Best and worst Super Bowl foods

By Dave ZinczenkoMen's Health Whether it’s the game, the commercials, the snacks, or some combination of all three, everyone has a reason to tune in for the Super Bowl.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Forgive your slip-ups

We've only a day to go with the 25,000 Pound Weight-Loss Challenge! And we need everybody's help to make sure that we hit our goal by Tuesday. Have you recorded your progress today? Click here and tell us how it's going.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Choose lean proteins

There are only two days to go in the 25,000 Pound Weight-Loss Challenge! And we need everybody's help to make sure that we hit our goal. Have you recorded your progress today? Click here and tell us how it's going. We can do it!

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Weight-loss Challenge: Do-it-yourself smoothie for a quick meal

  There are only a few days left in the 25,000 Pound Weight-Loss Challenge! Have you recorded your progress today? Click here and tell us how it's going. We can do it!

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After tragic teen hockey injuries, can a rough sport become safer?

Two tragic spine injuries in Minnesota high school hockey games in the last month have sparked debate among parents, officials, and fans over how the rough sport can be made safer. On Dec.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Clean our your condiment shelf

There are only a few days left in the 25,000 Pound Weight-Loss Challenge! Have you recorded your progress today? Click here and tell us how it's going. We can do it!

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Home births rise nearly 30 percent

Jessica Wilcox thinks her in-laws still view her ideas about childbirth as kind of out there, but it’s hard to argue with success: In the last five years or so, Wilcox has given birth to two boys and two girls -- each weighing more than 10 pounds -- at her northern Vir …

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More men than women have oral cancer virus

By Rachael RettnerMyHealthNewsDaily About 7 percent of adults and teens in the United States are orally infected with the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a new study says.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Get moving during commercial breaks

There are only a few days to go to make our 25,000 Pound Weight-Loss Challenge! Have you recorded your progress today? Click here and tell us how it's going.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Spice up your meals

At this point in the challenge, it’s all about fine-tuning your diet to get every advantage possible—and spicing up your food is one way to get ahead.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Make the TV room a 'no-eating' zone

It’s incredibly easy to polish off a whole bag of chips or entire row of cookies when you’re mindlessly snacking while watching television.

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Autism a 'moving target' for some children, study finds

by Linda ThrasybuleMyHealthNewsDaily Children with autism tend to also have other disorders, such as a learning disability or depression, which affect them in different ways as they age, a new study finds.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Stock only low-fat dairy

Getting rid of full-fat dairy products and replacing them with low-fat or fat-free choices saves you major calories, not to mention a whole lot of unhealthy saturated fat. So stock your fridge with skim or 1 percent milk, nonfat yogurt, reduced-fat cheese, and light sour cr …

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5 diabetes-friendly swaps Paula Deen should try

Prevention As you have certainly heard by now, Paula Deen, 64, that Southern belle from whom we've all been taking cooking cues from for years, has revealed she has type-2 diabetes.

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Weight-loss Challenge: 5 quick-fix dinners for hectic nights

Game plan a list of super-simple, starch-free dinners you can whip up in 20 minutes or less. These will be your go-to recipes for days when you’re short on time, so you’ll avoid losing resolve and grabbing unhealthy fast food or pizza.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Choose skinnier options when eating out

For most people, eating out is a normal part of their weekend routine, and you don’t have to avoid restaurants just because you’re watching your weight.

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Doctor offers new details on teen girls' mystery illness

After a week of speculation and months of worry for the families of 12 girls affected by a mystery illness that causes severe Tourette’s-like tics and verbal outbursts, the doctor who has treated 10 of the girls from upstate New York offered new details on their condition. …

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Weight-loss Challenge: Metabolism boosts for a slimmer, sexier bod

Adding a short strength-training regimen in conjunction with your daily cardio can help you accelerate your weight loss and tone up your slimmer, sexier bod.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Try low-cal cocktails that won't blow your diet

If you like to relax with a drink on occasion, good news -- alcohol is no longer off limits. You can now enjoy up to 3 cocktails a week, provided you choose one of the slimmest options.

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Artificial testicle could treat male infertility

By Rachael RettnerMyHealthNewsDaily Researchers in California hope to become the first in the world to build an artificial testicle that produces human sperm.

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Does the G-spot really exist? Scientist can't find it

The controversy over the G-spot is about to heat up again.

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Weight-Loss Challenge: Clean trigger foods out of your house

Acknowledge your personal trigger foods -- the foods you simply cannot stop eating once you start -- and keep them out of the house (and your life) entirely, at least for the time being. By completely eliminating the foods that tempt you most (whether it’s ice cream, chips …

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Opinion: Deen's diabetes confession a sticky hypocrisy

Paula Deen came clean to TODAY’s Al Roker that she was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes three years ago.

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Toddler with blistering skin disease dies in his mother's arms

A young boy's struggle with a horrible skin disease has come to an end. Tripp Roth, age 2, of Ponchatoula, La., has lost his devastating struggle against junctional epidermolysis bullosa.

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Weight-loss Challenge: Choose a mantra for daily encouragement

Losing weight is 50 percent attitude, so keeping your spirits high is key to success. In a moment of weakness or frustration, an empowering quote can provide that extra motivational push you need to make it through the day.

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