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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.

WHAT'S THAT SMELL? People who bathe regularly, use deodorant, brush their teeth, yet still have bad-smelling body or breath odor may have a rare, but treatable genetic disorder.
Labels on bone-strengthening drugs, taken by millions of older women to prevent osteoporosis, should clarify how long patients can safely take the drugs.
A new Swiss study finds that the supplement chondroitin sulfate helps relieve the joint pain and stiffness in patients with osteoarthritis of the hand.
How can you tell summer is over? Pharmacies are pushing flu shots.
We are such creatures of habit that we'll mindlessly eat, even when the food is stale.
SHE HAS WHAT? Sjogren's Syndrome (pronounced Show-grins), which caused tennis star Venus Williams to withdraw from the U.S. Open this week, is an autoimmune disease that typically affects women after 40.
New research indicates that if older adults want to lower their risk of getting a stroke, one of the best things they can do is eat more high- potassium foods.
Obesity has been big news in the past week, from the silly to the serious.
FOOD FIGHT, CHEF-STYLE. Is the woman in the photo "the worst, most dangerous person to America" because of the high-fat Southern food she champions?
Yeah, yeah, we've heard all the prune jokes. Except now we call them dried plums and guess what they can do? They help....your bones!
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