Features Related to Health & Diet
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Healthy Frozen Dinners: 20 Picks
No time to cook? No worries. Just stroll down the frozen food aisle and choose from mouth-watering entrees such as chicken Florentine, roasted beef merlot, and pumpkin squash ravioli, which can be ready in minutes. It's no surprise frozen dinners are popular. They're fast, convenient, inexpensive, e
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10 Tips for Losing 100 Pounds
If you've got 100 pounds or more to lose, chances are you've already been on numerous diets and exercise programs, without long-term success. So, the standard advice -- eat less, exercise more, and don't give up -- just isn't enough. WebMD polled weight loss experts -- as well as men and women who h
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Three Ways to Cook Salmon
Celtic myth tells the tale of Fionn MacCumhaill, a poet's apprentice who absorbed all the wisdom of the world by eating just a drop of oil from a special salmon. Turns out Fionn was on to something: We're all wise to eat salmon -- especially that marvelous fish oil. Vibrantly colored, tenderly textu
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How I Learned to Love Mushrooms
Mushrooms. Candice Opper, a 32-year-old student at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, grew up thinking of them as slippery little stealth bombs with a funky taste and flabby texture, hidden in everything from her dad's canned spaghetti sauce to her mom's tuna noodle casserole. Even worse w
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10 Flat Belly Tips
You'd love to have a flat belly for the party tonight, but thanks to one too many sodas or that basket of tortilla chips, zipping your pants is a real struggle. Abdominal bloating not only looks bad but can also cause physical discomfort. The good news? Experts say stomach bloating is a condition yo
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10 Best Low-Carb Snacks
Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, lists her top 10 picks for low-carb snacks, many of which you can make yourself.
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The Benefits of Flaxseed
Is flaxseed the new wonder food? Preliminary studies show that flaxseed may help fight everything from heart disease and diabetes to breast cancer.
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The Grapefruit Diet
Nearly everyone's heard of the Grapefruit Diet. Now it's time to find out what it is, what you can eat, how it works, and if the experts think it's safe.
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'Why Am I Fat?'
Environmental factors -- like package size, portion size, the variety of food you're served, and the size of your plate -- can influence your eating more than you realize, experts say.
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When Your Healthy Diet Isn't So Healthy
One of the happiest days of my life was when I found out that chocolate (yes, chocolate!) was actually good for me. The rich, creamy candy I'd been surreptitiously snacking on since I was a kid was packed with heart-healthy antioxidants. I gleefully loaded up my shopping cart with bars and bags of c
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