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Does your child need to gain weight?

What to do when children fall below a healthy weight range for their age.

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Understandably, the sensitive topic of weight in children and teens often focuses on the health costs of overweight and obesity. Sometimes, though, a child needs to gain some weight. And while there are lots of ways to make that happen, not all of them are healthy.

What to do if your child seems underweight

If you are worried about whether your child needs to gain weight, it’s very important to check with your doctor before getting to work on fattening them up. It’s entirely possible that

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Older Honda CR-Vs, Volkswagen SUVs among 790,000 recalled cars this week. Check recalls here.

The latest round of vehicle recalls posted in the last week by the US National Highway Traffic Administration includes potentially corroded SUV frames, possibly deactivated front passenger air bags and power sliding doors causing injuries. Honda and Volkswagen accounted for most of the 790,000 cars recalled in the last week.

Car owners can check USA TODAY’s automotive recall database or search the NHTSA’s database for new recalls. The NHTSA website also allows you to search for recalls based on your vehicle identification number, or VIN.

What else is under recall?: Check USA TODAY’s searchable recall database; cars, food, consumer products

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Need a New Mechanic? 23 Questions To Ask so You Don’t Get Ripped Off

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FG Trade / Getty Images

Car repairs can be costly — and if not done correctly, you can end up with a vehicle that isn’t safe to drive. That’s why it’s so important to have a mechanic you can trust.

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Do You Have a Money Question? Ask an Expert

After you’ve done an initial search on Yelp and asked friends and family members for recommendations, there are a few important questions you should ask any potential new mechanic before trusting them with your car.

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How rising food prices make eating healthy a big-time struggle for some Canadians


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Food inflation: Rising prices make eating healthy a struggle for low-income Canadians


Over a six-week period, as part of the ‘Out of Pocket’ series, Global News is examining how inflation is impacting Canadians from coast to coast.

Canadians are feeling the pressure at the checkout lane as grocery prices continue to rise sharply – especially lower-income individuals, whose pocketbooks and diets are noticing the most impacts.

Food inflation is hitting some of the most nourishing foods the hardest, which makes them harder to access by people who are on lower incomes.

“Those who are in the lowest income, on

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Updated hand-washing guidelines for applying in your home

Beyond the usual soap, water and paper towel treatment, hand hygiene has typically been the domain of health-care professionals and food and beverage workers.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a reminder for households around the world about the importance of thorough, multi-step hand washing. The way respiratory viruses have circulated this winter following the return to in-person learning and pre-pandemic social activities, most Canadians could probably benefit from a refresher.

Fortunately, the standard essential practices for hand hygiene in health-care settings have just received an update, thanks to a collaboration between five major US-based medical organizations.

The latest recommendations

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Client Stories rating for essentially the most dependable vehicles of 2023 are in. Listed below are the winners.

Seems hybrid vehicles provide greater than only a means to economize on the pump. They’re additionally essentially the most dependable automobile class of 2023, in keeping with a latest report.

Client Stories, a nonprofit analysis and client advocacy group, launched rankings for essentially the most dependable automobile sorts, manufacturers and fashions primarily based on info from automobile house owners on greater than 300,000 automobiles. Predictions for 2023 fashions are primarily based on general reliability for the previous three mannequin years.

Hybrid vehicles and midsize and huge sedans had been discovered to be among the many most dependable automobiles primarily based

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