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Chances are pretty good that if you’re a typical citizen of North Las Vegas, Nevada, or Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, you’re not going to be bench-pressing 250 pounds or winning any marathons anytime...
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It’s grilling season — time to fire up the backyard barbecue, whether it’s fueled by charcoal briquets, hardwood, or propane. The term “barbecue” sometimes causes some confusion. Barbecue...
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College graduates in America are saddled with a mind-boggling $1.5 trillion in student-loan debt. Not only do these obligations haunt former students for years after they have entered the workforce,...
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A blood pressure medication widely used in Europe and Japan might have potential to slow down the progress of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study appearing in Hypertension, a journal...
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Diamonds, art, classic cars, and rare stamps and coins are all very well and good, but according to a new report by the London-based international financial consulting firm Knight Frank, smart...
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The supermarket checkout line — with its grocery-cart traffic jams and checkers who never seem to know the PLU code for jalapeños — may soon be a thing of the past. The international real estate...
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Are raw foods healthier than cooked foods? Some people believe they are — to the extent that they’ll eat nothing but. Raw foodists, as such folks are sometimes called, maintain that consuming...
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Heart disease is by far the leading cause of mortality in the United States, but it’s not the one that Americans are most interested in learning about, or the one most often reported in the press....
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According to a 2018 Gallup poll, 42% of Americans who drink alcohol prefer beer. (Wine came in second, at 34%.) Luckily for us, we not only have access to most of the best beers from around the world...
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Switching to a diet based mostly on fruits and vegetables — but still including some lean meat and low-fat dairy — could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 60%, according...
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Three key strategies could prevent almost 100 million premature deaths worldwide between now and 2040, according to a new study conducted by scientists at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public...
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A monoclonal antibody called teplizumab has been shown to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes for as long as two years. About 1.25 million Americans suffer from the disease, a form of diabetes in...
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Shoplifters stole — or attempted to steal — more than $75 million worth of merchandise in 2018, across 13,674 stores across the country representing 20 large retail companies in the department...
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Tornadoes and related severe weather events across many regions of the U.S. in May will cost insurers billions of dollars, according to the Global Catastrophe Report for May 2019, issued by Aon, a...
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