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Our Wellness Articles have been carefully selected to bring you relevant health conscious news from a number of credible information sources. Current, thought provoking and accurate are elements that each article must pass to be incorporated into our collection. We will do our best to bring you smart health information on topics that are valuable in helping you to live a good life. If you have access to some well-grounded information that you think would be valued by our Wellpath Clinic community, pass it along. We’ll make sure it gets posted.

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Wellpath Clinic - Sunscreen and Safety
Facts you need to know about Sunscreen and safety
Wellpath Clinic Exclusive

According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), there has been a surge in exaggerated SPF claims above 50 and new disclosures about potentially hazardous ingredients, in particular recently developed government data linking the common sunscreen ingredient vitamin A to accelerated development of skin tumors and lesions. The evidence against vitamin A is far from conclusive, but as long as it is suspect we recommend that consumers choose vitamin A-free sunscreens...
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Scientific American Mind, May 2009
Avoiding Sugar Key to Ending Senior Moments Lowering blood sugar levels may thwart forgetfulness
By Nikhil Swaminatha

Senior moments, those pesky instances of not so total recall—forgetting where we left our keys or what we did last weekend—are a subtle but significant part of the aging process. Another effect of growing old: rising blood sugar levels, which typically take off in our late 30s or early 40s as our bodies become less adept at metabolizing glucose in the bloodstream. Now a study has linked these rising levels with momentary forgetfulness, pinpointing exactly where in the brain the aging process acts—a finding that could help the elderly ward off memory lapses…
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Scientific American, February 2008
Plastic (Not) Fantastic: Food Containers Leach a Potentially Harmful Chemical Is bisphenol A, a major ingredient in many plastics, healthy for children and other living things?
By David Biello

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a ubiquitous compound in plastics. First synthesized in 1891, the chemical has become a key building block of plastics from polycarbonate to polyester; in the U.S. alone more than 2.3 billion pounds (1.04 million metric tons) of the stuff is manufactured annually…
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The New York Times, March 3, 2009
Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
By Duff Wilson

BOSTON — In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects.

Mr. Zerden later discovered something by searching online that he began sharing with his classmates. The professor was not only a full-time member of the Harvard Medical faculty, but a paid consultant to 10 drug companies, including five makers of cholesterol treatments…
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The New York Times, March 17, 2009
Vital Signs Exercise: A Pace for Fitness: 100 Steps a Minute
By Eric Nagourney

A journey of a thousand miles may begin with a single step, but even if you take just 2,999 more within half an hour, you may be on the road to fitness. A new study finds that people who walk to keep in shape can achieve the right intensity if they take at least 100 steps a minute…
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