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(Recipe) Food to Improve Your Mood: Steamed Salmon Salad with Grapefruit-Ginger Dressing

While eating a healthy and well-balanced diet is essential, your diet can also be modified to help target physical and emotional states.

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7 Ways Acupuncture Can Improve Health

Acupuncture began as a traditional Chinese technique involving the balance and flow of energy or life through the pathways of the body. But today many Western practitioners believe that acupuncture stimulates nerves, tissue, and muscles to boost blood flow and natural painkillers.

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12 Ways to Slow Mental Decline

As Americans live longer, more of them have growing concerns about their cognitive decline as they age. And the truth is, there are no magic cures.

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How to Protect Children from Developing Allergies: A HealthCentral Explainer

Studies in the past several years have shed light on why some children develop allergies. The answer might be in bacteria.

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