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www.nationalpost.com
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Nova Scotia became the first Canadian province Thursday to ban smoking in vehicles with kids under the age of 19. The new legislation follows a similar, history-making law the Nova Scotia community of Wolfville passed in November.
The new law will come..
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CBS News
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Burger King pledged Wednesday to offer healthier fast-food items for American children under 12, with plans to sell and market flame-broiled Chicken Tenders and apples cut to resemble thick-cut french fries.
Burger King Holdings Inc., the world's secon..
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FOX News
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Doctors ought to quit using fuzzy terms to define children's weight problems and instead refer to truly fat kids as overweight or obese, a committee of medical experts recommended.
Less blunt terms used by the government and many doctors diplomatically..
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MSNBC
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Shade your kids. Strong new evidence suggests overall sun exposure in childhood, not just burns, is a big key to who later develops deadly skin cancer.
The news comes as the government is finishing long-awaited rules to improve sunscreens.
The Food..
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Alter Net
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An overweight teenager's year abroad is anything but an escape from the diet-obsessed social life she was hoping for.
Note: The following is an outtake scene from author Abby Ellin's debut book, Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat-Camper Weighs in on Livin..
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Salon
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A reader in her 30s wrote to Salon a few months ago, begging us to publish more stories like "No Baby On Board," an essay by Pagan Kennedy exploring her decision not to have children. The reader, herself struggling with the question of whether to procre..
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