Q. What’s the right age to start monitoring your blood pressure? I’m a multitasking mom, 43, with one kid in college and a 3-year-old (second marriage!). — Maura, via email
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ALLEN G. BREED
12/10/11 10:01 PM
Long before he discovered Friedrich Hayek and other free-market economists, Ron Paul got a lesson in sound money from his oldest brother, Bill.
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Some of you may have heard us say once (or 20 times) that it’s as vital to walk every day as it is to sleep every night. You wouldn’t skip your ZZZs; don’t skip your strides. Yep, walking is that critical to your health and well-being.
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The positive coffee news just keeps percolating. Actually, not just good coffee news — good caffeine news. But if, like young Dr. Mike, you “heart” your morning joe, it may come down to the same thing.
The latest on coffee? As if fending off Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, asthma and siesta urges wasn’t enough, it’s now been found to cut your skin cancer risk.
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How often have you said to someone, “You’ve got great hair,” and had him or her grin back, “Lucky genes!” But what if that person — or you — also got some unlucky genes? Most of us inherited grandma’s arthritis or dad’s bald spot or mom’s iffy ticker. But listen up: You have more control over your genes than you think.
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Advocates of Occupy SF want to bring more attention to dirty dealings between corporations and politicians. But The City’s Department of Public Health issued a warning to the movement’s campers on Tuesday that they are also dirty — in a more literal sense.
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Seeing pink? Pink is now the can’t-miss-it color for October. It’s splashed on everything from pizza boxes to the White House.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn’t kidding a few years ago when she said Congress had to pass Obamacare so the rest of the country could discover what it contained. Ever since then, a steady stream of problems has emerged as people pored through the law’s 2,700 pages of legalese. Just last week, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., found a new shocker that ought to be especially worrisome to anybody who cares about protecting the privacy of their medical records.
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