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- December 15, 2010
Dr. Mehmet Oz reflects on the untimely death of actor James Gandolfini, reminding us not to ignore the most obvious risk factor that may have caused the actor to have a heart attack at the age of 51: obesity. More than two-thirds of people in the U.S. are overweight, but many are hesitant to address
READ MOREDr. Oz said it was his wife who first encouraged him to get involved with television: "She was moping around about how many of my patients didn't appreciate how they had brought these illnesses upon themselves and the things they could have done to avoid me doing invasive procedures on them." Oz came to realize
READ MOREBack in 2011, Dr. Mehmet Oz found himself in the center of a controversy. After the staff of his TV show had an independent laboratory test five different brands of apple juice, Oz sounded the alarm on the high levels of arsenic. Several samples had considerably more than the ten parts per billion that the
READ MOREA healthy, engaged, productive workplace is good for a company's bottom line. And it turns out that a majority of employees say they want to take part in wellness programs and be engaged at work. That's the finding of a recent Virgin Pulse survey of 3,822 employees at 361 different companies.
READ MOREDo you think homework should be reduced or eliminated for elementary school kids?
READ MOREDove is kicking off a new "real beauty" campaign to tell women they look better than they think they look. Dove recently released their short film, Real Beauty Sketches, documenting a social experiment whereby women saw themselves as much less attractive than objective observers depicted them. The campaign was created as a way to help
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