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10 Facts About Vitamin D and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Vitamin D deficiency can be a problem for people with chronic illness, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Getting enough is important for your health and maybe even your mood!

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Better Mental Functioning Through Exercise

Regular physical activity also plays a positive role in overall mental functioning. exerciseappears to help keep mental processes sharp. The landmark MacArthur Foundation Study of Successful Aging revealed that people whose mental functions remained strong were active on a nearly daily basis.

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12 Foods to Buy Organic

The 'dirty dozen' is a list of the most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables in produce departments. When thinking about buying organic food, these are the first ones to put on your shopping list.

By Wyatt Myers
Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH
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To guide people shopping for produce, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases a new list of “dirty dozen” fruits and vegetables each year. Simply put, these are the fruits and vegetables that have the most pesticide contamination based on the EWG’s analysis of more than 89,000 laboratory tests. Considering this, they are also the foods that you might want to put on your organic shopping list.
Last Updated: 10/28/2010
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18 Things Your Feet Say About Your Health

 

By Paula Spencer, Caring.com
Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Want to make a simple, ten-second check on the state of your health? Sneak a peek at your feet.

"You can detect everything from diabetes to nutritional deficiencies just by examining the feet," says Jane Andersen, DPM, president of the American Association of Women Podiatrists and a spokeswoman for the American Podiatric Medical Association.

The lowly left and right provide plenty of insightful data: Together they contain a quarter of the body's bones, and each foot also has 33 joints; 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments; and countless nerves and blood vessels that link all the way to the heart, spine, and brain.

Unresolved foot problems can have unexpected consequences. Untreated pain often leads a person to move less and gain weight, for example, or to shift balance in unnatural ways, increasing the chance of falling and breaking a bone.

So when the feet send one of these 18 warning messages, they mean business.

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The Plank

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If you’ve ever stepped into a commercial gym or attempted to “get in shape” in the discomfort of your own home, then you’ve almost certainly done a crunch. It’s a movement that’s as ingrained in our fitness culture as bench presses and biceps curls.

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