| WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Her daughters were 6 and 9, and Michelle Obama was like any other working mom -- struggling to juggle office hours, school pick-ups and mealtimes. By the end of the day, she was often too tired to make dinner, so she did what was easy: She ordered takeout or went to the drive-through.
BEIJING (AP) -- China has found another 170 tons of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear many products discovered in the country's 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she's a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.
BEIJING (AP) -- Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Calling obesity an epidemic and one of the greatest threats to America's health and economy, first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday that she would launch a major initiative next month to combat the problem in childhood.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Talk about spicing things up! Move over, trans fats; salt is under fire as the next nutrition no-no on its way out from restaurant menus and processed foods.
ALBANY, N.Y. (The New York Times News Service) -- People join online communities to help support them through all kinds of life changes, from getting married to moving, from having children to changing jobs. Why wouldn't they join an online support group to help them meet their weight-loss goals?
(The New York Times News Service) -- As recently as a decade ago vitamin D was mostly thought of as a helper-nutrient -- it allowed the body to absorb and use calcium for strong bones. With a diet of fortified foods and a little bit of sunshine every day, most people got plenty of it.
NEW YORK (AP) -- City health officials have battled trans fats and high-calorie fast food. Now, they're taking on salt.
(Associated Press) -- Dieters can't believe everything they read: The food at many popular chain restaurants and in the freezer section of the supermarket may contain a lot more calories than advertised.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Eating healthy starts with the right ingredients -- plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes.
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities kept food safety concerns about a Shanghai dairy a secret for nearly a year before announcing last week that the company had been shut for producing tainted milk, an official said Thursday.
SEATTLE (USA TODAY) -- Woe to the waiter who gets Aaron and Kendra Johnson at his table. When the two place an order, questions fly as if it's an episode of Law & Order.
FRANKENSTEIN, Mo. (AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The swine flu effect has spread from China to Israel. A study by "Globes" found that the wholesale price of garlic has risen 40-50 percent compared with a year ago. Most of the rise has been in the past few months, due to higher garlic prices in China.
(USA TODAY) -- Soy foods may be safe, and possibly even beneficial, for breast cancer survivors, a new study says.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Surprises are great when it comes to holiday gifts. Not so much when we're talking about hidden calories that can add bulk to our waistlines.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health regulators have warned Tyson Foods about unsanitary conditions at a Texas plant that makes seafood soups.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Whether you are making Thanksgiving dinner for the first time or the 40th, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all the shopping, chopping and roasting.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- First Lady Michelle Obama received a few gardening tips from students Wednesday as she toured a Virginia elementary school's vegetable garden.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Thanksgiving is a challenge for anyone trying to help a family stay healthy. Shelly Wilfong of Dallas is particularly aware of that this year. "My father is recuperating from his second bypass surgery," says Wilfong, 37, a wife and mother of two.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is challenging makers of alcohol-infused energy drinks to prove their beverages are safe, citing complaints that the products can cause risky behavior and injury.
ROME (AP) -- Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don't get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke.
WASHINGTON (USA Today) -- Many people say they eat more when they are under stress. Others eat less.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
DENVER (The New York Times News Service) -- It seemed to Margie McCandless that she was destined to have diabetes.
CHICAGO (AP) -- At least one in five U.S. children aged 1 to 11 don't get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like the fizz of a soft drink? Thank your tongue's sour-sensing taste buds.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice -- water or low-fat milk only. This is the new menu at a Delaware day care center, part of a fledgling movement to take the fight against obesity to pudgy preschoolers.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- Running a marathon, grab a carbohydrate bar. Lifting weights, gulp a protein shake. But climbing into a fighter jet? Try butter-soaked lobster.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government report finds that fewer U.S. high schools and middle schools are selling candy and salty snacks to students.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Treating even mild diabetes that develops during pregnancy helps keep moms and babies from gaining too much weight and makes for easier deliveries, new research shows. Pregnant women in the U.S. are routinely tested and treated for high blood sugar levels, although it hasn't been clear whether treating the mildest cases really benefited them and their infants.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Beginning today, participants in the Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program will be able to use food vouchers to buy fruits, veggies, whole grains and breads, and proteins such as canned beans.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Less than 10 percent of U.S. high school students are eating the combined recommended daily amount of fruits and vegetables, a finding that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called "poor" in a report Tuesday.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Weight control research shows that the best way to distribute calories throughout the day is to eat three meals and a snack or two depending on your schedule and the size of the meals and snacks, of course.
