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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.

If you've been buying omega-3 fish oil pills to help prevent mental decline as you age, save your money.
Which is your favorite sweetener packet --white, pink, blue or yellow?
ABC News' Robin Roberts, 51, who announced she will undergo a bone marrow transplant this fall to fight a rare blood disorder, was fortunate that her older sister, Sally Ann, was the perfect match to donate marrow -- the only treatment for Roberts' myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a type of…
How many hours of sleep do you normally get each night? If it's less than six, you could be significantly boosting your stroke risk.
Warm weather, as well as opportunities to stay active and maintain a healthy lifestyle, are the reason southern and southwestern cities dominated on Forbes' new list of best places to retire in 2012.
Is your waist measurement more than half your height? Then you could be at increased risk for diabetes and heart disease.
She's calling it just "a bump in the road," but the news this week that singer Sheryl Crow has a benign brain tumor shocked her fans.
Talking with a therapist on the phone may be more helpful for depressed patients than coming to a therapist's office.
When it comes to germy office-mates, some of us are spreading around more bacteria than others.
Stay away from gluten. Eggs will raise your cholesterol. Fruits have too much sugar.
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