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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Miracle of Food | |
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| Three Theories of Food's Healing Powers | |
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| How Antioxidants in Food Can Save You from Virtually Everything | |
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| Things You Never Guessed Fat Could Do to and for You | |
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| You Could Be a Victim of Strange Food Tortures | |
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| Everybody's Cardiovascular Food Cures | |
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| What to Eat to Avoid Heart Trouble | |
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| How Arteries Get Clogged and How Food Can Stop It | |
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| Fish: The Universal Heart Medicine | |
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| What to Eat to Survive a Heart Attack | |
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| Your Second-Chance Diet After Heart Surgery | |
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| Ten Ways Fish Oil Fights Heart Disease | |
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| Garlic Turns Back the Clock on Clogged Arteries | |
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| Discover the Nutty Heart Drugs | |
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| The Italian Experiment | |
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| Use Vegetable Power to Block Heart Attacks | |
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| Try the Japanese Heart-Saving Diet | |
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| Why Mediterranean Peoples Have Better Hearts | |
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| Eat Olive Oil: The Heart-Safe Fat | |
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| More Heart Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet | |
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| Sure Way to Poison Arteries | |
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| A Tot a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | |
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| Stout-hearted Frenchmen--Is It the Wine? | |
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| Does Coffee Promote Heart Disease? | |
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| What to Eat If You Have Chest Pain (Angina) | |
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| Alcohol Promotes Angina | |
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| Irregular Heartbeats: Is Coffee a Cause? | |
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| Holiday Heart Syndrome | |
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| Diet Advice to Keep the Cardiologist Away | |
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| The Ultimate Anti-Cholesterol Diet | |
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| How You Can Use Food to Control Cholesterol | |
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| Magic Beans | |
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| Oat Power | |
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| Oat Bran Mysteries: What You Need to Know | |
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| A Garlic Clove a Day | |
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| Half an Onion a Day | |
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| High on Salmon | |
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| Olive Oil Does It All | |
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| Raves for Almonds and Walnuts | |
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| Avocados, Yes! | |
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| Cure Your Cholesterol with Strawberries | |
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| Take Two Apples and-- | |
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| Carrots vs. Cholesterol | |
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| Super Sources of Cholesterol-Fighting Fiber | |
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| Grapefruit Remedy | |
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| Foods That Can Detoxify Bad Cholesterol | |
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| What to Eat to Lower Triglycerides | |
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| Grape Lore Vindicated | |
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| A Nip, If You Drink, Improves Cholesterol | |
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| Shellfish Surprise | |
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| Foods That Can Raise Good HDL Cholesterol | |
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| Filter Out Coffee Threat | |
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| New Danger in Decaf? | |
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| Chocolate, Not Guilty | |
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| Eggs and Cholesterol--The Real Story | |
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| The Most Dangerous Fat | |
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| Jack Sprat's Salvation | |
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| Fish Oil vs. a Strange Type of Cholesterol | |
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| A Peril of Super-Low Fat | |
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| Can Cholesterol Ever Be Too Low? | |
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| Straight Talk About Diet Cures for Cholesterol | |
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| Ten Foods that Fight Blood Clots | |
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| Blood Clot Factors Can Save Your Life | |
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| How Food Can Control Blood Clotting | |
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| Garlic and Onions: Ancient Clot Fighters | |
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| Onions: A Potent Fat Blocker | |
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| Dr. Jain's Blood-Thinning Garlic Tips | |
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| How About a Little Fish Pate? | |
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| Fish Oil's Remarkable "Blood Thinning" Secret | |
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| Red Wine's Wondrous Anticoagulant | |
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| Why Grapes Make Anticlotting Medicine--and Where You Can Get It | |
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| Drink Tea for Healthy Arteries | |
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| Vegetables Are Clot Busters | |
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| The Hot Chili Pepper Effect | |
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| Spicy Clot Busters | |
