Obesity And Overweight News
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The 10 Healthiest Places to Live in AmericaIf you're looking for a fresh start somewhere you can finally focus on your health, consider a move to Highlands Ranch, Colorado. The bedroom community outside Denver is the healthiest town in America, according to MONEY. As part of its annual "Best Places to Live" report (which this year focused
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Liz Weston: Your Money Secrets Are Killing You
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults admitted feeling stressed about money and 22 percent reported extreme stress in a 2015 study commissioned by the American Psychological Society
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Why Protecting Your Kids From Dirt May Not Make Them HealthierIn the new book "Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World," authors argue that allowing children to get dirty exposes them to healthy germs.
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Authors of ‘Let Them Eat Dirt’ Say Shielding Kids From Dirt May Not Make Them HealthierThe authors of the new book “Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World" say keeping children too clean shields them from certain microbes that are essential for a healthy immune system, so children should be allowed to get dirty when they play. The book's authors -- B. Brett
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Bill Clinton Calls Clinton Global Initiative 'One of the Great Honors of My Life' in Final SpeechFormer President Bill Clinton slowly walked toward the podium, newly repositioned at the center of the stage under the spotlight. He diligently thumbed through the pages of a farewell defense, which he had been working on moments before he addressed the Clinton Global Initiative one final time.
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Just How Much Sugar Do Americans Consume? It's Complicated
Sugar is the latest nutritional enemy, but saying how much of it Americans are consuming is complicated
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MDs Strengthen Advice Against Codeine for Kids' Coughs, Pain
The American Academy of Pediatrics has strengthened recommendations against using codeine for kids because of reports of deaths and risks for dangerous side effects including breathing problems
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Bloomberg's $300M Gift to Hopkins Focuses on Public Health
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving $300 million to Johns Hopkins University to deal with public health challenges
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Sugar Industry Paid for Medical Review in 1960s That Downplayed Link Between Sugar and Heart Disease, Report FindsPotential conflicts from industry-sponsored medical research have been an ongoing concern among public health officials, and a new report looks at how undisclosed funding could have had a major impact on medical findings and decades of research that followed. A report in the Journal of the American