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Coffee – a cause for concern or a cure?

Coffee – a cause for concern or a cure?

With 1.6 million new cases of type two diabetes each year, how much coffee should we really be drinking?

Coffee drinkers are used to being told off. Warnings to drink cups of joe in moderation are all too frequent. The bulk of researchers do — or at least did — think that coffee lovers could seek solace by clinging to one reassuring fact: coffee helps to ward off Type 2 diabetes. More…

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Sports fan fitness

Sports fan fitness

What being a sports fan does and doesn’t do for your health

Tea-ming with stress? Put the kettle on

Tea-ming with stress? Put the kettle on

“There is no trouble so great that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea” – Bernard-Paul Heroux

In-school breakfast breakdown

In-school breakfast breakdown

Is politicians’ least favorite meal school children’s most important?

Clearing the smoke

Clearing the smoke

The case for legalizing medicinal marijuana

Test your pill knowledge

Test your pill knowledge

How much do you really know about America’s favorite method of contraception?

A Modern Plague

A Modern Plague

An encounter with MRSA, the scourge of the health care world