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| Black Mushrooms: A Sure Blood Thinner | |
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| Olive Oil Fights Clots | |
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| High Fat--Blood Clot Villain | |
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| Try a Clot-Busting Breakfast | |
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| Diet Advice to Combat Blood Clots | |
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| Diet Remedies for High Blood Pressure | |
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| Try Celery, an Ancient Medicine | |
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| Garlic's Legendary Powers | |
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| Oh, for a Tin of Mackerel | |
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| More Fruits and Vegetables | |
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| Vitamin C Up, Blood Pressure Down | |
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| Potassium Lowers Pressure | |
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| Go for Calcium-Rich Foods | |
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| Try Olive Oil | |
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| To Salt or Not to Salt? | |
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| Sodium Surprise | |
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| Watch the Alcohol | |
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| Few Worries About Coffee | |
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| Diet Prescription for High Blood Pressure | |
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| Nature's Strong Medicines Against Strokes | |
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| Nature's Brain Protectors | |
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| Stroke Survival Medicine: An Extra Carrot a Day | |
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| The Remarkable California Experiment | |
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| Fatty Fish--The Blood Fixers | |
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| What People Eat Who Don't Die of Strokes | |
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| Saved by Tea | |
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| New Salt Danger | |
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| Alcohol: Good News, Bad News | |
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| An Antistroke Diet Prescription | |
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| Diet Remedies for Digestive Troubles | |
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| Anticonstipation Foods: Folk Wisdom Updated | |
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| How Food Can Relieve Constipation and What Is It Anyway? | |
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| Get on the Bran Wagon | |
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| How Much Bran Is Enogh? | |
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| Rice Bran: A Super Superior Laxative | |
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| Go Slow and Drink Plenty of Liquids | |
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| When the Bran Cure Is Worse Than the Problem | |
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| Dr. Burkitt's Best Bets to Fight Constipation--in Order | |
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| A Cup of Coffee--A Fast-Acting Laxative | |
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| Yes, Prunes--But Why Is a Mystery | |
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| Laxative Jam Recipe | |
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| Ancient Mixup: Rhubarb--The Unreal Thing | |
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| Foods to Watch Out For | |
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| Diet Advice for Regularity | |
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| Diarrhea and Diet: Modern Myths, Ancient Truths | |
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| Cautions About Infant Diarrhea | |
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| Let the Bowel Rest? Wrong! | |
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| Drink the Right Stuff--It's Not Clear Liquids | |
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| A Case of Diarrhea and Diet Pop | |
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| Old Remedies Vindicated | |
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| A Diet to Cut Diarrhea Short | |
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| Dr. Greenough's Cereal Soup | |
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| Spicy Diarrhea Fighter | |
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| Can Eating Pepper Promote Diarrhea? | |
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| In Sweden, It's Blueberry Soup | |
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| Yogurt: The "Safe" Food | |
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| Traveler's Diarrhea: A Special Event | |
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| Incident in Portugal: Saved by Carbonated Water | |
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| Milk Gone Sour | |
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| Quick Tips for Kids with Diarrhea | |
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| What to Do If You Suspect Milk Diarrhea | |
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| No Yogurt for Infants | |
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| New Salt Danger | |
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| Alcohol: Good News, Bad News | |
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| An Antistroke Diet Prescription | |
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| Diet Remedies for Digestive Troubles | |
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| Anticonstipation Foods: Folk Wisdom Updated | |
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| How Food Can Relieve Constipation and What Is It Anyway? | |
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| Get on the Bran Wagon | |
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| How Much Bran Is Enough? | |
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| Rice Bran: A Super Superior Laxative | |
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| Go Slow and Drink Plenty of Liquids | |
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| When the Bran Cure Is Worse Than the Problem | |
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| Dr. Burkitt's Best Bets to Fight Constipation--in Order | |
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| A Cup of Coffee--A Fast-Acting Laxative | |
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| Yes, Prunes--But Why Is a Mystery | |
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| Laxative Jam Recipe | |
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| Ancient Mixup: Rhubarb--The Unreal Thing | |
