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December 16, 2015 - Issue 3406


How Your Health Benefits from Fiber, and Suffers from Antibiotics

How Your Health Benefits from Fiber, and Suffers from Antibiotics

December 16, 2015

It significantly slashes your risk of early mortality, while also playing a role in appetite regulation and the release of satiety hormones. Quite frankly, it's one of the best things you can do to slash your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer...

Teens Spend a "Mind-Boggling" 9 Hours a Day Using Media, Report Says

Teens Media Usage

December 16, 2015

Teenagers are spending so much time using social media and watching movies that it's "reshaping childhood and adolescence." Are there risks to spending this much time in a digital world?

Unexpected Dangers of Over-the-Counter Medicine

otc aspirin

December 16, 2015

Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are regarded as safer alternatives to prescription drugs, but they can carry many of the same, and even additional, risks. Get informed before popping another OTC pill.