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Candy Sagon

Candy Sagon is an award-winning food and health writer. She wrote about food and restaurants for The Washington Post, where she won a James Beard Foundation award for food feature writing, and was assistant health editor at AARP, where she wrote about nutrition and health research for the association’s publications and website. She currently writes about health and nutrition for a number of publications.

For the first time since 1998, NBC's Bob Costas won't be hosting the network's prime-time Olympics show, thanks to an eye infection most of us recognize from childhood.
Back in the day, it was called a corset or a girdle. Now it's called shapewear, with the hugely popular Spanx line and other brands helping women smooth their lumps and bumps under clothes.
For those of us with a sweet tooth - which appears to be most of the country - the newest research carries some bitter news: Americans eat way too much sugar, and it's killing us.
Another outbreak of the nasty norovirus, a highly contagious stomach bug, has sent a second Caribbean cruise ship home early this week.
In English I La buena noticia sobre la tasa de mortalidad por cáncer en los últimos 20 años es que ha bajado un 20%, de acuerdo con un nuevo informe de la American Cancer Society.
It's certainly extreme, but a recent news story points up how germy a cellphone can be.
Caramel coloring, the stuff used to give sodas their brown color, may sound harmless, but a new study shows it can contain a chemical that's been linked to cancer - and the Food and Drug Administration is checking it out.
Could a 15-minute test you take with pen and paper provide an early warning of Alzheimer's or other cognitive problems?
One in four women suffers from urinary incontinence, and it especially hits women 70 or older. One possible solution? Boogie, baby.
It's called the placebo effect - the surprising power of the brain to affect the body when we take a pill we think is medication, even though it isn't.
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