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Quiz Gives Your Kitchen a Cleanliness Grade By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Is Your Kitchen as Clean as a Restaurants?

Sept. 2, 2010 — Just how clean is your kitchen? An online quiz rates your hygiene practices with a letter grade — and gives you the information you need to keep your food safe from bacteria.

That’s according to a CDC report in the Sept. 3 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality

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Walk the dog, join a health club, get into running. Whatever you do, you’ve got to move your body as much as possible if you want to lose weight. By Jeanie Lerche Davis
WebMD Feature Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

There’s no getting around it: To lose weight and keep it off, you need to exercise. But some days that hardly seems possible. Our days are overbooked already! Yet experts agree – exercise must become part

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Quiz Gives Your Kitchen a Cleanliness Grade By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Is Your Kitchen as Clean as a Restaurants?

Sept. 2, 2010 — Just how clean is your kitchen? An online quiz rates your hygiene practices with a letter grade — and gives you the information you need to keep your food safe from bacteria.

That’s according to a CDC report in the Sept. 3 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality

Read the rest of this entry »

Quiz Gives Your Kitchen a Cleanliness Grade By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Is Your Kitchen as Clean as a Restaurants?

Sept. 2, 2010 — Just how clean is your kitchen? An online quiz rates your hygiene practices with a letter grade — and gives you the information you need to keep your food safe from bacteria.

That’s according to a CDC report in the Sept. 3 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality

Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

Sept. 1, 2010 — Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.”

What is this disease? How is it treated? Based on what he’s revealed, what do we know about Douglas’s treatment and prognosis?

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Easy weight loss tips you can slip into your everyday life By Wendy C. Fries
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic-Feature Reviewed by Michael W. Smith, MD

Pain-free weight loss? Since many of us see losing weight as an endless effort to cram in workouts while doing without our favorite foods, it may seem as if there’s nothing painless about it.

Painless weight loss tip: Eat as a family and lose weightLightening the foods

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Study Shows Older People See Rise in Self-Esteem When Reading Negative News on Youth By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Bad News About Youth Boosts Elders Esteem

Sept. 1, 2010 — People over 50 get a self-esteem boost when they read negative news about young adults, a study shows.

Researchers also say young people, when given the choice, would rather read about people their own age and aren’t very interested

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Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

Sept. 1, 2010 — Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.”

What is this disease? How is it treated? Based on what he’s revealed, what do we know about Douglas’s treatment and prognosis?

Read the rest of this entry »

Walk the dog, join a health club, get into running. Whatever you do, you’ve got to move your body as much as possible if you want to lose weight. By Jeanie Lerche Davis
WebMD Feature Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

There’s no getting around it: To lose weight and keep it off, you need to exercise. But some days that hardly seems possible. Our days are overbooked already! Yet experts agree – exercise must become part

Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

Sept. 1, 2010 — Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.”

What is this disease? How is it treated? Based on what he’s revealed, what do we know about Douglas’s treatment and prognosis?

Read the rest of this entry »