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| Foods to Watch Out For | |
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| Diet Advice for Regularity | |
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| Diarrhea and Diet: Modern Myths, Ancient Truths | |
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| Cautions About Infant Diarrhea | |
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| Let the Bowel Rest? Wrong! | |
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| Drink the Right Stuff--It's Not Clear Liquids | |
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| A Case of Diarrhea and Diet Pop | |
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| Old Remedies Vindicated | |
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| A Diet to Cut Diarrhea Short | |
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| Dr. Greenough's Cereal Soup | |
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| Spicy Diarrhea Fighter | |
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| Can Eating Pepper Promote Diarrhea? | |
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| In Sweden, It's Blueberry Soup | |
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| Yogurt: The "Safe" Food | |
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| Traveler's Diarrhea: A Special Event | |
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| Incident in Portugal: Saved by Carbonated Water | |
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| Milk Gone Sour | |
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| Quick Tips for Kids with Diarrhea | |
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| What to Do If You Suspect Milk Diarrhea | |
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| No Yogurt for Infants | |
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| Toddler's Downfall: Fruit Juices | |
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| Common Culprits in Diarrhea | |
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| One Too Many Dietetic Candies | |
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| Coffee Troubles | |
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| Watch Out for Muffin Overload | |
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| Diet Prescription to Curb Diarrhea | |
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| What to Eat for Upset Stomach | |
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| The Banana Cure | |
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| Stomachaches and Pains: Likely Food Culprits | |
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| Acid Stomach: What to Eat and Avoid | |
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| Ginger: A Super Drug for Nausea | |
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| Dr. Koch's Antinausea Food Remedies | |
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| Foolproof Remedies for Gas | |
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| How Food Causes Gas | |
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| Great Gas from the Cow | |
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| Infamous Gas Producers | |
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| How to Find Your Gas Nemesis | |
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| Your Gas Timetable | |
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| Block Gas with Ginger and Garlic | |
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| De-Gas Your Beans | |
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| Antigas Diet Prescription | |
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| The Milk Miseries: Lactose Intolerance | |
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| The Yogurt Salvation | |
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| The Intolerance Test: How to Tell if the Cow Is Unfriendly | |
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| Dr. Lee's Chocolate Treatment | |
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| If You Are Lactose Intolerant--What to Eat | |
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| Eating Your Way Out of Heartburn | |
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| How Heartburn Happens | |
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| Four Ways Food Encourages Heartburn | |
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| A Doctor's Chocolate-Chip Heartburn | |
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| Chocolate's Quadruple Threat | |
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| Fat--Big Danger | |
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| The McBiscuit Episode | |
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| Spare the Spicy Stuff | |
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| Alcohol: The Silent Culprit | |
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| Diet Prescriptions to Escape Heartburn | |
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| Colic: A Dietary Cry of Protest | |
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| Crying Till the Cows Go Home | |
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| How to Tell Colic from Ordinary Crying | |
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| Trouble in Mother's Milk | |
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| Cracking the Milk Mystery | |
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| The Colic Milk Test | |
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| A Sweet Cure for Crying | |
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| What About Strong Stuff in Mother's Milk? | |
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| Colic-Curing Diet Prescription | |
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| New Food Suspects in Spastic Colon | |
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| First, Suspect Milk | |
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| Rule Out "Dietetic" Sugars | |
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| Go Easy on Coffee | |
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| Eat More Fiber | |
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| When IBS Is a Strange Food Reaction | |
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| Top Food Villains | |
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| Check for a Wheat Connection | |
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| Why Food-Triggered Gut Reactions Happen | |
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| Diet Strategies to Defeat Spastic Colon | |
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| Bran for Diverticular Disease | |
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| A Bran-New Idea | |
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| Recipe for Recovery | |
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| New Advice on Pips and Seeds | |
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| Ulcers: Goodbye, Milk--Hello, Hot Stuff | |
