Health
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PublishedOctober 27, 2019
Maine Voices: It’s time to out Big Tobacco’s targeting of the LGBTQ community
Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the nation, and LGBT Mainers are among the hardest hit.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2019
Maine Voices: One-size-fits-all menu mandate does more harm than good
Seeing the calories in each food item poses a threat to people diagnosed with, in danger of or in recovery from eating disorders.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2019
Regularly working 10 hours a day may increase stroke risk
Log long hours for 10 years and the risk appears to rise to 45 percent more than for those who work less.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2019
Who says you can’t eat red meat? Food advice questioned anew
Health experts are wrestling with how solid scientific findings should be before guidance is issued, how to address biases that might skew conclusions and whether the pleasure we get from eating should be considered.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2019
Taco Bell pulls beef from some stores over quality concerns
Affected locations are in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and elsewhere.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2019
California woman hospitalized with mercury poisoning after using face cream from Mexico
This is the first case of mercury poisoning from a skin cream in the U.S., health officials say.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2019
From feta to American slices, a ranking of cheeses by healthfulness
Cheese lovers rejoice! Research is starting to suggest dairy fats may have a neutral-to-positive effect on the heart.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2019
Cookbook review: Please give us more of the excellent writing in ‘Extra Helping’
Along with the prose, Janet Reich Elsbach's new cookbook contains recipes intended to sustain new parents, new neighbors, ill and recovering patients and the grief-stricken.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
Maine Med’s research institute awarded $1.3 million NIH grant to study obesity
The federal grant will be used to conduct of a study of a specific type of gene in hopes of developing new ways to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes
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PublishedAugust 9, 2019
Commentary: Mail-order DNA tests can be fun, but they’re not medical advice
If you're worried about your cancer risk, you need a geneticist – not a DIY kit.
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