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Eleven of the nation's biggest food and drink companies will adopt new rules to limit advertising to children under the age of 12, a move that restricts ads for products such as McDonald's Happy Meals and the use of popular cartoon characters.
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11 Food, Drink Firms Restrict Child Ads |
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Adults living with children tend to eat more fat than grown-ups in kid-free homes, consuming as much saturated fat each week as found in an individual-size pizza, a new study suggests.
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Adults home with children could be eating worse |
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More parents are beginning to buckle up their young children in car booster seats, the government reported Friday.
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Booster seat usage on the rise. |
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Fewer than a third of American adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends, a trend that's remained steady for more than a decade, health officials said Thursday.
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CDC: Too Few Eating Fruits, Vegetables |
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Middle school children who have a television or computer in their room sleep less during the school year, watch more TV, play more computer games and surf the net more than their peers who don't.
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Children with TV in their room sleep less |
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More than 1,500 toddlers and babies wound up in emergency rooms over a two-year period and three died because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine, federal health officials reported Thursday.
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Cold medicine is risky for children |
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will launch a major school-based initiative this month in support of the Disney Fairies book publishing program, which launched in 2005 with the release of Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg by Newbery Honor winner Gail Carson Levine.
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Disney launches Disney Fairies National Milk Campaign |
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The Early Intervention Network has launched an online public service announcement campaign that allows Internet users worldwide to play a role in raising awareness of autism's earliest warning signs during national Autism Awareness month in April.
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First-Ever Internet Autism PSA Aims to Unite Online Users |
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Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys - including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters - because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.
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Fisher Price recalls 1,000,000 toys |
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Millions of children eat in school cafeterias that don't get the twice-yearly health inspections required by Congress to help prevent food poisoning.
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Food cafeterias go without inspections. |
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