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| How Food Can Affect Ulcers | |
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| The Milk Myth | |
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| Farewell to Bland Diets | |
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| Bananas Build Strong Stomachs | |
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| The Amazing Cabbage Experiments | |
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| Dr. Cheney's Antiulcer Cabbage Recipe | |
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| The Licorice Cure | |
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| Bean Bufferin? | |
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| How Japanese Mice Avoid Ulcers: They Drink Tea, of Course | |
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| Top Stomach Acid Makers | |
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| Tex Mex and Hot Spices May Help, Not Harm | |
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| Dr. Weil's Hot Pepper Tea for Ulcers | |
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| Garlic--Good for Your Stomach | |
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| Coffee Spurs Acid | |
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| The Alcohol Puzzle | |
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| Beware Beer: The Acid Factory | |
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| Some Like It Too Hot | |
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| Diet Prescription to Prevent and Heal Ulcers | |
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| Defeating Gallstones with Diet | |
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| How Gallbladder Attacks Happen--and How Food Can Prevent Them | |
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| Vegetable Antidotes | |
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| Light Drinking May Help | |
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| Too Much Sugar--Too Little Fiber | |
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| Coffee Calamity | |
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| Avoid the Breakfast Gap | |
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| Ten Pounds to Go | |
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| Quick-Weight-Loss Danger | |
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| Fat Misunderstandings | |
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| What to Eat to Prevent Gallstones | |
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| Kidney Stones: Diet, the "Drug of Choice" | |
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| How Food Makes Kidney Stones | |
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| Try the Diet Cure First | |
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| Meat for the Stone Ages | |
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| The Vegetarian Defense | |
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| The Japanese Experiment | |
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| Cut Down on Salt | |
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| Beware Spinach and Rhubarb | |
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| Stone-Makers: Foods High in Oxalates | |
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| The Calcium Conundrum | |
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| The Ancient Water Cure | |
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| Up the Fiber | |
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| No Stones for the Philadelphia Banker | |
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| Stone-Fighting Diet Advice | |
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| A Diet to Save you from Cancer | |
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| Best Foods to Block, Intercept and Stifle Cancer | |
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| The Stakes Are High | |
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| How Food Can Help Save You from Cancer | |
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| Read My Lips: More Fruits and Vegetables | |
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| Top Fruit and Vegetable Cancer Fighters | |
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| The Anticancer Truth Is in Your Blood | |
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| Best Fruit and Vegetable Bets Against Various Cancers | |
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| Garlic and Onions: Pungent Preventives | |
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| Foods That May Block the Spread of Cancer | |
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| The Attack of the Anticancer Tomatoes | |
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| Strive for Five | |
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| Go for the Green | |
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| Amazing Citrus Power | |
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| Raw or Cooked for Anticancer Power? | |
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| Soybeans: Cancer Blockers | |
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| Tea: The Anticancer Drink | |
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| Anticancer Cooking: Off the Grill and into the Microwave | |
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| Cancer Fighter in Milk? | |
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| Beware: Some Fats Feed Cancer | |
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| Go Easy on Alcohol | |
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| New Frontier: Foods That May Slow Cancer Spread | |
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| Garlic Kills Cancer Cells | |
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| Carotene, A New Cancer Drug | |
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| Fish Oil Promises | |
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| Wheat and Cabbage Chemotherapy | |
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| Other Possibilities | |
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| What People Eat Who Don't Get Cancer | |
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| Diet Antidotes to Breast Cancer | |
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| Foods Uniquely Influence Breast Cancer | |
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| The Cabbage Factor | |
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| Wheat Bran Manipulator | |
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| Beans vs. Breast Cancer | |
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| Soybeans: Japan's Wonder Food? | |
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| The Soybean-Estrogen Paradox | |
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| Eat Food from the Sea | |
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| Vitamin D Protection | |
