4 Natural Ways to Maintain Brain Health

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The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts Q: I keep reading about disappointing drug trials to help prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease. What else can I do to reduce my risk and improve my brain health? A: A few decades ago, the state of our brain was believed to be beyond our control. Conventional wisdom […]

The Real Link Between Breastfeeding and Preventing Obesity

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Harvard Health Blog While we know that breastfeeding has many health benefits for mothers and babies, the studies have been a bit fuzzy when it comes to the link between breastfeeding and preventing obesity in children. Some studies show a clear link, but in others that link is less clear. A study published in the […]

Are Carbs the Enemy? 6 Myths About Carbs

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Everyone and their mom seem to have an opinion about carbohydrates. How much you should eat, when you should eat them, why you should never eat fruit after lunch — there is no shortage of advice regarding carbs and people ready to wage war on them. Does all this conflicting information leave you frozen in […]