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  • Less Couch Means Less Junk Food0

    According to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, experts say small lifestyle changes may have a “domino effect” in helping people lose weight, with one small change leading to another. In other words, when participants in the study were asked to change one lifestyle behavior, it was easier for them to

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  • ‘Purple Heart Homes’ For Wounded Vets0

    Two veterans build modified houses for war heroes with disabilities, saying "it's up to the community to take ownership of the people who go to fight and die for us." ABC News, 5/28/2012

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  • ID Thieves Loot Tax Checks, Filing Early and Often0

    Identity theft tax fraud has become a huge problem. The Treasury inspector general for tax administration told congress that in 2010, 940,000 fraudulent returns were filed by identity thieves. Those refunds would have added up to 6.5 billion dollars, and he said there could have been another 1.5 million returns they didn't catch, with potential

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  • Tinkerers Unite! How Parents Enable Kids’ Creativity0

    Parents encourage creativity in kids by helping them tinker. But kids, as they get older, spend more time with videogames, cell phones and computers and less time tinkering. Now, a growing number of like-minded parents are fighting back by encouraging unstructured, hands-on creativity. The Wall Street Journal, 5/24/2012

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  • Task force: PSA prostate cancer screening tests do more harm than good0

    A widely followed federal advisory panel recommended on Monday that healthy men should not get screened for prostate cancer (with a common blood test). The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reviewed studies showing that the test, widely used for almost 20 years, could lead to unnecessary cancer treatments. ABC News, 5/22/2012

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  • Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food0

    For more than a decade, almost all processed foods in the United States have contained ingredients from plants whose DNA was manipulated in a laboratory. Regulators and many scientists say these pose no danger. But as Americans ask more pointed questions about what they are eating, popular suspicions about the health and environmental effects of

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