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Training With Weights Could Make You Smarter

Weightlifters are depicted in cartoons as being all brawn and no brains, but this may be far from the truth. People who train with weights or do other forms of resistance training may actually be boosting their brain capacity while building muscles. Does training with weights make you smarter?  When you’re working out in the weight room, you may be stimulating your brain at the same time...Read More » 

How Healthy Is Your Bedroom?
The kitchen may be the most popular room in the house, but the bedroom is where you clock the most time. Human beings dedicate one third of their lives to sleeping. With good reason: Sleeping refreshes the body and mind, recharging you for the next day. And while you can’t control many of the factors that interfere with slumber -- noisy neighbors, early-bird toddlers, antsy dogs -- a few simple changes can transform your ordinary bedroom into a snoozing sanctuary. Emily Anderson, eco-style expert and author of Eco-Chic Home, has developed a 10-step plan to improve your bedroom health...Read More

5 Cold Remedies That Work
Nothing cures the common cold, so the next best thing is finding cold remedies that work to treat the symptoms. The jury is still out on zinc and vitamin C, but many of the home remedies your grandmother used to advocate really do help relieve cold symptoms. Here are a few to try the next time you get stuffed up:...Read More

Keeping Your Child Safe in the Sun
Fifty percent of a person’s total lifetime sun exposure occurs in childhood, so it’s important to take precautions when your child is out and about this summer. Protecting your child against the sun’… Read More »

5 Nutrients You Need Right Now
Busy days at work and with the kids, plus a packed social calendar means your life isn’t always conducive to eating healthy, vitamin-packed meals. “So many women tend to be deficie… Read More »

Boost Your Brainpower
By Michael Castleman You forgot your mother’s birthday. You can never remember where you parked in the mall parking lot. And what was the name of that movie you saw last weekend? Don’t worry, little… Read More »

Are Cell Phones Safe?
Acosta It seems you can’t go anywhere anymore without seeing -- or hearing -- someone talking on a cell phone. About two-thirds of Americans own a mobile phone -- that’s 233 million o…Read More »

20 Tips That Peel Off Pounds
Everybody, it seems, wants to drop “at least ten pounds” these days, and there are a million weight loss products on the market eager to help that happen. At least, that’s what we’d all like to believe. The truth is, most weight loss programs and products don’t work, or, if they do, the results are only temporary. We bounce from program to product and back again, but somehow, the number on the scale never stays where we want it to...Read More

Caffeine's Surprising Health Benefits
You love it. You crave it. You can’t start your day without it -- your morning cup of coffee or tea, that is. In fact, in a recent Live Right Live Well poll, 79 percent of you said… Read More »

Free innovative infertility prevention program comes to Los Angeles
Octomom ... Kate Gosselin ... the recent embryo mix-up case in Ohio ... all stories stemming from infertility treatments and making national headlines. But, much to the surprise of many, there are several types of infertility that are actually preventable - something starting to make headlines. That's why The American Fertility Association's infertility prevention education outreach program, Manicures & Martinis, continues to sweep the nation with its next stop in Beverly Hills....Read More »

Consumer Reports Poll: 43% of Americans Say They're on the Fence About Swine Flu Vaccine
According to a new Consumer Reports poll, 43 percent of American adults say they're on the fence about getting the swine flu vaccine and just 34 percent of those polled plan on getting the swine fl... Read More »

Train Your Brain to Be Positive
We are so surrounded by negativity and bad news these days that it seems to be increasingly difficult to remain positive. And yet negativity gets us nowhere. When we focus on what's gone wrong, jud... Read More »

Delayed First Visit to Dentist Can Affect Children's Lifelong Oral Health
Most American children don't see their family dentist until they are well over 2 years old, far later than is recommended by both dental and medical professionals. That's one of the key findings f... Read More »