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Junk Food Nation: How Parents Are Ruining Kids’ Health

Health experts say diets of children in the United States have deteriorated dramatically over the past two generations, leading to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diabetes, both of ...
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‘Good Fat’ Is More Active in Leaner Kids, Study Finds

A type of “good” fat, called brown fat, is more active in leaner children, a new study suggests. Children in the study with the highest body mass indices ...
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TV Harms Kids’ Health More than Computer Time

For kids, watching TV appears to be more harmful to their health than sitting at a computer, a new study finds. Kids who watched four or more hours ...
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Exercise Can’t Undo the Damage of Too Much Screen Time

Spending more than four hours a day sitting in front of a television or computer more than doubles your risk of dying from or being hospitalized for heart ...
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Decline in Altruism Could Worsen Organ Shortage

Recent advances have given organ donors easier surgeries and faster recovery times, but the advances have not tackled one primary issue in organ donation: the limited supply of ...
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Not in the Bag: Doubt Cast on Green Tea as Breast Cancer Shield

Drinking green tea may not protect against breast cancer after all, a new study suggests. Middle-age and older women who drank 10 or more cups of green tea ...
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CT Scans of Heavy Smokers Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths

Researchers have confirmed that screening heavy smokers through the use of computer tomography (CT) can detect early signs of lung cancer and reduces deaths by around 20 percent. ...
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3 Changes to Children’s Vaccine Recommendations Announced

The nation’s largest pediatrician group today released its new schedule of recommended childhood vaccinations. It made three major changes to its previous recommendations, after a federal advisory panel ...
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HPV Vaccine Sees Poor Completion Rates

Despite the treatment’s effectiveness in preventing cervical cancer, few young women who begin taking the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine complete the necessary three doses, according to a new ...
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1998 Study Linking Autism to Vaccines Was an ‘Elaborate Fraud’

A landmark study linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism was “an elaborate fraud,” according to a new article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). ...
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