A recent national survey revealed that moms are more concerned with individual ingredients rather than their children's overall caloric intake. Since total calories typically determine weight gain and even obesity, parents must understand the basic nutritional facts to keep their kids healthy.

Water aerobics may help reduce the pain of childbirth. A new study shows that women who take classes during pregnancy are significantly less likely to ask for pain medication during delivery.

Weight-loss procedure may change fertility, nutritional needs, study suggests.

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"SAFE & SWEET TREATS," cooking class in observance of National Diabetes Month, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 20, Castle Medical Center, Wellness Center Auditorium; registration, 263-5400, www.castlemed.org.

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You already know that exercise is good for you. What you may not know is just how good -- or exactly what qualifies as exercise. The notion that physical activity helps keep us healthy is very old news indeed. Hippocrates wrote about the dangers of too little activity (and too much food). Tai chi, an exercise system of graceful movements that originated in China, dates from the 12th century B. ...

DYING TO BE BEAUTIFUL: What's really inside cosmetics and beauty treatments? Links between ingredients and birth defects, immune and nervous system toxicity, genetic material damage and other cancers. 6:15 p.m. today, Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

They begin gathering around Madrona Playground's picnic tables and restroom before dawn, quietly talking and stretching until 6 a.m., when they start hauling sandbags, running stairs and doing shoulder blade push-ups.