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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.

It seems as if the annual health to-do list for women over 50 is getting shorter and shorter.
If you're into genealogy and tracing your ancestral roots, new - and cheaper - DNA tests can help you expand the family tree.
How long are you going to live? Here's one way to predict: How easily can you get up from sitting on the floor?
If you're a woman with 100 or more candles on your birthday cake, the 2010 Census says you're probably white and living in the South.
Experts have told us for years that coated aspirin is easier on the stomach, but few have questioned whether that coating might, in fact, reduce aspirin's heart benefits.
Taking calcium pills combined with low-dose vitamin D did not protect older women from dementia, a large new study found, but the researchers think vitamin D alone may offer some help.
No wonder everyone loves Thanksgiving - there are no gifts involved.
Well, here's another reason to buy e-books - evidently libraries are struggling to deal with the problem of bedbugs hiding out in their books and then being spread to patrons' homes, especially when they read in bed at night.
There's a new study that suggests that if your mind frequently wanders or gets distracted - hey, are you paying attention? - it means your cells are aging too quickly.
Does eating extra fruits and vegetables really help you lose weight? Does adding vegetables to the dinner plate make you seem like a better, more caring cook?
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