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Dietary Relief From GERD
Marsha McCulloch, M.S., R.D. The burning sensation of heartburn in your chest, caused by stomach contents flowing back up into your esophagus (food pipe), can be agonizing. If you experience this more than twice a week for a few weeks, you may have GERD...
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Sophisticated Summer Dessert Features Fresh Peaches
Diane Rossen Worthington When white peaches are in season, I can’t get enough of them. I make poached peaches in wine, chilled peach soup with yogurt, peach cobblers and more. Of course, eating a perfectly ripe white peach over the sink, with all its juiciness, is the...
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How Much Exercise is Best
Exercise & Heart Health: What America Doesn’t Know by Cleveland Clinic News Service Exercise is one of the keys to preventing heart disease, the No. 1 killer of both men and women in the United States, but yet, a Cleveland Clinic survey shows only 20 percent of...
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The Acrylamide-Cancer Link
Humans have been eating acrylamide, a chemical that forms in some foods when they are exposed to high heat, for as long as we have been cooking, but it wasn’t until 2002 that its presence in foods was discovered. The Maillard reaction, a naturally occurring reaction...
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