Try adding these foods to your diet and reduce your risk this cold and flu season!

The beginning of the year is synonymous with stuffed up noses, stockpiled tissue boxes, and harsh raspy coughs. While there is no one solution to fighting off irksome colds-there is a way to better fight the germs by simply watching what you eat. While it is always important to maintain a healthy balanced diet, adding in some nutritional superstars to your daily meals can help you not only catch fewer colds but also cut them short if you do come down with one.

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Blueberries
Berries contain healthy antioxidants that may help improve resistance to colds. Blueberries, red grapes, and other dark-skinned fruit have even more disease fighters.

Try this: Try incorporating frozen berries into your next breakfast. Add berries to your oatmeal, pancakes, or muffins. Or pack some blueberries and red grapes in a zip-block bag for a snack filled with antioxidants. Wash your berries and grapes then store them in the

We come across millions of germs every day (gross, we know). While most are harmless, some bacteria such as E.coli and Salmonella can cause serious infections. The good news? Hand washing, sanitizing lotions and disinfecting communal areas can reduce the chances of infection by 50 percent, according to Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, who has been studying germs in our everyday lives for more than three decades. Check out our tips on how to protect yourself against germs in unexpected places.

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A phyllo dough hors d'oeuvre here, a BLT hangover cure there, and the next thing you know, those skinny jeans are feeling, well, a little snug. A huge diet and exercise program is in order, right? Not if you try a few of these tiny little food tweaks every day. Aim for at least two, but three is even better. You'll save up to about 300 calories a day - potentially, a whopping 2800 calories a week. And since you need to eat an extra 3500 calories to gain one pound (or cut out that amount to drop it), in less than three weeks, you'll ward off that pesky couple of pounds from creeping up on you.

The amazing get-fit panel of experts from Fitist, the one-stop shop for nutrition and kick-ass workouts, shared some of their wait-what?! food swaps that are so easy, and still yummy, that you won't even notice the difference. But your waistline totally will.

Why 19? Research shows that sticking to something for at least 21 days can turn

Often we talk about removing 'bad' foods from our diets and restricting what we eat. Well instead of forcing yourself into a state of deprivation, try a different approach for 2013. Try adding in a handful of healthy foods that are nutrient dense. Foods that feed your body what it craves: vitamins, enzymes, fiber, minerals -- and flavor. Click through for 10 healthy foods to try this year! - By Kathy Patalsky

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Having the flu is just awful. And right now, a lot of us seem to have it--wait, no, not just seem to have it. We do have it! This flu season is turning out to be a bad one. Experts are concerned by how early this flu season started, and by the number of otherwise healthy people who are experiencing especially serious cases of the flu.

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Washing your hands and using sanitizing gels can reduce your risk of getting the flu by 30 percent, so by all means--clean, clean, clean, and the CDC is urging everyone to get vaccinated.

But if you do happen to wind up with the flu, you might want to head to Facebook and install a little app called "Help, I Have the Flu." It'll spin through your friends' profiles, picking up sick-sounding keywords like "sneezing" and "coughing," and scanning check-ins to see who's been at the doctor's office recently. It'll even see who's been staying up late to post, since flu sufferers may have

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Gourmet/Yanes,Romulo A I love when restaurants have online order forms for takeout. It makes the whole process completely easy and convenient, don't you think? Sure! But according to a new study, it may also make it completely easy to order more calories.

Ryan McDevitt, Assistant Professor from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester and one of the study's authors, says that after analyzing the orders placed via the Internet at a pizza chain, research showed something interesting: online customers would over-order.

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In fact, 8 in 10 of us are wearing an ill-fitting sports bra. We may even know it (I have at least two that function solely as my emergency can't-find-the-good-bras-anywhere fill-ins because they are either way too tight or super-loose).

So which kind do you need? The LA Times has some good tips:

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* Compression sports bras: best for small cup sizes who prefer low-impact activities (the paper says "like swimming," which confuses me because I don't know anyone who wears a sports bra to swim? But I think we get the point).
Good example: the Nike Swift U-Back

* Compression/encapsulation bras: With semi-molded cups, these are better for women with B or C cups who need more support than a regular compression bra can give; they're good for all levels of exercise.
Good example: the Lole Women Intense

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* Encapsulation bras: If you have a larger chest and do mostly medium- to high-impact