LOS ANGELES (The New York Times News Service) -- A first-of-its-kind study released today definitively links soda consumption and an obesity epidemic, which costs California taxpayers an estimated $41 billion annually.
DALLAS (AP) -- A spoonful of sugar? Americans are swallowing 22 teaspoons of sugar each day, and it's time to cut way back, the American Heart Association says.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- From heart-friendly margarines to sugary cereals that strengthen bones, once-demonized foods are being spiked with nutrients to give them a healthier glow -- and consumers are biting, even on some that are little more than dressed-up junk food.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Obesity is the elephant in the room of health care reform, a public health catastrophe that kills well over 100,000 Americans a year.
WASHINGTON -- As Congress debated health care legislation last month, a new ad campaign was saturating the Washington media market. It featured two happy campers, a slim, white, adult couple on a budget holiday sipping small cans of soda, and objecting to "taxes on simple pleasures."
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Want your children to eat less?
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Michael Gross placed a bunch of ripe bananas in 10-year-old Amani Bass's left hand.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Missouri researchers have launched a new effort in their fight against worldwide hunger: bringing together a doctor who has long treated the malnourished with plant scientists working to improve the nutritional content of food.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- A California grower is recalling one lot of romaine lettuce over fears it may be contaminated with salmonella. Roughly 22,000 pounds of the bulk or wrapped romaine were sold in 29 states under the lot code 531380.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Has the recession cut heart-healthy seafood and leafy greens out of your budget? Are you squeezing boxed meals or fast food between two jobs?
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The secret to a long, disease-free life may be as simple as pushing yourself away from the dinner table before eating too much . . . at least if you're a monkey.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eat less, live longer? It seems to work for monkeys: A 20-year study found cutting calories by almost a third slowed their aging and fended off death.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New safety standards aimed at reducing salmonella and E. coli outbreaks are part of a government effort to try to make food safer to eat.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- If you're trying to eat better but are confounded by the healthy logos, symbols and claims food manufacturers put on packaging, help may be on the way. Or, you may be more baffled than ever.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- An order of onion rings at Carl's Jr. has always had 530 calories. The difference on Wednesday was that customer Jessica Coe was legally entitled to that information -- and she ordered the onion rings anyway.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drinking during pregnancy can seriously harm a baby's brain, yet thousands of mothers-to-be still do. Now scientists have begun testing whether a prenatal nutrient might offer those babies a little protection, part of a growing quest for ways to reverse the damage.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal authorities are investigating a new national outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, this time related to a sweet treat treasured by the heartbroken and children-at-heart -- packaged raw cookie dough.
(Associated Press) -- Two of the most popular and promising dietary supplements -- vitamin D and fish oil -- will be tested in a large, government-sponsored study to see whether either nutrient can lower a healthy person's risk of getting cancer, heart disease or having a stroke.
NEW YORK (Canadian Press) -- Leslie Fuller tried to stick to her shopping list on a recent grocery run. Instead, she found herself venturing down the candy aisle, throwing bags of Hershey's Miniatures and M&M's into her cart.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- When he takes the helm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, Dr. Thomas Frieden will bring a solid record of success -- and controversy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Baby-protecting folic acid is getting renewed attention: Not only does it fight spina bifida and some related abnormalities, new research shows it also may prevent premature birth and heart defects.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday -- one they hope to fix.
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