Understanding Outpatient Surgery
More than 60 percent of elective surgery procedures in the United States are now performed as outpatient surgeries.
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Your Complete Guide to Being Well and Staying Healthy
Heart Health Zone
Heart disease is the biggest health risk Americans face today. If you don’t have heart disease now, you can help prevent it. If you’ve already been diagnosed with heart disease, you can keep it from getting worse. Here are the tools to get you started.
High Cholesterol Zone
There's a lot of news about cholesterol these days, and with good reason.
High cholesterol contributes to heart disease, which kills more Americans
than all cancers combined. A regular exercise routine and good eating
habits — along with medication if your doctor recommends it — can keep
cholesterol levels under control and lower your risk of heart disease.
Skin Health Zone
The skin is your body's largest organ. It protects you against bacteria, viruses, dirt, wind, heat and cold. And it serves as a "window" to the body, alerting doctors when something is wrong.
Health Tip of the Day
A Runner's Guide to Avoiding Injury
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Build your mileage slowly; don't increase your weekly distance by more than 10 percent.
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Follow hard days with easy recovery days.
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Don't increase your mileage every week. Plan an easy week into your training schedule every so often.
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Cross-train consistently. Not only walk or run, but also swim, bicycle, in-line skate or stair-climb.
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Your risk of an overuse injury increases dramatically as you approach 40 to 50 miles per week. Exercise caution when covering such distances.
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After you compete in a race, do easy workouts for as many days as there were miles in the race.