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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.

Ladies, I have some good news for you. That glass of wine we like to have with dinner at the end of the day? It may help protect us against stroke.
It's not exactly happily-ever-after for the boomers entering empty-nesterhood in their 50s and beyond.
For older patients with advanced heart failure, heart devices are not always the best answer.
More Americans than ever are getting their knees replaced.
We all like a good bargain, but some of the so-called good buys at garage sales or resale shops can be hazardous to your (and your kids' or grandkids') health and safety. In some instances, they could even be fatal.
When I was a kid, my Mom used to tell me to eat fish, it would make me smarter. "What does she know?" I'd grump to myself as I picked at my tuna salad.
Do you take a sleeping pill to get a better night's rest? If you do, a new study could keep you up at night.
Well, now we know why celebrity chef Paula Deen was recently hired to promote the daily diabetes drug she takes: That drug is getting some new competition from Bydureon, the first once-a-week treatment for Type 2 diabetes approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Lots of citrusy health news recently: Researchers say a nutrient in vitamin C-rich fruits like oranges, tangerines and grapefruit may help lower women's risk of stroke, but beware -- the Food and Drug Administration also just issued a reminder that fresh grapefruit and grapefruit juice can…
It's probably your least favorite cancer test, but a new study finds that the colonoscopy dramatically cuts the death rate from colorectal cancer.
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