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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.

Before you pack your swimsuit, check out the latest report card on U.S. beaches with the least and most pollution.
There are chemicals and additives we allow in our snacks, drinks and packaged foods that other countries consider so unhealthy, they've banned them.
One in three American adults is obese, and the American Medical Association (AMA) believes the medical community needs to do more to help fight this problem.
Two of the country's most beautiful national parks are reporting an ugly outbreak of illness.
Are you hot in bed? No, no - not that kind of hot. (Although I'm sure you are.) I mean literally hot. Like sweaty, restless and unable to sleep well.
Starting Monday, July 1, a new Medicare competitive-bidding program will mean lower costs for the more than 15 million beneficiaries who order diabetes supplies and other medical equipment, such as wheelchairs, hospital beds and walkers.
My husband knows not to talk to me before I have my first cup of coffee in the morning. Maybe not even until after the third.
It's hard enough convincing people to have a colonoscopy because of the laxative and liquids-only prep regimen you need to undergo the day before.
Having just returned from a two-week vacation to France, I wish I could tell you that I found a great solution to the problem of jet lag, especially because scientists say that older people fare worse with a big change in time zones.
Is it me, or is it getting hot out there?
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