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Friday, November 14, 2025

Ultraprocessed foods may significantly increase risk for lung cancer

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The major environmental risk factors for lung cancer tend to be substances that are directly inhaled into the lungs. Of course tobacco smoke...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Pat Riley’s 17s conditioning test

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The “Riley Test” is one of basketball’s most famous gut-check: five rounds of “17s” -- 17 sideline-to-sideline sprints per round -- with sho...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

How to prevent 3 in 5 liver cancer cases worldwide

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Liver cancer affects one of the body's largest and most vital organs. Primary liver cancer, which originates in the liver itself, is cat...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

A high quality diet can reduce chronic conditions in older adults

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Multimorbidity ( MM ) is defined as two or more chronic conditions, and the risk of MM rises sharply with age. Typical chronic conditions in...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

7,000 steps per day is a worthy goal

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In a previous post I described the somewhat arbitrary origin of the 10,000 steps per day recommendation: “It basically started around the T...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

How to increase colorectal cancer screening for those aged 45 to 49

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The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) has shown contrasting trends between younger and older adults. While CRC rates have been declining ...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

The amazing chicken breast

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A recent New York Times article touted the health benefits of eating chicken breast. I have largely replaced red meat with chicken, turkey,...