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Eating right is essential to keeping your body running at its best.

4 food groups every vegetarian should eat

Constance Brown-Riggs
theGRIO REPORT - Whether you're a vegetarian, flexitarian – or you fall somewhere in between – it’s important to "Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day."
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Eat cuisine from our roots for better health

Constance Brown-Riggs
theGRIO REPORT - The foods, robust flavors and healthy cooking techniques that were core to the wellbeing of our ancestors may actually be the path to optimal health...
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Study: Fatty diets may affect sperm count

Dr. Tyeese Gaines
theGRIO REPORT - Of all the bad things that come from eating fatty foods -- heart attacks, strokes, high cholesterol or obesity -- researchers have found yet another: it can decrease a man's ability to have children...
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Filmmaker debunks America's 'obesity crisis'

Dr. Tyeese Gaines
theGRIO REPORT - Even with the number of obese Americans rising -- over 72 million adults and 12.5 million children and adolescents -- Darryl Roberts, filmmaker and director of America the Beautiful 2, explains that talking about obesity is missing the mark...
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5 best supplements for men

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Blackdoctor.org - When it comes to dietary supplements, men -- like women -- desire better health, disease prevention and improving the look, feel and performance of their bodies. Take a look at the five best supplements for men...
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Knowing risks of heart disease can save lives

Dr. Tyeese Gaines
theGRIO REPORT - Forty percent of African-American adults have some form of heart disease, and they are 30 percent more likely to die from it than whites...
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Study says dementia is linked to high cholesterol

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VIDEO - What's bad for the heart can also be bad for the mind. A new study found that people who have high cholesterol in their 40s and 50s have a 66 percent higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia later in life...
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