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- Do Food Cravings Reflect Your Feelings?
Overcome emotional eating. There are many ways to cope with the stress of the day that don't include turning to food for comfort.
- Natural Brain Boosters
Want to add some brawn to your brainpower? Several natural brain boosters are out there.
- Facing Depression During Pregnancy
An important tool in fighting depression during pregnancy, antidepressants can help an expectant mother -- without hurting her unborn baby.
- New First Aid Kit for Today's World
Today's disaster kit contains all the traditional elements of a first aid kit and expands it to include survival items that could make the difference between life and death in the case of emergency.
- Diet Woes? Hire a Food Trainer
A new breed of nutritionists called food trainers approaches weight loss and nutrition from the inside out
- Guidelines for Your Child's Bedtime
How to Make It Easier for Your Child (and You!) to Get Sound Sleep
- Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Mental health problems are frequently complicated by substance abuse, putting patients in need of special care.
- Absentminded or Alzheimer's?
Most of us are more likely to be absentminded than have Alzheimer's disease, but how can you tell the difference, and how can absentmindedness be overcome? WebMD gives you 6 tips to tackle this frustrating problem.
- Negative Ions Create Positive Vibes
There's something in the air that just may boost your mood -- get a whiff of negative ions.
- Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Mental health problems are frequently complicated by substance abuse, putting patients in need of special care.
- Helping Your Late-Talking Children
If your child seems to be a late talker, when is the time to seek help? What's normal?
- Summer Travel Health Advice
Looking for travel health advice? Our experts cover everything from SARS to avoiding blood clots so you can have a safe summer trip.
- Get Spiritual to Lose Weight?
Ready to wave the white flag in your battle of the bulge? Perhaps it's time to surrender to a higher power -- it just might help you lose weight.
- Men: Troubleshoot Your Sex Life
Follow these 5 steps to improve your sexual vitality and performance as you get older.
- Less Stress for Healthier Mom, Baby
Pregnancy itself can be stressful. And combined with other influences, stress during pregnancy can be compounded. But stress relief might be easier than you think.
- Less Stress for Healthier Mom, Baby
Pregnancy itself can be stressful. And combined with other influences, stress during pregnancy can be compounded. But stress relief might be easier than you think.
- 'Thin' Foods to Aid Weight Loss
Do you get plenty of calcium, soy, and fiber in your diet? If not, you're not eating the right 'thin' foods.
- Getting Started With Adoption
Starting a family by adopting may be a second choice, but advocates say it isn't a second-best choice. Still, there is a lot to consider after you've made the decision to adopt a child.
- 10 Ways to Eat Healthy While on Vacation
Don't leave your good eating habits behind when you get away from it all
- Can't Shed Those Pounds?
Sleep loss can effect appetite and metabolism and make it harder to lose weight.
- Heart-Failure Treatment by Device
Technological breakthroughs are changing the course of heart-failure treatment -- but doubts remain about how many people will benefit in the near future.
- Choosing the Sex of Your Child
Several options are available for choosing the sex of your child, but none are guaranteed.
- Stop Unconscious Overeating
How to be more aware of maintaining healthy eating habits.
- Healthy Food for Living Longer
Food for living longer generally falls into the vegetarian diet. If you want to eat foods for living longer, consider a plant-based diet.
- Is Your House Making You Sick?
Do you have a sick house? Lead paint, pesticides, and pollution can contribute to sick house syndrome. Here are 10 things you can do to keep your house, and you, healthy.
- Cholesterol Control: The Alternatives
Doctors call it hypercholesterolemia, but most people know it as plain old high cholesterol.
- How to Stop Nagging
Find more effective ways to communicate in your relationship, and leave the nagging behind.
- How to Avoid Weight Loss Crash and Burn
How to stay on track with a diet plan.
- How to Stop Nagging
Is your nagging driving your spouse crazy? Here's how to communicate without being a nag.
- Choosing Child Care Service
Choosing child care service requires doing your homework, whether you are looking for a day care center or at-home care.
- No-Strings-Attached Sex
Can sex among friends be beneficial or detrimental?
- Cosmetic Surgery on the Sly.
Can minor cosmetic surgery revitalize you over the weekend? Yes and no.
- Pregnancy's Ups and Downs
The problems that come with pregnancy -- such as changes in lifestyle, day care, income, career, and sibling adjustment -- are common, according to mental health experts.
- Sleeping Well in Hard Times
World events combined with everyday stresses can combine to cause sleep problems.
- How to Sleep Better
From having occasional difficulty sleeping to insomnia, there is a lot you can do to get a better night's sleep, feel refreshed when you awake, and remain alert throughout the day.
- You May Have a Sleep Disorder If...
Wake up to this simple fact: You are not supposed to be sleepy, with your feet draggin' and lids laggin' during the day.
- Health Ad Red Flags
Many health ads scream results. Here's how to tell the good from the bad.
- Winning Mental Strategies for Weight Loss
What's keeping you from losing weight successfully? Chances are, it's not just what you're eating and how much (or how little) you're exercising. For most people, a major part of the problem is how they think about their food, their exercise, and themselves.
- Baby's Coming -- But When?
Folk wisdoms for inducing labor have been passed through generations, but do any of them really work?
- Relieve Allergies the Natural Way
Some allergies can be relieved without medicine. Here are some tips on how to ease symptoms naturally.
- Advice for Expectant Fathers
Expectant fathers go through profound changes, too, even though their bodies don't change. Overcoming fears and assumptions is part becoming a father.
- Just Shy or Social Anxiety Disorder
People with social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, tend to be sensitive to criticism and rejection, have difficulty asserting themselves, and suffer from low self-esteem.
- Skinny Sipping: Drink Pounds Away
You can trick your metabolism with calcium and fill up with low-calorie beverages to help weight loss.
- Four Keys to Success
You can lose weight and keep it off, no matter what your body type or genetics -- here are four tips that will help.
- Sexless in The City
One click around the TV dial, one flip through your favorite magazine, and it's hard to ignore: Sex seems to be everywhere -- with everybody doing it more often, with more partners, in more ways than ever before.
- Sexless in The City
You may be part of a growing group of adults known as involuntary celibates -- otherwise healthy folks who want to have sex but for one reason or another can't make it happen in their lives.
- Carbs for Weight Loss?
Can carbs really aid weight loss?
- Is There a Magic Weight Loss Carb?
Is there really such things as good carbohydrates and bad carbohydrates? How do you tell them apart?
- How Many Drugs Are You Taking?
Non-prescription and prescription drug interaction problems can spiral out of control if you aren't careful.
- 'Oh, My Aching Body'
Aches and pains abound, so what are your pain relief options? Should you go to the doctor or treat it yourself? Read on.