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There's nothing like having a home cooked meal from grandma during the holidays. Even if it's not from your own grandma.

For many people, the holiday season -- Festivus! -- begins on Thanksgiving Eve.

For many people, the holiday season -- Festivus! -- begins on Thanksgiving Eve.

Television ads for unhealthy snacks are successful in encouraging children as young as preschool-age to overeat even when they're not hungry, a study suggests.

When the guests around your Thanksgiving table are busy stuffing their bellies today, here's one way to break the lull in conversation: dazzle them with some tasty turkey trivia.

A British girl seen by thousands in a heartbreaking photograph that her father said showed "the darkness that is childhood cancer" has died, he announced in a Facebook post. Jessica Whelan, of Clayton-le-Moors, England, was 4.

If you like burgers, hot dogs and crispy chicken, you're in luck if you take a trip to Burger King. But if you are the least bit nutrition-conscious, it's slim pickings when it comes to deciding what to eat at the popular fast food chain.

A new study finds that the prevalence of dementia has fallen sharply in recent years, most likely as a result of Americans' rising educational levels and better heart health, which are both closely related to brain health.

More than a quarter of American children are not getting the health care they need, according to a new report from the nonprofit Children's Health Fund (PDF).

It's human nature for consumers to develop habits and seek out foods that satisfy our cravings. And companies use a food's "bliss point" to give us what we want.

Deep in the recesses of most people's refrigerators lives a half-eaten bottle of salsa, some takeout Chinese food and last week's chicken dinner. Pulling one of those things out, you wonder: Can I eat it? Is it safe? A lot of commercially prepared items, such as sauces and condiments, have best-buy dates on the packaging to ensure flavor, not safety, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

As you prepare your traditional Thanksgiving feast, you may want to swap out those pilgrim salt-and-pepper shakers with a mastodon and a caveman instead. We owe a lot to this ancient duo. Without them your mom couldn't bake your favorite pumpkin pie. Gone would be your sister-in-law Celia's delicious squash casserole. And your Pinterest-ready cornucopia would be dreary.

Despite the myriad joys the season brings, it can be a stressful time for many of us. Between shopping, cooking, travel, parties, house guests, winter storms and shorter days, the holidays pile on the stress with little regard for the continued demands of our everyday lives. Instead of feeling festive, we're often left tense, irritable and exhausted.

Most people have experienced that unfortunate feeling in their gut making them run in search of the nearest bathroom.

For Zach Anner, humor was the key to dealing with his cerebral palsy when he was growing up.

Toy injuries resulted in 185,000 visits to the emergency room and 11 deaths among children under the age of 15 in 2015, according to a report (PDF) released Thursday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The Zika virus outbreak and related clusters of microcephaly are no longer a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Calling it "a fraud," "horrible" and "a disaster," President-elect Donald Trump said that rolling back Obamacare and replacing it with a "much less expensive" alternative is top priority for his administration.

A British teenager who died of cancer has been cryogenically frozen in the United States after winning a court case before her death.