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Women who enjoy a daily dose of coffee may like this perk: It might lower their risk of stroke.

Women in a Swedish study who drank at least a cup of coffee everyday had a 22 to 25 percent lower risk of stroke, compared to those who drank less coffee or none at all.

“Coffee drinkers should rejoice,” said Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “Coffee is often made out to be potentially bad for your heart. There really hasn’t been any study that convincingly said coffee is bad.”

“If you are drinking coffee now, you may be doing some good and you are likely not doing harm,” she added.

Read more: Study: Coffee tied to lower stroke risk in women

By Mairlyn Smith, P.H.Ec

Diets don’t work.

Anything that you can go on you can go off.

How many times have you been on a diet? Go ahead take a minute and count them. Then ask yourself this question, “If diets really worked why am I still searching for that magic weight loss plan?”

This year I want all of us, no matter who you are and what your age is, to get off the diet merry-go-round and make the decision to change your eating habits and embrace a new healthier way of living.

Make your New Year’s Resolution or goal to get healthy and you’ll lose weight in the process.

This year I am targeting my peeps – women over forty.

The media is flooded with information for younger women. It’s as if over forty year old females don’t count anymore. Maybe we aren’t quite as cute or have the same taut skin that we used to but baby we still rock.

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