Recipes for Health: Orecchiette With Fresh and Dried Beans and Tomatoes

Once the beans are done, this pasta dish takes only 15 minutes.

















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Well: How Music May Make Babies Team Players

Researchers found that toddlers who were bounced to the beat of a song tended to be more helpful.

















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Well: Keeping Your Cool

Summer heat waves are becoming more frequent and increasingly intense. They put both young and old, the physically active and the sedentary, at risk of a heat-related illness and death.

















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On Air Force One, No Lightening Up on Burgers and Cake

The food on the president’s plane is plentiful in quantity and broad in appeal, but not always the perfect mirror of the nutritional recommendations coming out of the first lady’s office.

















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Well: 50 Ways to Love Your Quinoa

I continue to find new uses for quinoa, which keeps well in the refrigerator after it’s cooked and adds protein and textures to these easy salads, including some inspired by the ideas of the vegetarian cookbook author Deborah Madison.

















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Well: Ask Well: Fatty Liver and Diet

A reader asks: My 22-year-old son has been diagnosed with fatty liver. What kinds of foods should be avoided in his diet?

















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Recipes for Health: Mediterranean Cucumber and Yogurt Salad With Red or Black Quinoa

Red quinoa adds color and substance to a typically Mediterranean mix of yogurt and finely diced cucumber.





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Well: Supplements Found to Ease Gestational Diabetes

Pregnant women with the condition who took calcium and vitamin D during a six-week trial reduced their blood sugar and cholesterol levels, researchers say.

















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Well: Living With Cancer: The New Medicine

For almost two years, I have benefited from the new medicine derived from the new science, much to my surprise.

















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Well: Aspirin May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk

A new study adds to the evidence that low-dose aspirin, known to reduce the risk for heart disease, may also reduce the risk for pancreatic cancer.

















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