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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I was meeting an old friend I hadn't seen in months. Walking toward her, everything looked right: the hair, the outfit, the bag slung over her shoulder. -
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A few months ago, a blood test showed I had high cholesterol. My doctor suggested statins - cholesterol lowering drugs. I immediately snapped into healthy skeptic mode. And I hope you do the same.
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The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the mouth may be the window to your body.
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A record 58% of us take vitamins, minerals, gummies. This sounds like a wonderful statistic. It suggests that most Americans really care about their health. Enough to shell out $60 billion dollars a year for nutritional supplements. Wonderful, yes, but also somewhat troubling.
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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.
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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.