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| Vitamin C Foods: You Can't Eat Too Many | |
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| To Drink or Not to Drink? | |
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| Binge-Drinking: A Special Threat | |
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| High-Fat Danger? | |
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| Beware Fat If You Have Breast Cancer | |
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| Diet Prescription Against Breast Cancer | |
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| Colon Cancer: Fighting Off Fate and Bad Genes with Diet | |
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| How Food Can Block Colon Cancer | |
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| It's Never Too Late | |
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| The Miracle Food to Save 50,000 Americans | |
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| The Amazing Power in All-Bran | |
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| Reach for the Cereal After Cancer Surgery | |
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| Only Wheat Bran Works | |
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| Eat Seafood, Stop Polyps | |
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| Bring on the Vegetables | |
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| Cabbage vs. Colon Cancer | |
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| The Calcium Connection | |
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| A Cup of Milk, a Bowl of Cereal and | |
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| Anticancer Vitamin in Milk | |
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| Acidophilus Milk--Thrice a Cancer Fighter | |
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| How About Marmalade? | |
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| Animal Fat--Big Danger | |
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| How Fat Promotes Cancer | |
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| The Less Red Meat, the Better | |
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| Food-Aspirin Antidotes? | |
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| The Drinker's Colon Cancer | |
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| Diet Advice to Curtail Colon Cancer | |
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| Beer Danger in Rectal Cancer | |
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| Is Lung Cancer a "Vegetable Deficiency"? | |
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| Attention Smokers and Ex-Smokers: Here's What to Eat | |
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| All Hail the Carrot Chemical | |
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| A Time Bomb in Your Bloodstream | |
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| A Bite of Carotene a Day | |
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| Greens' and Beans' Secret Weapon | |
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| Eat Tomatoes and Cabbage, Too | |
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| Tea-Drinking Animals Don't Get Lung Cancer | |
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| What Can Smokers Expect from Food Antidotes? | |
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| Vegetables Against Passive Smoking | |
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| What to Eat If You Have Lung Cancer | |
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| Vegetable Craze: The Best Diet Prescription | |
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| Pancreatic Cancer: An Orange a Day? | |
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| Fruit Power | |
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| Eat Tomatoes for Sure | |
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| The Bean Defense | |
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| The Case Against Meat and Fat | |
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| What About Coffee, Tea and Alcohol? | |
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| Stomach Cancer: The Salad Solution | |
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| Anticancer Salad Bar | |
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| A Couple of Tablespoons of Cabbage a Day | |
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| Scallion Surprise | |
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| Tea-Totaling Japanese | |
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| Make Yours Miso Soup | |
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| Sodium, Meat and Fat--Triple Threat | |
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| Other Cancers: Diet Antidotes | |
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| An Anti-Skin Cancer Diet | |
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| Veggies vs. Endometrial Cancer | |
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| Broccoli and Tomatoes Block Cervical Cancer | |
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| Carrots for the Larynx | |
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| Prostate Cancer and Dairy Danger | |
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| Foods that Make You Feel Better and Smarter | |
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| Stay-Awake, High-Alert, Brainpower Foods | |
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| Dr. Wurtman's Brain-Food Theory | |
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| First Alert! Eat Protein | |
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| Coffee: An Extraordinary Energizer | |
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| High Alert on a Cup or Two | |
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| No After-Meal Slump | |
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| The Caffeine Fix | |
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| Coffee Sedates Some? Harvard Says Yes | |
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| More Brainpower from Fruits and Nuts | |
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| Potion for Aging Brains | |
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| How Could You Forget?--Seafood Is Brain Food | |
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| Lard and Fading Maze Memories | |
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| Curb Your Drinking--Save Your Brain | |
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| Eating Tips for Maximum Alertness and Brainpower | |
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| Higher IQ from Mother's Milk | |
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| Foods to Lift Your Mood | |
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| Food Remedy for the Winter Blues | |
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| The Mighty Caffeine Lift | |
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| One-Cup-a-Day Kick | |
