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Mastering dessert when you have diabetes

If you are living with diabetes, it might seem like sugar and desserts should be forbidden -- after all, they are typically loaded with carbohydrates. The good news is, as long as you plan and choose sweet treats mindfully, you can have your cake and eat it too.

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Tea leaves and drinking green tea is good for you

Green and black tea come from the same plant, but green tea is less processed. Because of this, it has a relatively high concentration of something called catechins. Catechins are part of a bioactive compound known as a flavonoid, which is thought to reduce oxidative stress.

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Cope With Mild Cognitive Impairment

Mild cognitive impairment – or MCI – can best be described as a fine line between a persons normal memory or thinking and dementia, explains Dr. Scott M. McGinnis, an associate neurologist at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.

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Questions for Dementia Patients

ACROSS THE U.S. THIS year, about 500,000 people will learn they have Alzheimers disease. If that happens to you or someone you love, you would not be happy about it, even if it confirms what you have long suspected.

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So You are Getting a Pacemaker

IF YOU HAVE A HEART rhythm disorder, you may have considered getting a pacemaker – but you are wary of having a small electronic device implanted inside your chest. Is it worth it?

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