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Michelle Obama's Let's Move Obesity Challenge Launches Today

In a news conference Tuesday at the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama introduced a national effort to combat childhood obesity called The Let’s Move Campaign. The program will focus on what families, communities, and the public and private sectors can do to help fight childhood obesity.

New Treatment for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Scientists have discovered a new treatment for people who suffer with complex regional pain syndrome, a chronic pain condition for which there are currently no effective therapies. The pain can be so severe that some patients request amputation, only to then find that the pain returns in the stump.

Denny's Free Grand Slam an Unhealthy Choice

Denny’s is expecting to serve 2 million free Grand Slam meals today as promised during its Super Bowl campaign. The free Original Grand Slams can be ordered and consumed on Tuesday from 6 AM to 2 PM, but free in this case also means unhealthy.

More Than Two Thirds Ex-Smokers Quit Cold Turkey

It has become the norm physicians to offer smokers nicotine-replacement therapy when advising them on how to quit smoking. Researchers at the School of Public Health in Sydney, Australia have found that two-thirds to three-quarters of smokers quit unaided – cold turkey.

GOP Wants To Make Health Insurance Affordable With Tax Incentives

Tax incentives, state innovations and a small increase in federal programs are the core of the Republican road map to reforming health care and making health insurance affordable for wider masses. The plan is to discuss them with president Obama when the later meets with two parties on health care.

Blueberries, Probiotics Protect Against Colitis and Cancer

If you want to protect yourself against intestinal disease such as colitis and colorectal cancer, consider adding blueberries to your diet. You can supersize that protection if you add probiotics to the picture, according to researchers from the Lund University Faculty of Engineering in Sweden.

Mediterranean diet could protect memory by preventing brain damage

Consuming a Mediterranean diet is now found to reduce the risk of brain damage and memory loss. Small areas of infarcts in the brain that occur with age less frequently found in individuals who more closely followed a Mediterranean diet in new findings from the American Academy of Neurology.

 
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