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Breast-Feeding Could Save Lives and Money, Research Finds

by Colleen Egan, Posted Apr 5th 2010 1:00PM

Breast milk could help prevent diabetes. Credit: Getty Images
If women breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, more than 900 infant deaths would be prevented and the United States would save $13 billion dollars annually, ...
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Parents, School Fight Over Gym Class For Student With Diabetes

by Tom Henderson, Posted Nov 19th 2009 5:33PM

Jack McLaughlin, 11, who has diabetes, needs gym class every morning to stay healthy, his parents say. Credit: Clem Murray, Philadelphia Inquirer / MCT
Students at Lionville Middle School in Exton, Pa. have morning gym class two out of every six ...
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Big Butts a Sign of Good Health!

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jan 8th 2009 5:00PM

Ladies, when you look at yourself in the mirror, what kind of fruit do you see? Is your body shaped more like an apple or a pear? If you tend to carry fat through your hips and thighs, you are a pear. You are also in luck! What's so lucky about being ...
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Linea negra

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted May 3rd 2008 9:41AM

Pop Sugar recently polled readers about getting linea negra, the condition many pregnant women get wherein a dark , vertical line appears on their swollen baby bellies from their pubic area up to their belly buttons (and sometimes beyond). I ...
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Lowering diabetes risk in youth

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 29th 2006 4:30PM

Hundreds of sixth graders in 42 middle schools will begin taking part in a study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The HEALTHY study will determine if changes in school food services and physical education classes, along with ...
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