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| I-Miss-My-Caffeine Depression | |
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| Spinach for Depression? | |
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| Good-Mood Seafood Mineral | |
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| A Nut a Day Keeps the Blues Away | |
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| Good-Mood Selenium "Food Pills" | |
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| Garlic--A Mood Elevator? | |
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| The Chili Pepper High | |
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| Diet Extinguishers for Anxiety and Stress | |
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| Caffeine Catastrophe | |
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| The Skeptical Colonel's Caffeinism | |
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| Caffeine Triggers Panic Attacks | |
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| The Instant No-Caffeine Anxiety Cure | |
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| Booze Is No Solution | |
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| The Sweetest Anxiety Cures | |
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| Dr. Wurtman's Fast-Acting Anti-Stress, Anti-Anxiety Recipe | |
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| Take an Onion | |
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| Antianxiety Diet Prescription | |
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| Surprising Facts About Diet and Behavior | |
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| No Sugar Hyperactivity at NIMH | |
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| Surprise! Sugar Mellows Out Delinquents | |
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| Pow! Bang!--My Cholesterol's Too Low | |
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| Straight Talk About Sugar | |
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| Headaches: Food Triggers and Cures | |
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| New Headache Theories | |
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| Major Ways Food Can Affect Headaches | |
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| How Common Is Food Headache? | |
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| Beware the Awful Amines | |
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| Red Wine Headache | |
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| Cheeses That Give the Most Pain | |
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| The Chocolate Headache | |
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| Hot-Dog Headache: The Nitrite Nemesis | |
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| Foods Most Likely to Trigger Headaches | |
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| The Aspartame Headache | |
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| MSG Headache | |
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| Caffeine: Good Guy, Bad Guy | |
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| Caffeine-Withdrawal Headache | |
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| One Man's Caffeine-Binge Headaches Cured | |
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| If You Have Morning Headaches, Check out Caffeine | |
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| How to Kick Caffeine Without the Headaches | |
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| Ice Cream Headache: Surprisingly Common | |
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| The Hangover Headache | |
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| Food Migraines in Children: The Famous Egger Study | |
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| No More "Headache Epilepsy" | |
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| Cure Migraine with Ginger | |
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| Fish Oil vs. Migraines | |
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| Odd Food Painkillers | |
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| Diet Prescription to Combat Headaches | |
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| Foods to Zap Common Infections and Breathing Problems | |
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| Foods That Boost Immunity, Ward Off Infections | |
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| How Food Can Influence Immunity | |
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| The Powerful Yogurt Effect | |
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| Even Dead, Yogurt Fights On | |
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| Hail the Ancient Shiitake Mushroom | |
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| The Garlic Secret | |
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| Vegetarians' Immune Advantage | |
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| Immune Armadas: Fruits and Vegetables | |
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| Zinc Jazzes up Aging Immune Systems | |
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| Fat Blunts Immunity | |
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| Why Wine Drinkers Are More Immune to Certain Infections | |
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| Immune-Boosting Diet Strategies | |
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| Foods for Colds, Flu, Bronchitis, Sinus Problems, Hay Fever | |
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| How Hot Foods Mimic Drugs | |
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| Why You Should Like It Hot | |
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| Chicken Soup, Always Chicken Soup | |
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| Dr. Ziment's Hot Tips for Breathing Problems | |
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| Scare Off Colds with Garlic | |
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| Drown Your Cold in Liquids | |
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| Congested or Have Sinus Problems? Shun Milk | |
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| Teas and Toddies for Sore Throats and Coughs | |
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| Dr. Duke's Laryngitis Remedy | |
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| A Super Food to Ward Off Hay Fever and Colds | |
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| Vitamin C Fights Bronchitis | |
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| Other Flu-Fighting Foods | |
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| Fighting Asthma with Onions, Peppers and Fish | |
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| Four Ways Food Can Affect Asthma | |
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| Onion Therapy | |
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| Fish Oil for Asthma | |
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| Abolish Wheezes with Fruits and Vegetables | |
