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[8 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Salt takes a licking

Keeping an eye on how much salt you consume? You may be looking in all the wrong places, a new report suggests.

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[8 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Number of farmers markets in the US

Number of farmers markets in the US.

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[8 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Number of years younger than their real age

Number of years younger than their real age that older people typically feel.

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[8 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Number of steps you should walk every day to stay fit

Number of steps you should walk every day to stay fit.

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[8 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Number of houselods currently receiving food stamps

Number of houselods currently receiving supplemental food assistance, AKA “food stamps”.

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[8 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Percent reduction in smoking credited to smoking bans

Percent reduction in smoking credited to smoking bans.

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[8 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Number of cigarettes sold each year

Number of cigarettes sold each year.

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[7 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]

“I have enjoyed great health at a great age because every day since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well,” a bishop of Seville once said. “Then I have consumed two bottles.” That may be more than anyone would recommend these days. But over the past two decades, the evidence that wine protects the heart has grown indisputable. Now a research team from Europe uncorks a surprising new explanation.

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[6 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]

New findings pose an unsettling question that women and their doctors may face when mammograms detect breast cancer. Is the tumor a real threat, or a cancer that might go away on its own?

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[5 Dec 2008 | Add Your Comment | ]
Younger than chronological age

Percent of people 65 to 84 who say they feel younger than their chronological age