Janice M. Horowitz
Janice M. Horowitz covered health for Time magazine for more than two decades. She created and hosted the public radio segment, Dueling Docs: The Cure to Contradictory Medicine and has contributed to The Economist, Allure, The New York Times, Newsweek and PBS's Next Avenue. She is the author of Health Your Self: What's Really Driving Your Care and How to Take Charge.
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Walking - the most natural thing. We walk from one room to the next, up and down aisles in the supermarket, to the car, from the car. We humans are the only animals that walk upright on two legs as our way of getting around. -
You've probably heard that microplastics are floating in our oceans and air, accumulating in our soil. They’ve even seeped into the food chain. Microplastics are everywhere.
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Doctors want to please you. Can that be a bad thing?
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Yum, that's me crunching on a food substance that arrived in my mouth by way of industrial engineering. Food scientists manufactured it to hit bliss points - a perfect balance of salt, sugar and, for a flawless mouth feel, just the right amount of fat.
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I've been known to feel deathly ill when the reading on the thermometer is … 99.3. To me, it feels like a raging fever, but to doctors, not so much.
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I’m going to tell you a story which will make you think I’m something of a nut. It’s about CT scans which use radiation to see your insides vs MRI’s, which don’t. They use magnetic fields and radio waves.
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Chocolate lovers, before you unwrap your next bar, brace yourselves. Researchers just came out with the not-so-sweet news - bite your tongue - that chocolate doesn’t have a single health benefit to recommend it.
