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Heavily marketed kids' cereals are least healthy
Breakfast cereals for children are less healthy than cereals meant for adults, and those marketed the most aggressively to kids have the worst nutritional quality, according to a new analysis of 161 US brands.
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Heart disease risks hit boys in their teens
The first signs that men are at higher risk of heart disease than women appear during the adolescent years, according a new study that tracked boys and girls through their teens.
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Soccer's a winner for building bone health in girls
If you want your teenage daughter to have strong bones, steer her to soccer or other impact sports, experts suggest, and you may help her prevent low bone density later in life.
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High blood pressure and cholesterol associated with eye disease
High blood pressure and high cholesterol levels not only are bad for your heart, they may also harm your eyesight, a new report suggests.
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Physical activity lowers breast cancer risk
Premenopausal women who spend much of their leisure time in physical activities, especially during adolescence and early adulthood, are less likely to develop breast cancer than their more sedentary counterparts, according to a report.
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Heart disease starts early in life
The path to heart disease begins in childhood, and that means preventive measures must be embraced by those at risk long before adulthood, researchers report.
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Ads touting dairy for weight loss are "misleading"
Recent claims that low-fat dairy products or calcium can help people lose weight are untrue, according to a review of the published scientific literature, which shows that neither dairy products in general nor calcium intake promote weight loss.
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Social factors affect mood-exercise link for Australian women
Women who get at least 3.5 hours of leisure-time activity each week are less likely to be depressed, research from Australia shows.
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Excess alcohol drinking boosts cardiovascular disease risk
While research suggests that moderate alcohol consumption may have health benefits, heavy drinking increases blood pressure, stiffens blood vessels and causes more rigid heart muscles in men and enlarged hearts in women -- all risk factors for cardiovascu
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Prenatal fish intake benefits kids' brains
Three-year-olds whose mothers ate more fish while pregnant with them score better on several tests of cognitive function than their peers whose mothers avoided seafood, a new study shows.
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Coffee and tea don't raise breast cancer risk
Results from a decades-long study may enable women to drink coffee or tea without worry that doing so will increase their risk for breast cancer, study findings suggest.
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Beer drinking and smoking may speed pancreatic cancer onset
Heavy smoking and drinking, especially beer, may hasten the onset of pancreatic cancer, according to researchers who presented their data Tuesday at the Digestive Disease Week 2008 conference in San Diego.
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Dietary sources of boron reduces lung cancer risk in women
Higher amounts of boron in the diet are associated with lower risk of lung cancer in women, researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston report.
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