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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Sun-smart kits The Learn to Live program of the Department of Health offers sun-smart kits to county residents. The kit contains a guidebook, ideas for sun accessories and information about skin cancer detection. To order a kit, call the Learn To Live...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Mental Health, Preventative Medicine, Flu Vaccine, Behavioral Conditions
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Triple crown of nutrition tips
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog Picture of Health (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth). This week, Christine Dobmeier offers nutrition lifestyle tips.
The...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Memorial Day, Tomatoes, Nutrition, Potatoes
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Hopkins researchers aim to uncover which mobile health applications work
Those looking to lose weight, quit smoking or keep tabs on a malady have a lot of choices in the smartphone app stores. Choosing one that's beneficial is more of a problem.
Science is still trying to catch up to the market for mobile health applications,...Tags: Cell Phones, Weight Watchers International Incorporated, Research, Fox Broadcasting Company, Television Industry
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Fit doctors more likely to talk to patients about weight loss
If you're overweight and trying to lose pounds you may not get help from your doctor if he is overweight too, according to new research.
According to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, physicians with a...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Medical Research, Body Mass Index, Weight, Obesity
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Maryland health centers take more personalized approach to weight loss
Sharlene Fair had tried for years to lose weight, but nothing seemed to work until she found her answer after breathing into a tube at her local gym.
It was an irritating 10 minutes of breathing, but one that Fair said ultimately helped her drop what she...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Body Mass Index
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From Where I Sit: Weighing options of how to embrace weight loss challenges
It's a question only a wrestler could answer. "How much more do you think wet hair weighs?" I asked my son. He glanced up from his breakfast burrito, sized up my dripping locks, and quipped, "Three ounces," then took another bite. "Really?" I... -
Hopkins turns study on weight loss into program for sale
On the heels of a Johns Hopkins study that showed telephone and web-based coaching helps patients lose weight and keep it off, medical faculty and staff are now collaborating with a private health care firm to make the system widely available. Healthways...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Medical Research, Drugs and Medicines, Heart Disease, Private Health Care
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hCG diet leaves some hungry for less
When Lynn Patterson resolved to lose weight early this year, she took a hormone normally associated with pregnancy, not dieting.
The 53-year-old Catonsville nurse went on the hCG diet, named for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that is produced...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Foods and Beverages, Physical Conditions, Skype, Human Body
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Feeling fat? Blame all those potatoes
Almost anyone engaged in the battle of the bulging midsection knows that French fries are not their friends. But the real shocker in the study of long-term weight gain that came out of Harvard this week was that eating too many spuds of any kind —...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Physical Conditions, Vitamin C, Diets and Dieting, Potatoes
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Senior briefs
Weight loss An eight-week weight loss program will be held Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., starting July 13, at the O'Malley Senior Activity Center, 1275 Odenton Road, Odenton. Program is sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Department of Aging...Tags: Brooklyn Park, Odenton, Scrabble (game), Physical Conditions, Senior Health
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Alton Brown: Just here for the 'Experience'
The phone rings, at 9 o'clock on the dot. It's Alton Brown calling in, very promptly, for a pre-arranged interview.
"What are you eating," Brown asks, "I can always tell when someone answers the phone with food with in his mouth."
Alton Brown is not...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Physical Conditions, Television, James Beard, Restaurants
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Yoga with attitude
After battling obesity and other health issues for years, Arthur Boorman finally bottomed out. Literally.
Boorman, a Brooklyn resident and special education teacher at Severna Park High School, was working with a student at the youngster's home about two...Tags: DVDs, Armed Forces, Yoga, Obesity, DVDs and Movies
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