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Your Overweight Kid May Need More Involved Parents

What you can do: Replace talk about weight loss and dieting with healthy food choices, opportunities for exercise, and plenty of emotional support.

New Research: Cordless and Cell Phones Raise Kids’ Cancer Risk

What you can do: Let school-age kids use cell phones only for emergency calls. Teens and young adults under 20 should favor texting over talking. And go retro: Lose the cordless phone, bring back the corded kind.

Cosmetics Chemicals Found in Girls' Bodies

What you can do: Shop for cosmetics with natural ingredients, and stay away from anything that lists “fragrance” or “parfum” as an ingredient.

Room Fans Could Protect Babies from SIDS

What you can do: Run a fan in your sleeping baby’s room, and remember, babies should sleep on their backs.

Study Implies Autism-Rain Connection

What you can do: Don’t get worked up over this study—instead, take sensible precautions that protect your children’s health.

Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Could Result in Measles Epidemic In Britain, US

What you can do: Protect your child with an MMR vaccine; space out vaccinations if you worry about side effects.

Parents of ADHD-Diagnosed Child Twice as Likely to Divorce

What you can do: If you have a child diagnosed with ADHD, you and your spouse need to learn how to cope with the condition, too.

Picky Eaters are Made, Not Born

What you can do: Forego rice cereal, move straight from breast milk or formula to fruits and veggies to maximize both nutrition and the likelihood that your child will like them later.

Your Kid’s Shoes Are Probably Too Small

What you can do: Focus on the shoe’s fit, not the size marked on the inside.

Every Class Should be Gym Class

What you can do: Create an environment that encourages physical activity both in and out of school. And recruit your kid’s principal to help you.