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By Meredith Melnick |  Who Are Teens' Sexual Role Models? Turns Out, It's Their Parents
By Bonnie Rochman Parents may think their teens aren't listening to them about anything, let alone sex, but new research shows that 45% of them consider their parents — not friends or celebrities — their sexual role models. The study from the University [...] |  Kids Are Safer in the Car With Their Grandparents Behind the Wheel
By Alice Park The next time you put the kids in the car, you might want to ask Grandma to drive. Kids are twice as safe when their grandparents are behind the wheel instead of their parents, a new study shows. Dr. Fred [...] |  NFL Players May Be More Vulnerable to Alzheimer's Disease
By Alice Park Retired NFL players are more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a form of dementia that can lead to Alzheimer's disease, than similarly aged men who didn't play football, report researchers in a study presented Monday at the Alzheimer's [...] | | Casey Anthony Released: Can She Ever Lead a Normal Life?
By Bonnie Rochman What would you do if you met Casey Anthony in Target? She yearns to stroll the aisles of the chic big-box store, at least according to letters she wrote while imprisoned on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Anthony, [...] | | Geckos Won't Cure AIDS or Impotence, Filipino Authorities Warn
By Laura Blue |  What Salt and Prozac Have in Common
By Maia Szalavitz Recently, two medical controversies have made headlines: the question of whether too much salt is bad for your health and the debate over whether widely used antidepressant drugs work any better than placebo. The two issues are not as unrelated [...] |  Study Questions the Link Between Food Environment and Diet Quality
By Carina Storrs/Health.com Neighborhoods that are short on supermarkets and long on fast-food restaurants and convenience stores have been blamed for contributing to unhealthy diets and obesity in the people who live there. So it makes sense that improving access to fresh produce [...] |  Got PMS? Milk Marketers Launch an Audacious, Funny New Ad Campaign
By Laura Blue Starting this week, an eyebrow-raising ad campaign will take on one of the last taboos of America's media landscape: menstruation. Though anything to do with periods is still often considered a gross-out, the California Milk Processor Board is betting you'll chuckle at a "funny, [...] |  Cheers! 10 Summer Cocktails Made Less Fattening
By Alyson Krueger Nothing says summer like sipping a frothy cocktail while lounging on the beach. Too bad those delicious drinks are also probably diet busters, packing hundreds of calories you don't need. That's where Healthland comes in: following are recipes for 10 [...] | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | | Follow Healthland on Twitter |  | Join today to start receiving HEALTHLAND's Twitter updates!
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