How to be smart about Valentine's Day treats

Along with flowers and jewelry, sugar is a go-to gift for Valentine's Day. Whether you're giving candy to a sweetheart or indulging your own sweet tooth, follow these tips from registered dietitian Karen Ansel.

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Best brekkies with benefits

The way you compose your breakfast can have an important impact on the ability to control your weight.

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Working long hours? How to fit in health and nutrition

A health and nutrition survival guide for your 24/7 lifestyle.

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The flexible benefits of stretching

Whether your workout routine involves running a marathon or playing a game of basketball, a sequence of stretching exercises is often the easiest thing to cut out of it.

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Music helps harmonize motivation

Plenty of serious athletes have become synonymous with their tunes. Michael Phelps listened to Lil Wayne at the Beijing Olympics and Paula Radcliffe, the women's world-record holder in the marathon, likes...

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Trying to slim down? Here are the 25 best overall diets

U.S. News enlisted health experts to determine the top 25 diets, rating them on ease of use, safety, nutrition, and effectiveness for weight loss and against diabetes and heart disease.

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Exercise works to beat the winter blahs

One of the best methods for staying energetic and optimistic at this time of year is exercise.

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Gallery: Seven steps to diet success

Dieting is never easy. It's not a one-week, one-month or even one-year endeavor. Rather, dieting is a lifelong commitment to better health. Take a look at these seven steps to help keep you on track on...

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Train like a caveman

Ancestral exercise, which for many people includes a diet component heavy on meats and vegetables and forsaking dairy and grain, slowly has crept into the mainstream in recent years.

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Fitting fitness inside the cubicle

Whether your office is in the business district or on the dining room table, sitting immobile for hours in front of a computer screen is at odds with the fit body.

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