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- Do You Really Need to Lose Weight?
7 questions that can help you decide whether to diet.
- Katrina's Story: Making It Work
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- The Science Behind How We Taste
Taste, a sense that adds flavor to the world, is a complicated but oh-so-important part of life.
- On the Cutting Edge of Autism Treatment
WebMD provides information about early autism treatment that involves imagination and playtime with kids.
- Fake the Perfect Tan With Sunless Tanning Lotion
Self-tanners and sunless tanners are an easy, safe way to get a summer tan without exposing your skin to hours of damaging sunlight.
- Diet Shakes: Sipping to Slimness
Are diet shakes the way to lose weight fast? Get the pros and cons here.
- Questions to Ask About Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer can add years to men's lives, but it isn't a cure. Here are questions to ask your doctor to help you understand the benefits and risks.
- Centering Yourself for a Healthy Pregnancy
Frustrated by short prenatal visits that leave you with more questions than answers? You might be a candidate for the latest trend in prenatal care.
- Exercise for Healthy Skin
Exercising your body can also keep your skin healthy and vibrant. Learn how your skin benefits from regular exercise.
- Antioxidant Superstars: Vegetables and Beans
Things like vegetables and beans are rich in antioxidants and part of the recommended daily food groups. Learn which beans and vegetables are the best choices.
- Women's Health: Then and Now
The book Our Bodies, Ourselves first made its mark during the women's movement in the 1970s, but how far has women's health come since then?
- Coping With Pregnancy Food Cravings
Not all food cravings during pregnancy are bad, but they can get you into trouble with too many calories and not enough nutrients. Here's how to handle cravings.
- Hormone Treatment Fights Prostate Cancer
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer has come a long way in the past few decades.
- Summer Skin Makeover
Five skin care tips to get your skin healthy and glowing in time for Memorial Day.
- Summer Buyers' Guide: Hair Care
Shopping for summer hair care products? You may want to read this 2005 article about your options.
- Summer Buyers' Guide: Clothing & Sandals
Slip your summer feet into pretty sandals and flip-flops, and check out the range of summer clothing that provides protection from the sun. You can even add SPF in your laundry.
- Summer Buyers' Guide: Sunglasses
Sunglasses this summer are oversized, colorful, and glitzy, with plenty of style to make a big splash when you head out into the sun.
- Summer Buyers' Guide: Sunless Tanning Lotions
Achieving that bronze-kissed look without ever stepping foot on the beach has never been easier. And sunless tans will be hotter than ever this year with all sorts of streak-proof varieties, including a do-it-yourself airbrush tanning kit, readily available.
- Top 10 Tips to Help Get Your Body Beach-Worthy
Simple slim-down strategies can help you get ready for swimsuit season
- What Is Your Health Personality?
Your health personality influences the decisions you make about how you take care of yourself.
- Foods for Healthy Skin: You Are What You Eat
Eat your way to healthy, vibrant skin by getting enough super foods that nourish the skin. Experts offer tips on the foods that make skin glow.
- The Other Time of the Month
Your menstrual cycle can affect you in some surprising ways.
- Why We Cheat
Infidelity is a hot topic of conversation, but being faithful does have its merits.
- Are Horoscopes Healthy?
Psychologists talk to WebMD about the mental health implications of reading horoscopes.
- Plus-Size Panache
If frustrations over style and fit have left you vowing not to shop for clothes until you hit your goal weight, listen up: Experts say this is the season to cut loose and let your inner fashionista come out!
- Spring Break Makeover for the Mind
Ways to beat stress that will enhance -- and possibly lengthen -- your life.
- Antioxidants in Fruits
Berries and other fruits deliver super-healthy antioxidants that can help fight disease.
- A Breast Cancer Survivor's Grief: Losing Your Doctor
Doctors aren't supposed to die before their patients. When it happened to breast cancer survivor Gina Shaw, she felt scared and bereft. What she learned can help us all.
- Do-It-Yourself Dentistry
Dental problem? You don't have to be MacGyver to save a lost filling or replace a crown.
- Weighing In on Scales: Find Your True Weight
For people trying to lose weight, gain muscle, or just maintain a healthy weight, the scale can be both friend and foe, but experts say there's a right way and a wrong way to use the scale.
- Spring Diet Makeover
Four easy tips on small changes you can make in your everyday diet that can add up to big changes for a healthier, fitter you for spring!
- Packing for a Healthy Vacation
Here's how to avoid illness or injury on your next vacation in the U.S. or abroad. Prepare before you leave, and pack some health essentials in your luggage.
- What Does a Sex Therapist Do?
How would you describe the role of a sex therapist?
- Spring Fashions That Flatter
Learn how to dress 10 pounds thinner this spring without wearing black.
- Kim's Story: An Inspiration for Healthy Weight Loss
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Men's Top 5 Health Concerns
Men die at higher rates than women for all of the top 10 causes of death. Why don't men take better care of their health?
- Pregnancy Cravings: When You Gotta Have It!
What's behind pregnancy food cravings, and can they ever be harmful?
- Women's Top 5 Health Concerns
From heart disease to breast cancer to depression, WebMD gives you the inside info on why women are at high risk for these problems but may not know it.
- Sharon's Story: Eating (Healthfully) for 2
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- The Skinny on Diet Scams
Experts weigh in on the top 5 diet scams and how to avoid them.
- French Women's Diet Secret: Yogurt
Easy, portable, and tasty, yogurt may also aid in weight loss
- Sherry's Story: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Jennifer's Story: Success at Last
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Tips on Diet Foods for Summer
Try these fruits of summer for good health - and weight loss.
- Secret Summer Diet Foods
It's natural to eat lighter during the summer, and you can do so without feeling deprived. Just try these luscious seasonal foods.
- Is Your Life Running You Ragged?
You take care of your kids, your parents, your job -- but what about yourself?
- 5 Heart-Healthy Foods
Nothing is more important than taking good care of your heart. Try these five foods to give your heart some extra nutritional strength.
- Better Sex: What's Weight Got to Do with It?
Being overweight does affect your libido. But small changes can jump-start your sex drive.
- Creative Ways to Get Portion Size Under Control
Don¿t let portion distortion derail your diet this spring.
- Asleep on the Job?
Nodding off at work? Here are some tips to give you energy throughout the day.