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Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical

| Associated Press
Michelle Obama.JPEG

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

| Nicole Lafond
David Hasselhoff spoofing a drunken episode in a Comedy Central commercial.

Data suggested more calories, less healthy food, when imbibing

Study: Even ancient mummies had clogged arteries

| Associated Press
Egypt Mummies Heart Disease

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

| Josh Peterson
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The information would be communicated to users through a health score

Is your diet soda making you want to cry? - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
Diet Coke

Researchers think there may be a link between your Diet Cokes and depression

Regulations, not criminal prohibition, best address concerns regarding cannabis

| Paul Armentano

Legalizing marijuana is in everyone’s best interests.

The food nannies strike again

| Bob Barr

The nanny staters want to put graphic warning labels on the packaging of unhealthy foods.

Get ready for 'Love Your Body Day' - TheDC

| Caroline May
People Jennifer Hudson

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

| Patrick Chisholm

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

| interns

Tissue intended for artificial meat, as well as restorative surgery

The CIA's costly vaccination program

| Jeff Stier

The CIA’s use of a fake vaccine program to help find Osama bin Laden is fanning suspicions about real vaccine programs.

Back off. It's my plate.

| Walter Olson

Reflections on the government’s nannyish new nutritional chart.

Ronald McDonald may be outdated - AP

| interns
Ronald McDonald

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

| interns
Child

Given past issue with dosage amounts for children, the FDA is discussing new instructions

Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - AP

| Paul Conner (admin)
Nesquik

L.A. schools superintendent is latest official to rain on kids’ parade

Botox affects how you interpret emotions, study finds - USA Today

| interns

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

| interns

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

| Madeleine Joelson

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

| admin

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

| interns

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