Female: The Gavrilos boys are very active and need all the calcium they can get in order to build and maintain strong bones. Their sisters are still pretty young, but theyre also busy little girls. Being physically active and getting enough calcium will be essential for these children throughout their lives, but its most important in the developing years when their bones are growing fastest. Why? ...read more

Blackburn: We have here wonderful contributions from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services. We have something called My Pyramid. And I think almost everybody has seen these pyramid symbols. And on the My Pyramid Web site you can find ways to analyze the food and build your own pyramid. Now obviously we want to ...read more

Most commonly it is. There are other triggers. There are emotional triggers. You can induce people who get panic attacks, people who get anxious, can induce wheezing and breathing difficulties, that connection, that neurological connection in asthma is very strong.There are also exercise-induced forms of asthma and here you would, you would start exercising, actually people start to get a little b...read more

Louis Yuhasz: Im Louis Yohasz, Im the Executive Director of LouiesKids.org.What causes Childhood obesity?Louis Yuhasz: Anyone of us who picks up a newspaper or watches the news and understand that the causes of childhood obesity are pretty self explanatory almost. Its a sedentary lifestyle and were putting in more than were putting out. Were actually— were not working out in off for we are not mo...read more

Women can go back to work after knee replacement surgery usually six to eight weeks or so after surgery depending on how they are doing with their therapy, how they are feeling, and depending on what kind of work they are returning to. Obviously, its going to be easier to go back to a desk job which isnt a lot of stress on your knees I supposed to if you were going back to say being a nurse and be...read more

Amber: Hi, I'm Amber from Chicago, Illinois and my question is can stress be contagious?Bruce Rabin: Amber, many people ask that question, because what happens when somebody says, I have some stress somebody is going to try and top them and they will say, well I've got more stress then you do and then somebody is going to say well, I've got more stress than that. It is almost like a competition. N...read more

Jennifer Matthews: Darlene VanHoose loves her pizza. But it doesn't love her. Darlene VanHoose: I would have coughing spasms because of the acid coming up into my throat. Just a general miserable feeling. Jennifer Matthews: Dan Lamar knows her pain! Dan Lamar: I couldn't breathe. I literally was having shortness of breath. My vocal chords were so inflamed that they were constricting my airways. Je...read more