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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.

Evidently my coffee habit is not an addiction, it's a mental health strategy. According to a newly published study, the more coffee a woman drinks, the lower her risk of depression.
For older men seeking relief from urinary problems from an enlarged prostate, taking the popular supplement saw palmetto -- even at triple the usual dose -- is no better than taking a placebo, according to a large, new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The government wants to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes over the next five years, and they propose to do it by getting people to focus on just four crucial steps:
Pharmacies and supermarkets want to make it easy for you to get your flu shot this year, so they're offering expanded clinic hours and even discounted groceries and coupons to get you to come in.
Not as tall as you used to be? Probably not.
Good news just in time for the fall harvest of apples and pears: It turns out that eating one of those fruits a day may help prevent stroke.
BITTERSWEET MELONS: Colorado's Rocky Ford cantaloupes, revered for their super-sweet flavor, are being blamed for a food poisoning outbreak that has sickened people in six states, and caused four deaths in Colorado and New Mexico.
Do men and women over 75 still need to get colonoscopies?
Cargill, the food company that recalled a record 36 million pounds of ground turkey last month because of salmonella, announced another recall of 185,000 pounds of turkey for the same problem this past weekend.
Itchy eyes, runny nose, lots of sneezing -- yup, it's bad news for those of you who suffer during allergy season.
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