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• Do you know how many calories your workout burns?

  Fetched: November 9th, 2007, 5:49pm EST

  Find out if you're working as hard as you think you are with the Calories Burned Calculator.

• Excess Pounds Raise Women's Cancer Risk

  Fetched: November 9th, 2007, 5:49pm EST

  A study of more than 1 million British women finds that overweight or obesity is to blame for about 5 percent of all cancer cases. That's about 6,000 out of the 120,000 cancers affecting British women each year.

• Spirituality Helps Older Black Women Beat Hypertension

  Fetched: November 9th, 2007, 5:49pm EST

  Spirituality helps older black American women with high blood pressure stick to the drug regimens that keep the condition under control, new research suggests. Older black Americans tend to have poorer anti-hypertensive medication adherence than either younger blacks or white patients, even though adherence helps reduce hypertension-related health problems and deaths, noted a team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

• Cholesterol Drug Tied to Sleep Disturbances

  Fetched: November 9th, 2007, 5:49pm EST

  Lowering your cholesterol could interrupt your slumber. A new report found that the statin Zocor disrupts sleep patterns in some users. "The study suggests that simvastatin [Zocor] is more likely to have sleep disruption," said Dr. Sidney Smith, past president of the American Heart Association and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. "The extent to which this would be a significant problem for patients is uncertain