Doctor Knows Best: 15 Health Tips from Top Doctors

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By Ted Spiker

Along with all the disease stomping, heart reviving, baby delivering, and overall people healing they do, doctors have another full-time job: keeping themselves healthy. Scratch that -- keeping themselves healthiest. So instead of peeking into their medical practices, we looked at what they actually practice -- in their own lives. Use personal strategies and insider tips from the best medical pros to supercharge your health this year.

How to Head Off a Headache

Start double-fisting beverages the minute the throbbing begins. "I'll have a bottle of water in one hand and a coffee in the other," says Jennifer Ashton, MD, author of Your Body Beautiful and cohost of ABC's The Revolution. That's because many headaches are caused by dehydration, while caffeine is known to curb them. If the drinks don't alleviate the pounding in an hour, she pops ibuprofen.

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bodyman19471 wrote:

Doctor known's best? Who are you kidding? They give you a drug that usually have as many ill effects as what it is meant to treat. That's what doctors do. Why, . Only 30% of medical schools in the U.S. require a separate nutrition course. On average, students received 23.9 contact hours of nutrition instruction during medical school (range was 2 to 70 hours). Only 40 of the 126 medical schools require the 25 hour minimum recommended by the National Academy of Sciences..

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