If I call you fat, is it kind or cruel? A plain-speaking government health minister says describing the overweight as "obese" isn't direct enough to make them lose weight. According to Anne Milton, if a doctor uses the F-word, we're more likely to realise it's our responsibility to shed surplus poundage. She's expressing a personal view and not government policy, but this no-nonsense approach ...
Read more...Local schools won't all back new policy saying kids can go to school with head lice.
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Read more...WILLIE Mason drops the dirt on his former Bulldogs teammates in an exclusive interview.
Read more...I want to share some of my favorite memories with my kids and grandkids because we had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our...
Read more...This summer's press tour journal starts with CBS, where "stability is a good thing," this understatement coming courtesy of entertainment pres Nina Tassler, kicking off the network portion of the Television Critics Association gathering on Tuesday. (As opposed to the disarray over at ABC, whose turn comes Sunday, after having been rocked this week by the sudden ouster of its programming boss ...
Read more...Adults who have been overweight since high school risk a lifetime of disease, discrimination and poverty. A new study of obese 40-year-olds found those who were overweight teens were three times more likely to suffer chronic health problems such as heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. They were also much more likely to be unemployed or receiving welfare.
Read more...When First Lady Michelle Obama issued the invitation, hundreds of chefs from around the country, including Litchfield Countys Anne Gallagher, took her up on it earlier this monthto join her in a special campaign that impacts American society at a most basic and vital level: ensuring childrens health through good nutrition.
Read more...Jake Brems is a rising junior defenseman on the Notre Dame men's lacrosse team and a Science - Business major from Kensington, Maryland who is spending his summer working on a joint internship with the Center of Concern in Washington D.C. and Fields of Growth International. He is travelling, serving and working at a community development and athletic ministry initiative started by Notre Dame men ...
Read more...A Q&A with Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade on his decade-long investigation into college admissions practices at eight elite schools
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