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Jennifer LaRue Huget explains how best to incorporate the new dietary guidelines on seafood into your diet.

How much fish and seafood should you eat each week? What are some good recipes?

U.S. cases in those under 20 have grown from almost zero to tens of thousands in just over a decade.

Should they intervene early and practice a form of benign neglect, hoping that the baby fat will melt away as a child grows?

Surgeon general says obesity crisis should be addressed together.

Could Drums Alive be the next Zumba? Vicky Hallett explores Baltimore's latest exercise craze.

After President Obama signed the nation's health-care overhaul into law, Wisconsin made more headway than virtually anywhere else in the country at preparing to carry the statute out. Then a Republican governor came to power and changed all that.

Get in the spirit with these top five green vegetables.

The psychological impact of Japanese nuclear crisis could turn out to be significant

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Among other things, radiation from nuclear power plants could increase cancer rates for decades.

Is ranch dressing the best way to get kids to eat their vegetables?

Washington Hospital Center spent about $6 million to hire 600 temporary nurses, beef up security and cover other costs during last week's nurses' strike and subsequent lockout at the region's largest hospital, hospital officials said.