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...cupboards, limiting TV time and - most important - being good role models. "The tragedy that so often occurs is that parents, out of fear for their kids' health, make a bad situation worse by using coercive parenting practices," Ludwig says. In his book, Ludwig writes that forcing certain dieting rules or other behaviors upon kids, especially when parents don't live up to their own standards, rarely motivates kids to take responsibility for their habits. Coercion can also fray family ties and undermine the child's self-esteem. (See how to burn more energy, naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is My Child Really Overweight? | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

This matters because if extinction were truly random, we'd have a much richer evolutionary history, because at least some representatives of all living things would make it to the present. But because extinction tends to be clumped around certain lineages, when extinction occurs we lose whole groups of species. "The long-term consequences are therefore much worse for biodiversity," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extinction 'Gene': Some Species Are More at Risk | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...good news is that H1N1 is not, so far, a particularly severe disease for those who are healthy. Through July, 353 Americans were confirmed to have died from the new flu out of an estimated 1 million infected. With the exception of certain populations - including pregnant women, children with chronic diseases and people with respiratory ailments - H1N1 tends to be no worse than the seasonal flu. A few days in bed and lots of liquids, and most patients get better. The bad news is that H1N1 is highly contagious and, unlike many other flus, is particularly hard on children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Fight Against a Flu Pandemic | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades." - Testimony of John Doe #2, entered into federal court in Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...plans to build 50,000 EVs at its Oppama plant in its first full year of production. The company anticipates sales of 200,000 in 2012, when the car will be sold globally. Richter says 200,000 is a conservative goal. But Yoshida argues that it's far from certain drivers will switch. "There's still a big question mark [regarding sales] because of consumer perception caused by the limitation of driving range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nissan's New Leaf: An Electric Car and Charging Stations Too | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

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