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Low Vitamin D More Common in Overweight Kids By Rita RubinWebMD Health News Dec. 24, 2012 -- Overweight and obese children and teens are more likely to have low vitamin D levels than kids with healthy weights, a new study suggests. The study is published in Pediatrics.

Rates of Childhood Obesity Fall Slightly Dec. 25, 2012 -- New data suggest that we may have turned an important corner in the childhood obesity epidemic. While rates of obesity and extreme obesity in preschoolers rose from 1998 to 2003, they began to plateau soon thereafter. And childhood obesity rates decreased slightly in 2010.

Weight Loss Pill Qsymia 'Gaining Traction' Dec. 26, 2012 -- Sales of the prescription weight loss drug Qsymia, the first such drug to get the FDA's OK in 13 years, are increasing, despite earlier reports of sluggish interest. For the week ending Dec.

Research suggests which strategies really get children to behave and how to make timeouts work better.

Requests for money don't always involve your personal salary. People seeking to support a cause, charity, or educational institution are trained in making the "ask." Their entire training involves learning how to bring us to the brink of making a donation which they are able to secure with the right clincher.

Learn about the many different symptoms, triggers, and treatments for these severe headaches. Pictures show the visual problems (aura) and brain structures affected.

Blissing Out: 10 Relaxation Techniques To Reduce Stress On-the-Spot If your hectic lifestyle has got you down, experts say relaxation techniques can bring you back into balance -- some in five minutes or less.

We need calories to fuel our body's basic energy needs. Yet many of us find it difficult to take in the right amount-and the right kind-of fuel. No matter how many guidelines we're given, we still crave what we know is bad for us.

Self-compassion is, in essence, cutting yourself some slack. It's being willing to look at your mistakes or failures with kindness and understanding - without harsh criticism or defensiveness. Studies show that people who are self-compassionate are happier, more optimistic, and less anxious and depressed. That's probably not surprising.

Only more is not in fact better to the interviewer (or the client or buyer), because this is not how other people see what we're offering. They don't add up the impressiveness, they average it. They see the Big Picture-looking at the package as a whole, rather than focusing on the individual parts.

Decades of research on goal pursuit shows that when it comes to execution, there are two major pitfalls that keep us from doing the things we intend to do. The first is that we don't get specific enough about what exactly needs to happen - the specific actions we need to take to reach our goals.

6 Simple Steps to Keep Your Heart Healthy A healthy heart -- and a healthier you -- starts today with these quick tips from the experts. Keeping your heart healthy is so simple it can be put into catchy, two-word phrases: Eat right. Get exercise. Don't smoke.

1. Builds aerobic power. Your aerobic capacity is your body's ability to work at maximum capacity by getting oxygen from the air to your body's tissues. Ordinarily, people lose about 1 percent a year of their aerobic power or, if you'd like to do the math, 10 percent per decade.

Fructose May Effect Hunger Cues Jan. 2, 2013 -- All sugars are not created equal, at least when it comes to the brain, a new study shows. For the study, which is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers asked 20 healthy men and women to sip a cherry-flavored drink sweetened with either pure glucose or pure fructose.