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Today’s article discusses how exercising may lead to a sharper brain later in life. “A new study reveals why exercising when you’re young can keep your brain sharp when you’re old. According to the researchers at the University of Montreal, an active body could push pause on the process of age-related blood vessel hardening and in turn preserve brainpower.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Eating healthy can be quite the challenge and can be especially hard around vacations, holidays or even bad days. But today’s article discusses how if you are going to eat an unhealthy meal, just make sure the next meal is a good one. Here’s what they said, “We all tend to indulge our food cravings once in a while, which means added pounds and broken diets — especially on holidays. Try alternating healthy and unhealthy meals to avoid going on a binge.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Looking to burn fat? Here’s a list of ten fat-burning foods that you may want to check out! Here’s one of them, “remember the grapefruit diet of the 1980s? Well, it wasn’t as faddy as you might think. A study, published in Nutrition & Metabolism showed that a pre-meal snack of grapefruit or grapefruit juice really can boost weight loss. Researchers at Vanderbilt University found that obese adults who consumed half a grapefruit or a glass of 100 per cent grapefruit juice before their three main reduced calorie meals, lost an average 7.1 percent of their body weight – or 15 pounds per person – in 14 weeks.” To check out all of the foods, CLICK HERE.

Today’s article discusses Walmart’s desire to “go greener” on their food products. Here’s a quote from the article, “Walmart’s effort to enhance sustainability has four legs: reducing the overall cost of food, including its environmental footprint; increasing access to more nutritious food; making it easier for its customers to eat healthier foods; and improving food safety, with greater transparency about where food comes from and how it is produced.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

You might have heard of the term clean eating. But what does it mean? How do you do it? What can eating clean do for me? Today’s article gives you ten ways to eat clean. Here’s one, “Cut Down on Saturated Fat: You don’t have to cut out fats when you’re eating clean; instead just focus on healthy fats. It’s as simple as swapping out saturated fats (like those in butter, cheese and meat) in favor of healthy fats like olive oil, canola oil and the kind found in nuts and fatty fish.” To read all of them, CLICK HERE.

Today we’re bringing you an article that features a Q&A session about flu shots. Here’s a quote from the article about whether you should get your flue shot each year, “each year the vaccines are made to keep up with these changes to give us better immunity against the coming season. Also, the immunity we build from these vaccines goes away over time and does not protect us well for more than one season. Getting your flu shot each season offers the best protection for you and your community.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Ebola is all over the news with more cases of it being found in the United States more and more. But what do you know about Ebola? Do you know how you get infected? Today’s article breaks down all you need to know about the disease and how to keep yourself healthy. Here’s a quote, “Ebola is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids — such as blood and urine — from an infected person. This can happen via direct contact or through contaminated equipment, needles or medical equipment.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Trying to eat healthy can be quite the struggle and today’s article highlights seven foods you may want to skip next time you go to the grocery store. Here’s what Jackie London, a dietician based in New York City had to say about dairy, “Lots of people assume that if they love it, it should be off-limits – which is why dairy items like cheese and milk don’t usually make the cut in many “healthy” diets. However, they can be a great source of calcium and potassium. “You’re only going to get that 8 grams of protein from animal milk, so you’re losing that if you switch to soy, almond or coconut,” London said. “And the reason for putting potassium on the new food labels is because Americans aren’t getting enough. Dairy is a good source of that.”” To check out all of them, CLICK HERE.

Are you single but hate it? Don’t! Today’s article gives us seven ways being single may have health benefits. Here’s one, “a 2013 study in the journal Health Psychology shows that happily married couples tend to gain weight in the four years after getting hitched. Without the pressure to attract a new mate, the authors say, newlyweds can get complacent about their appearance. A recent Australian study in the journal Body Image showed that women who feel pressured to slim down before their wedding gained more weight within the following 6 months.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

It was announced earlier in the week that Ebola has made its way to the United States. Today’s article discusses the virus and what is being down to limit our exposure to it. Here’s what they had to say, “news of the first homegrown Ebola case on U.S. soil comes exactly two weeks after President Obama unveiled a large-scale military effort to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Pentagon announced Tuesday that about 150 personnel from the Department of Defense and USAID are now on the ground in Liberia, where they will soon be joined by more than 3,000 military troops in a mission that could cost as much as $1 billion.” To read more, CLICK HERE.