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| Non-Meat Eaters Breathe Better | |
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| Try Fiery Peppers | |
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| Java--Good Medicine | |
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| Beware Delayed Food-Triggered Asthma Attacks | |
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| Asthma in the Pepsi Generation | |
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| Asthma from Cow's Milk | |
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| Diet Strategies Against Asthma | |
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| Chinese Restaurant Asthma | |
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| Food Antidotes for Bladder Infections | |
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| Cranberries and Blueberries: A Sticky New Theory | |
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| The Cranberry Acid Myth | |
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| Diet Prescription to Prevent Bladder Infections | |
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| The Fluid Cure | |
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| Beware Caffeine and Chocolate | |
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| A Starvation Diet for the Herpes Virus | |
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| The Three Worst Foods to Eat if You Are Prone to Herpes | |
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| Feast or Famine Can Control Herpes Flare-Ups | |
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| The Arginine Experiments | |
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| Herpes-Promoting Foods | |
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| "But I Eat Nuts and Don't Get Herpes" | |
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| How to Tell if Food Triggers Herpes Outbreaks | |
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| The Case of the Peanut Butter Sandwhich | |
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| Seaweed vs. Herpes | |
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| Shingles and Chocolate | |
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| Tips to Combat Cold Sores, Canker Sores, Genital Herpes, Shingles and Epstein-Barr Disease | |
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| Food Remedies for Joint and Bone Problems | |
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| Rheumatoid Arthritis: Breakthrough Diets | |
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| It's No Longer Food Folklore | |
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| "I Was Crippled by My Cheese Cravings" | |
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| How Food Can Affect Rheumatoid Arthritis | |
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| Suspect Corn: Another Crippler | |
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| Beware Cereal, Too | |
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| Go on a Fast for Quick Relief | |
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| Three Reasons to Give Up Meat if You Have Rheumatoid Arthritis | |
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| The Case for Vegetarianism | |
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| Proof That a Vegetable Cure Is Stronger Than Drugs | |
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| Twenty Foods Most Apt to Aggravate Arthritis | |
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| Is Arthritis a Milk Allergy? | |
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| The Mysterious Tomato Phobia | |
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| How Common Is Food-Inspired Arthritis? | |
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| Does a Herring a Day Keep Rheumatologists Away? | |
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| Beware Corn Oil and Cousins | |
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| The Ginger Remedy | |
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| Spices Beat Some Anti-Arthritis Drugs | |
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| Fish and Garlic vs. Osteoarthritis? | |
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| Four Food Ways to Beat Rheumatoid Arthritis | |
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| Plain Old Joint Pain and Food "Allergy" | |
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| Surprising New Anti-Osteoporosis Foods | |
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| Boron for Bones | |
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| Pineapple Protection | |
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| The Calcium Connection | |
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| Vitamin D Strengthens Bones | |
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| Salt--the Calcium Thief | |
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| Can Drinking Coffee Break Your Hip? | |
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| Diet Prescription to Prevent Osteoporosis | |
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| Bone-Breaking Booze? | |
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| The Right Diets for Reproductive Functions | |
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| Sex, Hormones, Fertility and Food | |
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| Should Rambo Eat Hamburgers or Pasta? | |
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| Fatty Foods and Estrogen | |
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| Rejuvenating Aged Sperm | |
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| A Youth Elixir for Old and Tired Sperm | |
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| A Sperm-Alert Diet | |
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| An Orange a Day Keeps Defective Sperm Away | |
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| Food Antidote for Serious Birth Defects | |
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| Anti-Birth Defect Diet | |
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| Diet Cures for Menstrual Problems | |
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| Calcium Subdues Mood Swings | |
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| The Tea and Toast Cure for Heavy Flow | |
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| Too Little Fat to Menstruate | |
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| PMS--Are Sweets a Cause or a Cure? | |
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| New Carbo Diet for PMS | |
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| Another Theory: Blame Caffeine | |
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| Can Foods Replace Estrogen After Menopause? | |
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| The Fruit-and-Nut Chemical Boosts Estrogen | |
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| Beer and Bourbon Boost Estrogen | |
