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Editorial Page January 4, 2007  RSS feed
Dear Hearts and Gentle People
      I read somewhere that what you do on New Years Eve sets the tone for the way things will turn out for the rest of the year. This has certainly proven to be true in my case. I spent last New Years Eve lying on the sofa watching television while hubby sawed logs in his La- Z-Boy. I've pretty much done that the entire year and in all probability I'll be doing the same thing again this December 31.
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Fad diets or starving yourself are not healthy strategies
      Many holiday overindulgers rush into fad diets, intent on shedding the pounds they've gained. Other newyear penitents simply starve themselves. Either approach is wrong, says a University of Georgia expert.
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Early detection is key to preventing vision loss
      More than 2 million Americans over the age of 40 have it and there are 65 million suspected cases of it across the globe. But, despite the staggering numbers, many of those who do have it don't even know it. The disease is glaucoma, an eye disease that can rob people of their peripheral vision, and left untreated, can result in total blindness.
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Risk factors for hypertension start young
      By age 10, some black children already have high nighttime blood pressure, an early signal of impending cardiovascular disease, a new study shows. As they grow up, black children also show greater increases in nighttime blood pressure, according to a study that followed children's blood pressures over 15 years.
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