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Spanish researchers found that people who ate the most fast food were 51% more likely to develop depression — bad for the waistline, and the blues too.
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Spanish researchers found that people who ate the most fast food were 51% more likely to develop depression — bad for the waistline, and the blues too.

The CDC put autism at 1 in 88 children in 2012. Behind the numbers — and the deficits they describe — are minds with their own distinct strengths.

Forensic artist Richard Neave reconstructed Jesus with dark skin, dark eyes, and short curly hair — nothing like the fair-skinned figure in Western art.

Sham marriages between siblings and paid foreign partners were a known immigration-fraud route. The mechanics, the detection — and the desperation behind them.

By 2012 the iPhone 4S's 8-megapixel camera was eating the point-and-shoot alive. The honest answer: it depends on what you shoot.

At a New York panel on young brains and video games, experts weighed the iPad's place in childhood: a powerful shelf of toys — or an electronic babysitter?

NBC's The Biggest Loser split its season-13 makeover week across two episodes — April 3 and April 10 — ending with a White House workout alongside Michelle

Fashion keeps sorting women's bodies into fruit and vegetable shapes — pear, apple, carrot, eggplant. The taxonomy says more about marketing than about bodies.

Kindness isn't just a trait kids are born with — research suggests it's a teachable skill, and age three is exactly the right time to start.

A grade-5 story by Shlok Sharma of Naperville: Joe's mom is disappointed in his writing scores and buys him a diary. What happens when he starts his journal?

Lululemon's retail playbook included a deliberate tactic: employees stationed near fitting rooms to eavesdrop on shoppers — customer research without the

Guest review of Khushwant Singh's 1956 Partition classic: Mano Majra, the doomed love of Juggut Singh and Nooran, and why this slim novel still haunts.

Dr. Ken Murray’s viral 2011 essay observed that doctors facing death often choose comfort care over aggressive treatment.

Photos of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife from a Zimbabwe hunt ignited a 2012 backlash — and a trophy-hunting debate that

One DMV clerk, one refused donor box, and the real arithmetic of giving: a single donor’s organs reach several people on the waiting list.

A prenup with a weight-gain penalty clause made headlines in 2012. Why body-policing contracts are legally shaky — and what they do to a marriage.

What celebrity fitness really involves: hours in the gym, personal trainers, yoga, and strict diets. The honest truth behind the perfect bodies on screen.

Friday cooking column Vol 5: a slow rajma in tomato-onion gravy, jeera rice, and cucumber raita — the weeknight reward meal.

Two body-positivity advocates — Molly Barker and Caitlin Boyle — ditched makeup, blow-drys, and shaving for 60 days. What the experiment revealed about

Hungry at midnight? Here's how to snack late without wrecking your sleep — warm milk, fruit, handfuls of nuts, and what Ayurveda says about night eating.