Harvard Medical School, one of the most respected sources of nutritional advice for consumers, has recommended 11 foods including nuts and fatty fish that make easy work of lowering cholesterol.
The newly published list contains quite different foods that are all capable of lowering cholesterol but do so in different ways.
 
Some deliver soluble fiber, which […]

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By Kim Kirmmse Toth
 

Empty Nest Syndrome is a feeling of great loss or sadness when a child leaves home to go to college or just to get out on their own.
If you are the child’s mother or mother figure, you may experience a true sense of loss, loneliness or even worthlessness. […]

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By Joel Block, Ph.D.
 
 
JB: So, what’s up?
 
AP (Aging Penis): Is that your attempt at humor? Not funny! The future has me worried. Kinda like the housing market. The forecast is soft.
 
JB: Sorry. I should have known that it’s hard, uh, difficult looking into an uncertain future. But, you’ve compared your concern to the housing market. […]

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By Elaine Williams
 
Recently I was asked to describe the best years of my life. Being a widow of 4 years and mother, there are many different times I considered to be the best years of my life. When I was younger, I remember summers going on seemingly forever. What wonderful times, playing tag […]

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By Elaine Williams

I became a widow at forty-seven years of age. I’d always thought my husband and I would be together forever, or at least a lot longer than the twenty years we had.
 
In that time frame we had three boys, who at the time of his passing were eleven, eighteen […]

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A study conducted by Clarity(R) http:/www.clarityproducts.com) and The EAR Foundation last year confirmed not only the prevalence of hearing loss among Baby Boomers, but also its negative impact on performance and productivity on the job, loss of income and overall quality of life. A similar study released May 16, 2007 by the Better Hearing Institute […]

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By Kim Kirmmse Toth
Empty Nest Syndrome is a feeling of great loss or sadness when a child leaves home to go to college or just to get out on their own.
If you are the child’s mother or mother figure, you may experience a true sense of loss, loneliness or even worthlessness. You may feel your […]

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The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the leading national organization of board-certified plastic surgeons who specialize in cosmetic surgery, offers its predictions for cosmetic surgery in 2009. Predictions are based on interviews with leading plastic surgeons around the country.
1. Aesthetic Medicine has seen a dramatic increase in the diversity of the patients treated […]

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By Roy Klein
Ever read Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World? Written in 1932, it’s about a chemically engineered utopian society where citizens take a mood-enhancing drug called Soma (i.e., a “happy pill”) so they’ll be content all the time. One of the author’s points was that perpetual bliss is not a good thing. We […]

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By Greg Tamblyn
Dining in the Dark: Scary Fun
We are invited to a swank hotel lobby, given beverages, finger food, and aprons. An excellent musician plays piano in the background. Lots of upscale people are milling around, waiting, like us. Finally, a chef from California instructs us to line up according to table numbers, and to […]

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