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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.

There's a debate growing among doctors over whether drugs are just as good - or better - at preventing strokes as carotid surgery or carotid stents to keep neck arteries free from plaque.
It was dueling rice reports on Wednesday.
About 40 percent of women having mammograms have dense breast tissue that not only increases their risk of breast cancer but can also obscure tumors from view in a mammogram.
If obesity is so bad for our health, why do studies show that overweight and moderately obese patients with certain chronic diseases often live longer and do better than normal-weight or thin patients with the same illnesses?
This has got to be the simplest weight loss trick ever: Read the nutrition labels.
For the millions who hoped that popping one of those amber omega-3 fish oil pills every day might protect against heart disease, a major study has disappointing news.
It's a dark jar with a silvery top that holds a skimpy 1.7 ounces of Lancí´me night cream for a hefty $98.
Marriage seems to have a sobering effect on men, but it's the opposite with women - they drink more, new research shows.
Remember when the only choice for your sleep pillow was feather or foam?
Eating high-fiber foods helps you feel fuller, which helps keep your appetite in check - a good thing when you're trying to cut calories.
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