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Percentage of adults in most counties of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee who get no exercise during their free time — the most inactive states in the country. Areas where residents are most likely to be physically active in their leisure time are the West Coast, Hawaii, Colorado, Minnesota and parts of the Northeast. [via CDC]
A new study finds that despite equal levels of chemicals in their homes, nonwhite toddlers had more exposure to flame retardant toxins than their white peers.
The former Playmate is posing nude again for Playboy. Will McCarthy’s fee bolster the cause of Generation Rescue, her autism research organization that rejects vaccines as dangerous?
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
