Healthy Living
Monthly articles on overall health improvement, including articles on fitness, nutrition and family living.
This Month's Features
Workouts a Boon for Breast Cancer Patients Exercise may be the last thing breast cancer patients want to do, especially if they're fatigued. But workouts can improve quality of life, boost self-esteem during a difficult time, and even help women get through their chemotherapy treatments on schedule, two new studies find.
To learn
more, visit this month's fitness
section.
Family History Has Strong Effect on Cardiac Risk Paying attention to the heart risk factors of close relatives of people with coronary heart disease could prevent more than 40 percent of early heart deaths, Scottish researchers say. Find out more in this month's family
and home section.
Meditation May Help Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferers For rheumatoid arthritis sufferers whose painful illness prompts depression, relief may come from the practice of an age-old technique already embraced by millions around the world: meditation. Learn more
in this month's mind
and body section.
Fruits, Veggies Won't Lower Colon Cancer Risk Although eating lots of fruits and vegetables is good for your health, doing so will not reduce your risk for colon cancer, a Canadian study finds. Learn more
in this month's nutrition
section.