Father Says Starved Kids Seemed Healthy
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The father of three children whose mother is accused of starving them to death said Wednesday they were in good health when he saw them just weeks before their bodies were found in an apartment with no heat or lights.
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For eight months during his infancy, Sean Van Duyn gagged, retched and vomited daily. Now 6, the Winter Haven, Fla., boy still can't eat or drink by mouth, instead being fed by a permanent tube in his belly.
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Many parents struggle to know which foods are healthy for their children, a survey shows.
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NEW YORK  - Even young children can paint a  picture of their health and well-being, though it doesn't  always match parents' perceptions, research shows.
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Among teens in one Los Angles public school, 60 percent reported dieting at some point in their lives -- primarily before the age of 14 -- and many said they skipped meals or vomited to control their weight.
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Mothers cradle children in their arms. Fathers smile softly at the helpless bodies they hold. Other parents are bent over from the weight of their teenage kids whose legs fall limp, almost touching the ground. In the absence of basic medical equipment, these parents do this every day.
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Better nutrition not only helps small boys grow up taller and stronger but can boost earning power, a long-term study in Guatemala showed on Friday, with the researchers saying childhood feeding would help reduce poverty.
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Children who have a poor diet are more likely to become aggressive and anti-social, US researchers believe.
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About two years before the heart attack that killed him, I told Dad that if he didn't clean up his act, he'd be dead in five years. Quit the smoking, get some exercise, stop nailing himself to the cross of his job. We were sitting at the kitchen table, he and Mom and I. Dad had already had one heart...
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A new study offers good news for parents who have trouble remembering to treat their children every day for what&#39;s known as &quot;lazy eye.
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A new study finds that children who were breast-fed fared better in difficult situations than those were bottle-fed
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The father of a desperately ill baby said Friday that he believed in miracles as he pleaded with a High Court judge to give his daughter the chance to live.
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President Bush's doctors pronounced him healthy and in better shape than most men his age Tuesday, but the president himself seemed a little upset about packing on some extra pounds.
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School districts across the country have been taking steps to make food in schools healthier, but some parents say they are are taking it too far.
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Anne Grintjes can't even look at produce now without cringing. "I went through a grocery store the other day and I just flinched when I looked at all the greens," said Grintjes, whose 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter fell ill during a multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted spinach. "It's hard not to, after watching your little boy struggling for his life in a hospital bed."
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Having a nutrition coach  actively coach families on how to make healthy changes in their  diet appears to help parents and their children improve their  nutritional intake, researchers found.
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Men without children have a  lower risk of prostate cancer compared with fathers, but those  who father a brood of kids appear to have a relatively low risk  also, the results of a large study suggest.