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29. You don’t get enough fiber.
Skimping on fiber-rich foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes can lead to constipation and may increase your risk of colon cancer. “Women should get 25 to 35 grams daily,” says Heller. Incorporate fiber into your diet gradually to avoid gastrointestinal upset. For example, use a bean puree as a dip or sandwich spread and order brown rice instead of white.

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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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5. You’ve eaten the same breakfast and lunch for years.
Varying your diet is crucial to good health. If you don’t, you’re bound to get bored and associate healthy eating with not enjoying food. If you always make salads with iceberg and
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A $10-million grant to the Canadian Center on Substance Abuse will support a national campaign to discourage illicit-drug use among 10- to 24-year-olds, the Canwest News Service? reported Jan. 31.

Canada’s new Drug Prevention Strategy for Youth (PDF) aims to reduce youth drug-use rates, delay the onset of use, reduce drug-use frequency, and cut the use of multiple substances among those who do take drugs. It is part of the conservative government’s National Anti-Drug Strategy released in the fall and will include a two-year media campaign.

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Women who have scan-detected coronary artery calcium might have a greater risk of heart and vascular trouble than their Framingham risk scores indicate, according to a study published in the Dec. 10/24, 2007, Archives of Internal Medicine.

“Framingham is our best risk score right now, but this study challenges us to do a better job of assessing risk in women and identifying who is going to have an event,” said Susan G. Lakoski, MD, lead author and a fellow at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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A Facebook group that features photos and videos of women getting drunk has attracted more than 172,000 members and about 5,000 photos, CNN reported Dec. 10.

The group, dubbed “Thirty Reasons Girls Should Call it a Night,” shows young women passing out, vomiting, urinating in public, and drunkenly carousing. The group is part discussion forum, part bulletin board.

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Endometriosis is a condition which the tissue that lines the endometrium grows outside the uterus and other areas.

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