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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.

Should you be able to get a free statin pill for your cholesterol when you order that big, fat cheeseburger and fries at Mickey D's or some other fast food joint?
Officially, July was National Ice Cream Month, but seriously -- shouldn't it at least be extended to the searing, sizzling month of August? Yeah, I thought so, too.
Exercise helps the brain, but that doesn't mean you have to work up a sweat to get those mental benefits.
Here's the thinking: If we knew how many calories were in our restaurant foods, we'd make healthier choices about what to order.
Keep buying those cranberry capsules, ladies.
Summertime is vacation time and you know what that means: The risk of finding bed bugs in your hotel room.
If you use generic prescription drugs, you'll be happy to know that you paid nearly 8 percent less for them in 2009, according to a new report from AARP's Public Policy Institute.
Of course you love a thick, juicy, all-American burger. Even First Lady Michelle Obama, anti-obesity advocate and nutrition-conscious mom, recently ordered a burger and fries at D.C.'s Shake Shack during a lunch with friends.
One reason married men have a lower risk of death from heart disease may be because their wives encourage them (ok, nag them) to go to the E.R. when they're having the symptoms of a heart attack.
Americans between the ages of 50 and 75 are at the highest risk for colon cancer, yet one out of three -- about 22 million of you -- still haven't gotten screened for this deadly disease.
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