have yet to see anything remotely resembling health care reform in any of the proposals coming out of congress these last few months. What I do see is a waste of resources and a continuation of the same old broken health care thinking that only leads to...

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Nutrition Quiz: How Do You Know?

While most people, when asked, have a hard time answering common knowledge questions (like who the vice president is, or pointing out Iraq on a world map) they surprisingly get most of the answers to this nutritional quiz right. The question you should now ask yourself is: how is it most people know the...

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Want to Live Longer? You Have to Look Further

Living longer is a goal for almost everyone. The headlines are full of healthful information about how to extend you life expectancy, the problem is that you have to look further down the road.

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The Alzheimer’s and Sugar Connection

There are plenty of good reasons why you want to kick sugar out of your life, but keeping your brain intact is the latest and maybe the most important.

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When it Comes to Weight Loss, Forget Calories

Calories are an outdated way of thinking about food and weight loss and you have to learn to look at food in different ways.

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The Problems that Come with a Long Life

I'm sorry to say this to you if you don't know it, but medicine is never going to find a cure for cancer, or multiple sclerosis, or diabetes, or heart disease or hundred of other slow-developing diseases.

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Really? How Much Water am I Supposed to Drink?

Let me first tell you that your body has its own built-in water calculator and it just doesn't have to be that complicated and that there is a wholly different way you can look at water intake that just might surprise you

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Everything is a Miracle, Everything a Blessing

Look at everything in your life and think that it is a miracle. Instead of controlling expectations as my friend Bill suggests, think about raising your amazement at everything you have and everything you see.

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Health News Digest 12/17/2008

Today marks the beginning of a new feature here at OlsonND.com, the weekly Health News Digest. I will compile and review the latest research on a variety of health news items. Health News: HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY (HRT): HRT and the risks of breast cancer were reviewed in a recent symposium. It appears that even...

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Gifts for the Health Nut in your Life

Since I have more than a passing interest in health, I tend to get this question often: what do you think are the best books to read. You might not think so at first, but I also get a related question: how do you stay motivated to eat a healthy diet? And this time...

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