The report calls on the Education Department to recommend that PE be adopted as a core subject.
New study reveals that people do, in fact, like drunk munchies
Data suggested more calories, less healthy food, when imbibing
Study: Even ancient mummies had clogged arteries
Heart disease may be more a natural part of human aging rather than being directly tied to contemporary risk factors like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising.
Yelp to let you know whether you should or should not eat the chicken - TheDC
The information would be communicated to users through a health score
Is your diet soda making you want to cry? - TheDC
Researchers think there may be a link between your Diet Cokes and depression
Regulations, not criminal prohibition, best address concerns regarding cannabis
Legalizing marijuana is in everyone’s best interests.
The food nannies strike again
The nanny staters want to put graphic warning labels on the packaging of unhealthy foods.
Get ready for 'Love Your Body Day' - TheDC
Day is aimed at making women feel special, and pushing back against media expectations of how women should look
Want better health? Go to church
People who regularly attend religious services live an average of seven years longer than people who don’t.
Lab-grown muscle now firm and strong, scientists report - Popsci.com
Tissue intended for artificial meat, as well as restorative surgery
The CIA's costly vaccination program
The CIA’s use of a fake vaccine program to help find Osama bin Laden is fanning suspicions about real vaccine programs.
Ronald McDonald may be outdated - AP
With McDonald’s changing mission and children’s changing interests, some say that Ronald needs to change too
New dosing discussed for children's medicine - LAT
Given past issue with dosage amounts for children, the FDA is discussing new instructions
Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - AP
L.A. schools superintendent is latest official to rain on kids’ parade
Botox affects how you interpret emotions, study finds - USA Today
According to a study published in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science, Botox may blunt users’ perception of other people’s emotions
Leading scientist claims sugar is 'poison' - NYT
Expert on childhood obesity Robert Lustig’s ‘bitter truth’ about sugar is that it is toxic, and, like cigarettes and alcohol, should be considered a killer
Survey: Doctors don't take their own advice - TheDC
Survey finds that doctors are more likely to recommend different treatments when they imagine themselves as the patient
D.C. mayor arrested protesting budget restrictions - AP
Washington, D.C.’s Mayor Vincent Gray hit the streets with others to protest restrictions imposed on the city by the federal budget deal, blocking traffic that ended in arrests
Vermont moves toward nation's first single-payer health system - Boston Globe
While a single-payer plan was quickly dropped during debates over national health care reform, Vermont may become the first state to implement such a policy
