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Flu is unpredictable and how severe it is can vary widely from one season to the next depending on many things, including:

A Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of disability.

As some of you have already learned from my pages and my blogs, I eat and advocate eating a healthy plant-based diet.

This year an estimated one million Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer, and 9,000 will die from the disease according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. Skin cancer is the most prevalent form of all cancers in the United States.

The consequences of too much salt are hypertension and/or high blood pressure, which increases the risk of a stroke or heart attack.

WASHINGTON — Nearly half the people who need potentially lifesaving checks for the nation’s No. 2 cancer killer — colorectal cancer — miss them, despite years of public efforts to make colon screening as widespread as tests for breast and prostate cancer.

Heart disease risk factors are conditions or habits that make a person more likely to develop the disease. They can also increase the chances that an existing disease will get worse. Important risk factors for heart disease include: