Americans still fall short of the recommended daily portions of fruits and vegetables. And kids are notoriously averse to veggies at the school cafeteria.
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Nine out of 10 people ages 2 and older in the U.S. consume more than the recommended amount of sodium each day, a new report finds.
Read More »Video: Arsenic in rice?
CBS News medical contributor Dr. Holly Phillips talks to Chris Wragge and Rebecca Jarvis about a new study of pregnant women that found that even half a cup of rice a day had levels of arsenic over the recommended limit
Read More »A Quick Way To Get Arsenic Out Of Water: Plastic
Usually, we're trying to keep plastic out of water sources, but it turns out that a little bit of plastic can go a long way in making contaminated water safer to drink. Most of the time, we want to make sure plastic stays out of water. It never biodegrades and is destroying our oceans and marine wildlife
Read More »Improper bladder cancer treatment costing lives
It's the 5th most common cancer in the U.S., but in a troubling study, just one patient in 4,500 got the recommended treatment
Read More »Video: Tylenol’s recommended dosage lowered
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is cutting the recommended maximum amount of Tylenol Extra Strength because of health risks associated with excessive acetaminophen. Jeff Glor reports.
Read More »Half-Life and Death: Radioactive Drinking Water Scare in Japan Subsides, but Questions Remain
Three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant workers have made some headway in cooling the facility's overheated fuel rods. But overall, the situation remains "very serious," according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) . Despite the ongoing work to stabilize the plant and fears that radioactive materials had contaminated tap water as far away as Tokyo, 240 kilometers to the south, most of the recommended restrictions on drinking water have been lifted.
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