LEANNE ITALIE

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Deciphering the Super Bowl: XLVI is Greek to kids

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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Food Network, book take on weight in chef whites

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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Paula Deen pledges money to diabetes association

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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Chef Paula Deen hid diabetes, pushed high-fat food

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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Adopted kids mini-ambassadors come Lunar New Year

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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Parents held responsible for underage drinking

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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December is a busy month for popping the question

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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Staying out of the ring: Barely half of adults wed

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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Websites make weight-loss wagering easy

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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Is tech friend or foe to Santa Claus?

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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Teens turn to life coaches to cope with pressures

At 17, Maggie Duwelius is a busy high school senior with her eye on a tough, competitive college.

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Anti-Wall Streeters inspire Halloween costumes

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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Empty nest? Not all parents are sad about it

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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Food world goes nuts over Ruth Bourdain report

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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Social media, mobile tech on the rise for weddings

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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Outrage explodes over rhyming `diet' picture book

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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ABC hopes `The Chew' can win over daytime viewers

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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School's out forever for `unschoolers'

School's never out for 14-year-old Zoe Bentley. Nor is it ever in.

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A bold renaissance for Tupperware, redefined

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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Reformers use new ways to tackle college readiness

Trey Rasmussen excelled at hockey at his Martha's Vineyard high school. Academics, not so much.

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Hiking, in mourning, at sea, they missed Sept. 11

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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Home birth on the rise by a dramatic 20 percent

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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Push presents for mom: easy bling or heartfelt?

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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New parenting guide offers the art of roughhousing

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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