Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:10 PM EST
Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year's Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek.
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Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:46 PM EST
Paula Deen's diabetes revelation pretty much sums it up: Kitchen pros at all levels struggle with obesity and its dangerous aftertaste in the high-pressure, high-calorie world of food.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:11 PM EST
Celebrity chef Paula Deen on Wednesday pledged a portion of her earnings from a lucrative endorsement deal with a diabetes drugmaker to the nonprofit American Diabetes Association.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:52 PM EST
Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, is making no apologies for waiting three years to disclose she has diabetes while continuing to dish up deep-fried cheesecake and other high-calorie, high-fat recipes on TV.
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Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:00 PM EST
With its fireworks, family reunions and feasts, Lunar New Year is the longest and most important celebration for millions around the world.
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Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:24 PM EST
Parents of teens: If you think a drinking disaster at your kid's party can't happen at your house, not with your kid, because he's a good kid, it's time to wake up and smell the whiskey bottle tossed on your lawn.
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Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:48 PM EST
The heck with lovey-dovey Valentine's Day. Turns out December, with its holiday cheer, romantic winter backdrops and family gatherings, is among the busiest months for popping the question.
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Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:41 PM EST
As a 20-something, Erin Turner feels she made all the right moves dating wise. She graduated from college and spent three and a half years with a boyfriend before they moved in together.
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:58 PM EST
Neil Ylanan eats for a living and travels constantly as a food expert for a company that supplies in-flight meals to airlines. Toss in those sleepless, sluggish early years of fatherhood — he's got three young kids — and he was dealing with significant weight gain.
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Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:25 PM EST
Kids can video chat with Santa, follow him on Twitter or enlist NORAD to track his every move online. And yet in many ways, technology may be making it harder for parents to keep their children believing in the jolly old elf.
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Mon Nov 7, 2011 1:51 PM EST
At 17, Maggie Duwelius is a busy high school senior with her eye on a tough, competitive college.
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Tue Nov 1, 2011 1:48 PM EDT
OFFER. WANTED. TAKEN.
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Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:27 PM EDT
Dressed as protesters, complete with toy megaphone, Mitch Robinson and his wife unrolled a sleeping bag and "occupied" their friends' Halloween party. Unlike the real-life Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, they had a detailed, numbered list of demands for their hosts.
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Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:43 PM EDT
Pamela Reilly and her husband have big plans that don't include moping when their three teens finally fly the coop over the next two years.
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Fri Oct 7, 2011 2:55 PM EDT
A Minnesota food editor's game of Clue surmising that restaurant critic Robert Sietsema of the Village Voice is the cheeky, anonymous Ruth Bourdain on Twitter set the food world aflutter Friday.
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Tue Oct 4, 2011 2:02 PM EDT
As her grandfather sat pleasantly perplexed at her wedding, Lauren Barnes reached into the recesses of her strapless white gown, whipped out her iPhone and accepted her groom's Facebook relationship change to "married."
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Fri Sep 2, 2011 10:03 AM EDT
Messages of good health and positive self-esteem for girls aren't hard to come by in kid lit, so what's the deal with all the attention for a not-yet-published rhyming picture book about an obese, unhappy 14-year-old named Maggie?
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Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:03 PM EDT
Gnaw on this: Can some of food and style TV's biggest stars, Mario Batali and Clinton Kelly among them, help ABC soap fans get over cancellation of their favorite stories? The network's counting on it for "The Chew."
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Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:19 PM EDT
School's never out for 14-year-old Zoe Bentley. Nor is it ever in.
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Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:26 PM EDT
Cindy Hallman-Morris grew up with Tupperware's burping bowls, gelatin rings and pickle keeper, but she considered herself a casual buyer of the brand once she had her own kids.
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Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:04 PM EDT
Trey Rasmussen excelled at hockey at his Martha's Vineyard high school. Academics, not so much.
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Mon Aug 8, 2011 12:37 PM EDT
Brian Robinson was hiking the backcountry of the Colorado Rockies. Fred Goldsmith was at a dear friend's funeral in North Carolina. Amy Evans was joyously beginning her Semester at Sea on the Pacific, miles from her first port in Japan.
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Tue Jul 5, 2011 2:41 PM EDT
One mother chose home birth because it was cheaper than going to a hospital. Another gave birth at home because she has multiple sclerosis and feared unnecessary medical intervention. And some choose home births after cesarean sections with their first babies.
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Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:32 PM EDT
Rachel Zoe has a beautiful baby boy. To celebrate, husband Rodger Berman gave her a "push present" in the form of a 10-carat diamond ring that cost $250,000.
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Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:31 AM EDT
It took an M.D. and a Ph.D. to come up with "The Art of Roughhousing," a new parenting guide to good old-fashioned horseplay complete with ultra-simple diagrams for a safe "raucous pillow fight" or round of "human cannonball."
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