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What's the Connection Between Body Weight and COPD? 05/25/2017 08:00pm • There's no hiding it, America: You have a problem with your weight. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases reports nearly 70 percent of Americans are classified as overweight or obese. Clearly, most of us have a few pounds to lose, but that's not usually the case for pa Managing Multiple Sclerosis When You Have Other Health Conditions 05/25/2017 08:00pm • It's hard enough having a diagnosis of multiple scerlosis, the autoimmune condition that damages nerves and leads to physical and emotional challenges. But it's even harder to cope with MS when you have additional chronic health conditions or "comorbidities," such as high blood pressure or heart di How Not to Totally Fall Off the Health Wagon on Summer Vacation 05/25/2017 08:00pm • Welcome to vacation season -- that time when all of those months of healthy eating and exercising to get into swimsuit shape finally pay off. But it can only take a week to fall off the health wagon and erase some of those hard-earned efforts. While you will want to enjoy and eat what you want (it i What Employers Think of Your Online Graduate Certificate 05/24/2017 08:00pm • After Logan Agnaarsson earned a master's degree online in agricultural and life sciences last year, he realized he wanted to learn more in particular about plants and soils. So the Washington resident turned to an online graduate certificate program in horticultural science at North Carolina State 9 Foods to Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes 05/24/2017 08:00pm • First comes the bad news about food and preventing Type 2 diabetes. "Unfortunately, there is no magic food or food combination that can help prevent Type 2 diabetes," says Vandana Sheth, a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified diabetes educator in Los Angeles and a spokesperson for the Ac Losing Weight as a Millennial: It's Complicated 05/24/2017 08:00pm • Debbie Zeger had the world at her fingertips: A recent college graduate in New York City, she was eager to try new restaurants with friends, grab drinks with colleagues and say yes when someone cute asked her on a date. What she wasn't eager to do was exercise or continue the Weight Watchers plan sh Can Emerging Markets Continue Rallying? 05/24/2017 08:00pm • After three losing years, emerging markets finally put in a positive performance in 2016 and have blown past the Standard & Poor's 500 index so far this year. One of the major emerging market exchange-traded funds, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (ticker: EEM), is up 17.65 percent for the yea Final seconds dissected in Lansdowne stroller death case 05/24/2017 05:34pm • LEESBURG, Va. — Lawyers for the man charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 death of an infant argued in court that it was forensically and “physically impossible” for the Leesburg driver to have done anything on his smartphone that could have caused the boy's death. In a two-hour INTU Stock: Intuit Inc. Sets Positive Tone for Tax Filers 05/23/2017 08:00pm • Intuit Inc. (ticker: INTU) shares are trading higher by more than 7 percent after the company reported an impressive earnings beat during its most important quarter of the year. Intuit reported fiscal third-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $3.90 on Tuesday afternoon, topping consensus analyst What Methods Can ADHD Kids Try to Cope With Their Disorder? 05/23/2017 08:00pm • Parents with children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may wonder how they can help their child cope beyond the traditional treatment methods that are usually recommended. "A first line of treatment involves medication and behavioral intervention," says Dr. Pilar Trelles, child and 8 Unexpected Signs You're Stressed 05/23/2017 08:00pm • Is your body trying to tell you something?Are you losing hair? Gaining weight? Developing a rash? There's a good chance that the culprit behind these seemingly unrelated physical maladies is nothing more than good, old-fashioned stress. The body's fight-or-flight system releases stress hormones such Does Your Portfolio Have Enough Active Share Exposure? 05/23/2017 08:00pm • For the last decade, financial markets have wandered through unchartered territories. A recession, tightly controlled monetary policy, unstable geopolitical conditions and volatile commodity prices all took aim at the market's ascension. Despite some temporary drawdowns, the Standard & Poor's 50 How to Handle a Picky Eater 05/23/2017 08:00pm • Yuck! Gross! Ew! If the sweet symphonies of "mom, I don't like this" or "dad, I don't like that" sound all too familiar to your family, you've got a picky eater on your hands. Children can have a variety of eating challenges, and it's often extremely difficult for parents to know how to navigate th 7 ETFs for a Solid Portfolio Defense 05/23/2017 08:00pm • Exchange-traded funds that offer protection.Think it's silly to think about portfolio defense when the market is at all-time highs? Well, talk to investors who were fully long in mid-2000 and late 2007 and ask them if they had any regrets. Don't get caught flat-footed; the following exchange-traded What are the best heart-healthy exercises? 05/23/2017 08:00am • Doctors want you to get up. They want you to move. Americans are too sedentary, they say -- and fitness is one of the greatest predictors of heart health in middle-aged adults. But are some exercises better than others to keep our hearts healthy? Doctors say yes. And one is recommended more than