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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 | |