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| Estrogen in American Yams? A Major Myth | |
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| Hot Flash Triggers: Hot Drinks and Alcohol | |
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| Diabetes and Other Food Connections | |
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| Diabetes: Food Antidotes and Remedies | |
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| What Diabetes Is and How Food Can Affect It | |
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| Diet Can Be the Kicker | |
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| Milk: A Cause of Juvenile Diabetes? | |
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| Avoiding Diabetes' Sneak Attack | |
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| Fish Forestalls Diabetes | |
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| Fat--No Friend of Insulin | |
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| The Allium Medicine | |
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| Broccoli--The Blood Sugar Wonder | |
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| The Power of Curry Spice | |
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| The Cinnamon Drug | |
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| Bring on the Beans | |
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| Which Is Worse--Carrots or Candy? | |
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| Foods Most Likely to Boost Blood Sugar | |
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| What Diabetics Should Eat and Do Eat | |
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| Call in Antioxidant Vitamins | |
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| Antidiabetes Diet Strategies | |
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| Other Food Connections You Should Know About | |
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| Acne: The Chocolate Myth | |
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| AIDS: Intriguing Possibilities | |
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| Benign Breast Disease: The Caffeine Connection | |
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| Breast-Feeding: Give Baby a Whiff of Garlic-Milk | |
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| Cataracts: The Popeye Solution | |
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| Chronic Fatigue: Food Triggers and Cures | |
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| Crohn's Disease: Wrong Foods? | |
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| Ear Infections: Suspect Food Allergy | |
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| Glaucoma: Fish Oil Promises | |
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| Gum Disease: Fruit-Blockers | |
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| Incontinence: Caffeine Tricks | |
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| Lupus: Of Fish and Food Allergies | |
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| Macular Degeneration: Carrots Save Old Eyes | |
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| Metabolism: Calorie-Burning Foods | |
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| Multiple Sclerosis: A Fat Disorder? | |
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| Dr. Swank's Low-Fat Multiple Sclerosis Diet | |
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| Neuralgia: Possible, Diet Cures | |
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| Parasites? Bring on the Garlic | |
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| Parkinson's Disease: A Nut and Seed Deficiency? | |
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| Prostate Problems: The Pumpkin Remedy | |
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| Psoriasis: Fish for the Skin | |
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| Rectal Itching and Burning: Hot Prospects | |
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| Sleep: Sugar and Milk Connections | |
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| Smoking: Foods That Stifle the Urge | |
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| If You're Trying to Wean Yourself from Cigarettes | |
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| Vaginitis: A Cup a Day Keeps It Away | |
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| How to Use the Drugs in Foods to Stay Healthy | |
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| Antibiotics: How Foods Can Kill or Inhibit Bacteria | |
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| Anticancer Agents: How Foods May Fight Cancer | |
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| Anticoagulants: How Foods Can "Thin the Blood" | |
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| Antidepressants: How Foods Can Elevate Mood | |
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| Antidiarrheal Agents: How Foods Can Combat Diarrhea | |
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| Antihypertensives: How Foods May Lower Blood Pressure | |
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| Antioxidants: How Food Protects Cells | |
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| Anti-Inflammatory Agents: How Foods Can Relieve Inflammation | |
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| Antithrombotic Agents: How Food Can Thwart Blood Clots | |
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| Antiulcerants: How Foods Can Help Prevent or Heal Ulcers | |
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| Antiviral Agents: How Foods Can Fight Viruses | |
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| Carminatives: How Food Can Relieve Intestinal Gas | |
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| Cholesterol Modifiers: How Food Can Improve Blood Cholesterol | |
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| Diuretics: How Food Can Increase Urine Flow | |
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| Decongestants: How Food Clears the Lungs and Sinuses | |
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| Hormones: How Foods Regulate Estrogen | |
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| Immune Stimulants: How Food Can Boost Immune Functioning | |
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| Painkillers: How Foods Can Block Pain | |
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| Salicylates: How Foods May Work Like Aspirin | |
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| Surprise! There's Valium in Your Food | |
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| Sedatives and Tranquilizers: How Foods Can Quiet the Brain | |
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| Disease-Fighting Powers in Sixty Common Foods | |
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| Foods with the Most Pharmacological Vitamins, Minerals, and Oils | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |