... more food and calories than they need," says Sharon Sugerman, a research scientist at the Berkeley-based Public Health Institute, a nonprofit health organization. "With all the choice out there, next time you're at the fast- food counter ...

... earlier, including toxic flame retardants from fabrics. A new study by Barbara Cohn and other scientists at the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, Calif., finds that girls exposed to elevated levels of the pesticide DDT before age 14 are five ...