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Both late sleepers and early risers have bigger waists and more body fat.  Lazy Sundays are as bad for your waistline as rising before dawn.  In a recent study, Canadian scientists revealed that sleeping for 5 to 6 hours per night makes you 69% more likely to accumulate pounds than if you sleep 8 hours.  [...]

University researchers discovered that eating vegetables may keep your brain young.  A study of 3,000 people age 65 and over, indicated that those who ate more than two servings of vegetables per day had a 40% slower rate of cognitive decline than those who ate one serving or less.  Specifically, green, leafy vegetables, like collard [...]