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Carl Lowe has been writing magazine articles and books about health for thirty years. He edited the health magazine Energy Times for seven years and he has written for Prevention, Self, Time-Life Books, Newsday and The New York Times. His email is carllowe@gmail.com

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Go gluten free for better cholesterol and less chance of heart disease

Exercise is supposed to raise your HDL (good) cholesterol. However, for folks like me, running marathons, competing in triathlons and training for...
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How does being fat kill you? Let us count the ways...

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Turns out that being overweight possesses numerous ways to compromise your health. For example, anxiety about being overweight may harm your health as...
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Another reason you can't trust drug companies

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Documents uncovered in court show that from 1998 to 2005 the drug company Wyeth concocted more than two dozen “scientific” papers backing...
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Bad air day

What are the effects of air pollution? Mornings like this one fill my head with toxic thoughts about the toxins that surround us. I know that I woke...
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Michael Jackson dead of heart disease, Farrah Fawcett dies of cancer

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Today, June 25, 2009, Michel Jackson died of a heart attack and Farrah Fawcett died of cancer. These two diseases represent the two leading killers of...
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Lose wrinkles with chocolate

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. German researchers have found that chocolate helps your body produce healthier skin and fight off the effects of sun damage. When you eat...
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Stop being neurotic, you'll live longer

That friendly woman at the party who doesn’t have a worry in the world is gonna outlive you. Research into aging shows if you’re not...
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Statins stop your brain

Statin drugs, which are designed to lower cholesterol in the blood, may also restrict and reduce your ability to think, according to research at Iowa...
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Heavy traffic can give you a heart attack

Getting stuck in traffic can triple your chances of a heart attack in the next 60 minutes, according to research in Germany. And you don’t even...
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