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This simple diet flex can lower risk of heart disease

What if a simple tweak to your diet could significantly reduce your risk of heart disease without requiring you to go entirely meat-free?

Is there an optimal time of day to work out?

It’s a long-standing discussion for all who want to get into shape. When is the best time to exercise? Morning and evening workouts both have their benefits.

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Study hints healthier school lunch can reduce obesity

A 2010 federal law that boosted nutrition standards for school meals may have begun to help slow the rise in obesity among America’s children.

US kindergarten vaccination rate dropped again, data shows

A CDC study released this month found rates dropped again in the 2021-22 school year, and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up.

 
More kids sickened by edibles as legal pot grows

More than 7,000 confirmed cases of kids younger than 6 eating marijuana edibles were reported to the nation’s poison control centers from 2017 through 2021.

Huge US study starts sharing gene findings with volunteers

More than 155,000 Americans who shared their DNA for science are about to learn something in return: Do they have some particularly worrisome genes?

Pausing breast cancer treatment for pregnancy appears safe

Young women diagnosed with breast cancer often must delay pregnancy for years while they take hormone-blocking pills. A new study offers some reassuring news.

 
Meditation worked as well as medication in anxiety study

After two months, anxiety as measured on a severity scale declined by about 30 percent in both groups and continued to decrease during the next four months.

Survey suggests little progress against US teen vaping

The data seems to show more high school students vaping, with 14 percent saying they had done so recently, compared with about 11 percent last year.

 
Adults should get routine anxiety screening, panel says

It’s the first time the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended anxiety screening in primary care for adults without symptoms.