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• Eating can cause low blood pressure

  If you sometimes feel dizzy or lightheaded after eating a meal, you could have a common condition called postprandial hypotension, meaning low blood pressure after eating, reports the July 2010 issue of the Harvard Heart Letter. Digestion is a... Read more »

• Difficulty staying asleep? Follow these tips to remedy sleep-maintenance insomnia

  Insomnia is often thought of as trouble falling asleep. One form of it, called sleep-maintenance insomnia, is difficulty staying asleep, or waking too early and struggling to get back to sleep. Difficulty staying asleep often gives rise to worry... Read more »

• Spending time outdoors is good for you

  Summer is here. The outdoors beckons. Heed that call and you’ll reap physical and mental health benefits, reports the July 2010 issue of the Harvard Health Letter. Here are five good reasons to get outdoors: Your vitamin D levels rise.... Read more »

• Marriage leads to better health for men

  Married men are healthier than men who were never married or whose marriages ended in divorce or widowhood, according to a major survey of American adults. Is marriage itself responsible for better health and longer life? It’s hard to be sure,... Read more »

• Protecting children from sexual abuse by pedophiles

  Parents can take several steps to protect children from becoming victims of sexual abuse by pedophiles, reports the July issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. Few disorders are as repulsive to the public as pedophilia, defined as sexual... Read more »

• Color, odor changes in urine usually—but not always—harmless

  If you've ever eaten asparagus, you know it can make urine smell odd. In some people, eating beets turns urine pink or red—which can be alarming because it looks like blood in the urine. These odor and color changes are harmless. But if urine... Read more »