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DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/Getty Images/DeAgostini The Prophet Daniel, shown here in a 15th century panel, is the inspiration for a number of diet plans. Looking to slim down in the new year? Perhaps it’s time you tried the “God diet.” Christians looking to strengthen their relationship with God and adopt a healthier lifestyle are seeking out diets and fasts inspired by ...

MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS Three Newsers attempted Friday to sign up for health insurance through the Internet, the phone and a ‘navigator.’ While the first two options worked fine, finding a navigator on Black Friday was impossible. Three Daily News staffers tried Friday to sign up for insurance through the phone, the Internet and a “navigator.” The results were far better than ...

Stocktrek/Getty Images Sarah Hershberger, 11, (not shown) has battled cancer since April. Her family says natural treatments have proven to work. An 11-year-old Amish girl is in hiding after an Ohio court ruled the girl must listen to medical professionals and continue chemotherapy – treatments her parents don’t want because they make her sick. Sarah Hershberger’s parents would rather pursue ...

Discovery Sarah Atwell is a normal 17-year-old girl — except she has neurofibromatosis, a debilitating uncurable condition that causes tumors to grow on her face. The story of a teenager from Canada who endured cruel teasing due to her disfigurement is about to be revealed. Sarah Atwell, a 17-year-old from Nova Scotia, has suffered from neurofibromatosis since she was eight ...

HAP/Quirky China News/Rex/REX USA Ho Zhiliang was born with a rare heart condition and he hopes doctors in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, will operate on him to move the organ into his rib cage. A Chinese man is hoping doctors will put his heart in the right place. Ho Zhiliang, 24, was born with what is being called congenital cardiac ...

The Thanksgiving menu for the Foley family features turkey and tears — of joy. Jack Foley, a redheaded tyke born with just half a heart, will celebrate with the clan mere weeks after his third reconstructive heart surgery at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. “When our family sits down to Thanksgiving dinner and says grace and what we ...

Philippe Bigard/Getty Images/OJO Images RF A complex regulatory circuit created from different genes and implanted in fat mice caused them to lose weight, and researchers say something similar could help severely overweight people slim down without surgery. Could a new implant turn the tide of global obesity? Scientists at ETH-Zurich have created a complex circuit of human genes that can ...

Caters News Agency Norway-born Suzanne Svanevik, 17, has a dedicated workout that has turned her into an impressively fit and poweful teen. This incredible girl is only five foot tall and less than eight stone – but she’s stronger than many professional athletes. Suzanne Svanevik, from Bergen, Norway is a pin-up for all girls who’d rather be strong than skinny. ...

savelockys dadnick/via YouTube Nick Auden, the 41-year-old Denver man who campaigned for access to experimental cancer drugs outside of clinical trials, has died of melanoma, his family announced. A Colorado father of three with cancer who campaigned for access to the experimental drugs he hoped would cure him has died, his family announced. Nick Auden, 41, passed away last Friday ...

FOX News Chandler Webb, 19, went into a coma and neurologists couldn’t find the cause of his illness. A month later, the healthy teen was dead. A doomed man pleaded with his doctors to save him as he slipped into a coma last month — a coma he never woke up from. Now Lori Webb says the death of her ...