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Eat Your Colors
You can put up a good fight against aging and dementia just by eating your fruits and vegetables. Also: The antioxidants that keep you vibrant and healthy.
Wino Diet, Nature's Champions

Your Lovely Bones
Bone loss and joint pain—these breakdowns are an inevitability. Strengthen your bones and ease your joints with a few alternatives like herbs and acupuncture.
Calcium Confusion, The Joy of Soy

A Healthy Start
Between eye-popping packaging and children's predilection for the sweet and salty, grocery shopping with kids can be a recipe for a junk food overdose.
Sweetener Standoff, Nonstick Pans

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