What is the measure of a country's health? How do you take the temperature of a population that sprawls across nine time zones, 50 states and a global rainbow of cultures and communities? One way is by taking a close look at yourself. If you're like ...
Read more...I wrote a story this week about a disturbing study in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine—children in the U.S. get recommended health-care procedures only 46% of the time when they see a doctor. We’re talking middle- and upper ...
Read more...Shocking statistics show if we carry on getting fatter at the current rate, by 2050 NINETY PER CENT of adults will be obese or overweight. That appalling prediction means that nine out of ten of today’s children are at risk from early death due to ...
Read more...Las Vegas, Nevada, October 18, 2008. Las Vegas in the credit crunch. To watch the CNN headlines — all red, plummeting arrows and thundering reports on the “culprits of the collapse” — you’d think the population of the town that defines ...
Read more...Each week, dozens of songs and albums from up-and-coming (or just plain unknown) bands debut on the world's music charts. Some of these bands will never be heard from again; some may become the next little thing. That's why we have Chuck Eddy ...
Read more...ABC News' Kate Snow and Imtiyaz Delawala Report: They may be behind in the polls, but vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin predicts a race that will come down to the wire. Speaking in the hot sun at the Richmond International Raceway, Palin ...
Read more...2. It has got to be the tongue piercing, when you are looking for a job, hired by my generation. I tant undtand a tang your thaying -- Gary Cuff. 3. I'd like to see the following cease: Spandex on overweight women, ganny Pouches worn on the rotund ...
Read more...The New Year is upon us, and at PETA, we're encouraging people to, for their new year's resolution, give a healthy vegetarian diet a try. Just last month, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta celebrated that the average cholesterol level in ...
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