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When should your teen or tween start using skin products?

Social media and stores are full of products that promise perfect skin. Increasingly these products are being marketed to tweens and teens as well as adults. For the most part tweens and teens do not need specialized skin products — but sometimes they make sense.

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Stat of the Week

Think of your arteries as major highways carrying oxygen, nutrients, hormones, immune cells, and other essentials packed into the bloodstream to every outpost in the body. Then thousands of miles of veins allow depleted blood to return to the lungs to unload carbon dioxide –– to be breathed out –– and stock up on oxygen and nutrients before traveling to the heart to be pumped out again.

What might interfere with a smooth return trip and how can you improve vein health?

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