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Gwendolyn Williams is a health conscious 9-year-old who says she eats well and is active. So she was shocked when she saw that the Department of Education sized her up as being overweight. “I thought it was unfair. I know I’m not overweight,” said the third grader at P.S. 29 in Staten Island.

A new research shows that people who cannot taste fat in food have more chances of becoming obese due to overeating. Researchers at the Deakin University, Australia, found that people who are unable to detect or taste the fat in foods eat significantly more during lunch after a heavy breakfast than those who can taste fat.

For many Europeans, summer holidays revolve around bathing water — whether it is snorkelling in turquoise seas, swimming in a lake or surfing. So it is natural that people have a keen interest in the quality of the bathing waters at this time of year. The report assesses bathing water quality in 2013 in all EU Member States plus Albania …

In an inspiring story, a formerly obese teenager transformed herself and became a beauty pageant queen. She told how cruel taunts from bullies inspired her to get fit. Kryfko struggled with her weight in middle school. “I was over 200 pounds,” she recalled. But, at just 14 years old, she made an adult decision to change her life forever. “I …

The rate of obesity continues to climb across the world’s most developed countries, with certain nations and groups of people such as women and the poor hit harder by the recent economic crisis, the OECD said on Tuesday. While rates are rising as much as 3 percent a year in countries such as Australia, France, Mexico and Switzerland, they have …

The Nigerian military claims to know the whereabouts of more than 200 girls abducted by Islamist extremists but says a rescue attempt could endanger the lives of the captives. Badeh assured journalists and relatives of the abducted teens that the rescue operations were ongoing, later adding, “we are working. We will get the girls back.”

For many, a diet soda seems like a healthy choice. But over the past few years, studies have indicated swapping out a sugar-laden regular cola for a diet cola may not be that good for you after all. In response to this research critical of their member companies, a brand new project funded by the American Beverage Association suggests once …

Australian conjoined twins Hope and Faith, who shared a body and skull but had separate brains and identical faces, have died almost three weeks after they were born in Sydney, medical officials said today. The girls, who were born six weeks early by emergency caesarean, were with their parents — Renee Young and Simon Howie — when they passed away, …

A 19-year-old man from Ottawa has been identified as one of the victims of Friday’s mass murder at the University of California at Santa Barbara. George Chen, who was studying computer science, was a graduate from Leland High School in San Jose, Calif., and one of six people killed.

Extra wide and long women’s parking spaces that are helpfully drawn in pink lines with a female symbol to guide you are the latest thing in South Korea. Thousands of the spaces, which are better-lit and closer to lifts and escalators, are being put in in Seoul.

Former “Sonny with a Chance” star Tiffany Thornton has been accused of abducting her own children, according to E! News. Chris Carney, Thornton’s husband, recently filed a report with the LAPD claiming that his wife kidnapped their two young sons, 20-month-old Kenneth and 3-month-old Bentley. Carney is reportedly convinced that Thornton moved the children out of California to Texas without …