Weight Training for Women
Misconceptions about weight training -- often based on unfounded fears of becoming too muscular -- can keep women from pushing their fitness levels.
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Digestive Disorders Zone
With this guide to managing digestive disorders, you’ll learn about the symptoms of and treatment for various diseases and conditions, pain management and prevention of conditions like food poisoning.
Heart Health Zone
Heart disease is the biggest health risk Americans face today. If you don’t have heart disease now, you can help prevent it. If you’ve already been diagnosed with heart disease, you can keep it from getting worse. Here are the tools to get you started.
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Learn the warning signs in men and women and how to encourage prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, as well as the symptoms and treatment of many common STDs.
Health Tip of the Day
How to Cut Back on Saturated Fats
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Cook with polyunsaturated and monounsaturated oils.
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Avoid foods high in saturated fats such as beef, lamb, mutton, dark-meat poultry and poultry skin, butter and other whole-milk dairy products.
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Read food labels on processed foods, especially those on chips, cookies and crackers. These foods often are made with highly saturated tropical oils, lard or hydrogenated vegetable oils.
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Trim visible fat from meat before cooking. Remove the skin from chicken, turkey and duck before eating.
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Cook the leanest cuts of meat.
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Eat at least two meatless or low-meat meals a week.
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Snack on fruits, carrot sticks, air-popped popcorn and low-fat crackers instead of chips and other high-fat snacks.