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Your Lifestyle and Osteoporosis

The following article is brought to you by our April sponsor, Reclast. For the past three months, we’ve covered the importance of proper nutrition and exercise when it comes to caring for your bones. This month, we want to share ...

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April Showers Bring May Flowers and an Hour Less of Sleep!

National Sleep Awareness Week is March 27-April 2, 2006. Sponsored and organized by the National Sleep Foundation, this initiative promotes public education, information and awareness by spreading this year’s theme, “Sleep: As Important as Diet and Exercise (Only Easier!)”. The ...

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The Art of Botox: "Lose Your 11"

An Announcement from Allergan, Inc. You exercise, eat right, take good care of your skin, yet your friends say you look tired all the time. Your spouse thinks you’re in a bad mood and your co-workers say you look like ...

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The Skinny on Lowfat Diets

According to the most recent findings from a key clinical trial, women need more than a low-fat diet to reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. The National Institutes of Health’s Women’s Health Initiative (WHI’s) ...

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The Enigmatic Evolution of Menopause

“Along with big brains and upright posture that every text of human evolution emphasizes, I consider menopause to be among the biological traits essential for making us distinctively human—something qualitatively different from, and more than, an ape.” -Jared Diamond, 1996 ...

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Still Searching for the Salutary Effects of Wine

Last year, I visited my friends in the great Golden State of California. I had the wonderful privilege of staying at one of those magnificent vineyards in the Calistoga region of Napa Valley. For me, it’s a place like no ...

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Madonna, The Menopause Mentor

Evidently, forty-seven year old Rosie O’Donnell gets tips from Madonna to deal with menopause. In a very candid interview on The Tyra Banks Show, Rosie recently reveals how her body is reacting to The Change and what the now 50 ...

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Valentine's Day – Not Solely for Lovers

As cupid flies around with his bow and arrow this Valentine’s Day, remember it is not only a holiday restricted to lovers. Try to remember all the other special relationships you have in your life. Call your parents, or siblings, ...

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Nutrition and Osteoporosis: Getting Down to the Basics

The following article is brought to you by our February sponsor, Reclast. Certain people are more likely to develop osteoporosis than others. Factors that increase the likelihood of developing osteoporosis and broken bones are called “risk factors.”1 To evaluate your ...

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