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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.

We know that organic produce is healthier for us because it contains fewer pesticides, but did you know that organic milk has significantly more heart-healthy fatty acids than milk from conventional dairy farms?
Try saying this 10 times fast: "pad kid poured curd pulled cod."
Thinking about getting on a ladder to string lights outside or decorate the very top of your tall Christmas tree? Maybe you should reconsider - or at least get some help.
We know french fries are bad for our waistlines, but now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants us to know that there's another reason to cut back on them - a chemical called acrylamide, which forms in foods cooked at a very high temperature and which has been linked to cancer in animal…
A New York Times editorial called it possibly "the most dramatic advance in treating depression in decades."
Eating a handful of nuts a day may be all it takes to help ward off serious disease and prolong a healthy life, says a major new study.
"Don't weigh yourself every day" was the advice experts used to give for those of us trying to lose weight, but a growing number of studies find that people actually lose more weight - and keep it off - if they step on the scale daily.
Some people claim it's not Thanksgiving without a mushy green bean casserole on the table, but others - myself included - say it's time to dump this 50's era corporate concoction and come up with something healthier and better-tasting.
If a new British study is right, slow and steady wins the (health) race for older men trying to lower their risk of stroke.
Pity our poor necks, constantly bending forward for long periods as we read, text and play games on our smartphones, e-readers, iPads and other tech toys.
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