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Help to enjoy the holidays

Posted November 23, 2010

According to ABC news before the Thanksgiving holiday celebration begins, there’s a lot of stress. But experts say it doesn’t have to be that way. If you pay attention to what’s most important, experts say you can save yourself a lot of time, money, and worry. Instead of running around before Thanksgiving, Duncan Burns, a […]

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Holidays and the family can be stressful

Posted November 21, 2010

According to The Los Angeles Times coping, is something  some families are forced to  do during the holidays. Change is inevitable: Divorce, marriage, children, illness, death — all alter the dynamic of family get-togethers. The trick is to adapt and craft new traditions when the old ones vanish. “There’s a lot of emotional money in the […]

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Cher immortalized on the Hollywood walk of fame

Posted November 17, 2010

According to CBS.com turns out the singer and Oscar-winning actress will have her hand prints and foot prints cemented onto Hollywood Boulevard Thursday, less than a week before the opening of her latest film, “Burlesque,” in which she plays a club owner and star-maker with a new prodigy – played by Christina Aguilera. The El […]

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Celebrity draws attention to breast reduction

Posted November 15, 2010

According to The Orange County Register some celebrity watchers suspect that breast implants are responsible for the figure of singer Katy Perry, but she says she’s naturally so well endowed that she once wanted her breast size reduced. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she said the weight of her breasts gave her back pains […]

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Lipstick and lead…truth or urban myth?

Posted November 14, 2010

According to The Los Angeles Times: heard the one about lead in lipstick? If not, you must not have an e-mail account, because this has to be one of the most prolific urban myths perpetuated through mass messaging in the history of cyberspace. Seven years after it first originated, it finally popped up for the […]

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Women with stressful jobs have 40% higher heart disease risk

Posted November 11, 2010

According to The Los Angeles Times working women are equal to men in a way they’ll wish they weren’t. Female workers with stressful jobs were more likely than women with less job strain to suffer a heart attack or a stroke or to have clogged arteries, a big U.S. government-funded study found. Worrying about losing […]

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Is the Northeast really the best in well being?

Posted November 09, 2010

According to the Los Angeles Times Connecticut is at the top of the list of well-being in the U.S., beating out Massachusetts and New York. So says a study from the American Human Development Project. The project is part of the New York-based Social Science Research Council. Based on official government data, the list is […]

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Colon cancer not just for those over 50

Posted November 08, 2010

According to theLos Angeles Times Vanessa Smith's prominent scar just below her belly button is both a badge of honor and a symbol of her so-far successful recovery from colon cancer. The 36-year-old Aurora resident has joined 12 other cancer survivors in baring their respective surgical souvenirs in a 2011 calendar designed to raise awareness […]

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Aspirin, and aspirin like products could be a problem for pregnant women

Posted November 07, 2010

___________________________________ According to The Los Angeles Times taking mild painkilllers such as aspirin, acetaminophen and ibuprofen during pregnancy, especially during the second trimester, can cause a sharp increase in reproductive problems in male offspring, researchers from Denmark, Finland and France reported Monday. The team found that women who used two of the drugs simultaneously during […]

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