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The aptly named Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test with Weeks Estimator uses the level of human chorionic growth hormone (hCG) in a woman’s body, which typically doubles every two to three days, to deduce when the pregnancy started. “If you were to actually crack open a standard pregnancy test today, you would find one strip,” explains Clearblue Brand Manager Kirsten Suarez. “This new test has two strips inside: a high-sensitivity and a low-sensitivity strip that work together to measure the concentration of hCG....

More from Prevention: The Scary Connection Between Height And Cancer Risk Although the task force made the same recommendation in 2004, many women are still screened on an annual basis in the hopes of not being one of the 15,500 women the American Cancer Society estimates will die of ovarian cancer this year. “Too many women are dying needlessly from ovarian cancer,” says radiologist Margaret Cuomo, MD, author of the upcoming A World Without Cancer and sister of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo....

Dieting isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. When you approach healthier eating habits as a way of life, rather than a quick, short term solution to drop a few pounds, you realize that a bad few days needn’t derail your diet. A bad day is only that—one bad day. In the big picture, it is just a blip on your screen. I tell my clients they should aim to eat well 90% of the time, which leaves 10% for indulgent days and occasional slips....

Chain-store pharmacists have quotas to meet. Fifteen minutes: that’s how long pharmacists at chains like CVS, Walgreen’s, and Rite Aid have to fill a prescription once it’s called in. One CVS pharmacist, who wants to remain anonymous, even compares the process to McDonald’s. “Sometimes it’s [filling] 25 medications at once, bang, bang, bang,” he says. “If we take longer than we’re supposed to, we get written up and have to meet with district managers....

Researchers analyzed the blood of more than 1,000 70-year-old adults in India and found that the more phthalates they had in their bloodstreams, the higher their blood sugars were. Why? Phthalates are believed to disrupt hormones in the body, and diabetes is a hormonal disease—so it follows that the more hormone-disrupting chemicals you have, the more likely you are to get diabetes. While more studies are needed to confirm that phthalates are in fact a trigger for diabetes, the chemical has already been linked to a slew of other health problems, including autism, weight gain, infertility, and even some cancers....

Where There’s Smoke… Back in the ’70s, when I was a kid, every Sunday from April through August, my cousins and I met up at grandma’s cookouts. Those backyard BBQs were hell on the yard, what with 20-odd kids running amok, all hopped-up on Hi-C, Jell-O, and other hyphenated foodstuffs. But what really did a number on the grass, flowers, trees, and shrubbery was the smoke. All afternoon, my grandfather presided over a charcoal-filled cauldron that emitted a mushroom cloud that must have been visible from Skylab....

REDNESSPrevent it: Limit sun exposure, alcohol, and spicy food intake, all of which dilate blood vessels.Fix it now: Dermablend Intense Powder Camo ($30, amazon.com) hides redness.Long-term fix: Jurlique Calendula Redness Rescue Restorative Treatment Serum ($54, amazon.com) stops ruddiness. [sidebar]SALLOWNESSPrevent it: Preserve collagen, which gives skin a glow, by wearing a cream with SPF 30 daily.Fix it now: Clinique Superprimer Colour Corrects Sallowness ($39, amazon.com) counters yellowness.Long-term fix: Bare Minerals Biolucent Mineral Brightening Treatment ($50, qvc....

The main flaw: While some complex vitamins such as vitamins C and B benefit from minimal cooking, nutrients such as cancer-fighting lycopene need heat to be released. What’s more, heating foods to 118°F doesn’t “kill” protein or fiber, as raw food gurus suggest. In fact, cooking makes them easier to digest, says Nelda Mercer, RD, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. And the belief that cooked food ferments in your GI tract?...

Chicago researchers studied the cognitive abilities of a group of 294 adults in their late 70s and 80s by surveying them on the amount of information-seeking activities they engaged in during their early childhood, adult, and late-life years. They checked in with them regularly for about six years prior to their deaths, after which they examined their brains at autopsy for common brain lesions and signs of dementia. Those who participated in creative or intellectual pastimes more frequently over the course of their lifetime had about a 32% slower late-life cognitive decline rate than those who partook in these brainy enterprises less often, according to the study published in the journal Neurology....

Two new studies published in the journal Nutrition found that the origins of our calories are more than a little surprising. Researchers analyzed data from 22,852 people who participated in the five-year National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys and sorted out our nutritional intake by age and food group. Starting with the young ones: children ages 6-11 are getting the preponderance of their calories from store-bought, grain-based desserts (that’s a whole 4....

In new stomach-turning news, a gastroenteritis-causing virus could be lurking on restaurant silverware and dishes—even if they’ve been washed, according to a new study published online on PLOS ONE. To “simulate a worst-case scenario,” researchers at the Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science infused cream cheese and reduced fat milk—both of which are difficult to properly clean off of tableware—with disease-causing murine norovirus (MNV-1), Escherichia coli (E....

The dairy-free mixes taste like a thicker version of vegetable juice (think V8) or fruit smoothie, with a slightly sweet taste and pronounced vegetable or fruit kick. NUWI actually suggests eating the savory flavors like a soup, which does sound a little like goop… MORE: Coconut Water Is Lame: Five New Drinks That Are Way Healthier So what about nutrition? Quinoa is the main ingredient in most Nuwi flavors, with up to 9 g of protein and 6 g dietary fiber per 10-ounce bottle....

Well, I do occasionally have swipe free and unplugged days. That “possible” is not now while I’m in this graduate program, but I do pocket an hour or so unplugged here or there to be alone with my own thoughts. Recently 60 minutes did an episode about mindfulness with Jon Kabat Zinn, the MIT trained scientist turned meditator and founder of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction clinic. Mr. Anderson Cooper attended a retreat with other big and busy names, and humbly whined and pined for his phone....

The research: Researchers from Ohio State University followed 401 women for a year. After examining blood, urine, and saliva samples, along with 12 months of daily journal entries, study author Courtney Denning-Johnson Lynch and her team discovered women with the highest levels of alpha-amylase—a biomarker of stress measured in saliva—were 29% less likely to become pregnant each month, and twice as likely to be deemed infertile after 12 months of trying....

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Sounds like a lot, yes, but it’s only about 4½ cups—2 cups from fruit and the rest from vegetables. And it’s completely doable with the 10 delicious ideas here. Each of our hearty salads packs in more than half your daily produce requirement. To meet—even exceed—your quota, simply add our suggested bonus dish, made with similar ingredients as the main recipe (which makes shopping easy!). Curried Tofu with Asian SlawCounts as 5 produce servings!...