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Want your child to grow up healthy, happy, smart, capable, and resilient? Play with them. Infants and toddlers thrive on playful games...
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Need a little motivation and structure to ramp up your walking routine? Want to wake up your workouts but not quite ready...
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An F may mean failure in school, but the letter earns high marks in your diet. The two biggest dietary Fs —...
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In parts of the United States and Canada, warming temperatures driven by climate change may be contributing to a rise in tick-borne...
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You’re in a doctor’s office with a clipboard and a pile of medical forms on your lap. For the umpteenth time, you...
Read out allHow do trees and green spaces enhance our health?
Trees enhance life in a multitude of ways. They combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. They muffle sound...
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By the time boys are 8 or 10, they’re steeped in Marvel action heroes with bulging, oversized muscles and rock-hard abs. By...
Read out allHarvard Health Ad Watch: New drug, old song, clever tagline
It’s not often that a new drug comes along that could help nearly a quarter of the adult population. But when it...
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Concussion is one of the most common injuries to the brain, affecting about two million children and teens every year. It is...
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If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then consider the tongue a sort of check-engine light for the body. The...
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