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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're prone to heartburn or acid reflux, then a big food-focused holiday like Thanksgiving can be an uncomfortable time.
What's in your bowl? If it's high-fiber breakfast cereal, it's helping you cut your risk of colon cancer.
Those sprays, plug-ins and scented candles we use to make our homes smell good are causing a growing number of breathing problems, say allergy experts.
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores bears little resemblance to the nutritious nectar that bees produce, according to testing done for Food Safety News.
Why is it that some people seem to sail through cold and flu season without a sniffle, while others can count on always catching that winter cold/flu/virus?
They may be man's (and woman's) best friends, but their health care expenses are soaring right along with ours.
So you're driving to some far-flung relative's home for the holidays and halfway there you start feeling sleepy. Do you pull over for some coffee? Pull over and take a short nap?
Americans just can't get enough of pumpkin. Everything about those gorgeous gourds -- the flavor, the canned variety, the monstrously big ones, the pet remedy -- is hot this season.
Days before Halloween, the biggest candy binge of the year, the Food and Drug Administration has a spooky warning for older adults: Don't over-indulge in black licorice, especially if you're 40 or older.
Just in time for cold and flu season comes this icky news: A new survey has found that the germiest thing you touch is the gas pump handle, followed by the handle on public mailboxes, escalator rails and ATM buttons.
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