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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.

Doctors are falling short in the primary care they offer Americans age 65 and older, says a new poll.
How about some spring cleaning of your spring cleaning supplies?
Almost a third of people who bought their own insurance last year will get refunds averaging $127 under a provision of the new health care law, according to a new analysis of state data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group.
Last year was an economic disaster for the poultry business, but this year there's a new dark knight to the rescue: Soaring sales of the previously ignored dark meat parts -- thighs and drumsticks.
It was a simple question: How much do hospitals charge to remove an appendix?
When 81-year-old billionaire investor Warren Buffett recently revealed he had been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer after a routine screening blood test, many health experts wondered why a man of his age was even being tested for prostate cancer.
How many pills do you take a day? Five? Six? More?
Accidental poisonings from medicine cause more emergency room visits for young children each year than do car accidents, and one big reason may be that grandparents often store their prescription drugs in places easy for their grandkids to reach, says a new national poll.
It can soothe a bruise, relieve aching muscles, reduce swelling, even help your roses grow. Plus, it's cheap!
Whether you dismiss it as "mommy porn," criticize it as demeaning to women, or maintain that it's just harmless sexual fantasy fiction, the wildly popular erotic trilogy 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is the result of one woman's midlife crisis.
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