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Keep away from 'calorie bombs'

By Anne Godlasky, USA TODAY
As you start the new year resolved to lose weight, keep in mind that grocery store aisles are filled with nutritional landmines that could sabotage your best efforts. Some packaged foods are loaded with more fat, calories and sodium than...

Amount of salt in foods may be scary

By Anne Godlasky, USA TODAY
Between chips and seven-layer dip during football watching and cocktail weenies and mini quiches at holiday parties, it's a salty season. But sodium may be hidden in some unexpected foods that don’t taste particularly salty, according to a report in...

Comfort Menu 4: Curried chicken salad, easy ravioli bake and more

Comfort Menu 4: Curried chicken salad, easy ravioli bake and more

Comfort Menu 3: Guac and turkey, spaghetti and meatballs, more

Comfort Menu 3: Guac and turkey, spaghetti and meatballs, more

Comfort Menu 7: Tuna Nioise, Italian meat loaf and more

Comfort Menu 7: Tuna Nioise, Italian meat loaf and more.

Comfort Menu 6: Four-cheese macaroni and more

Comfort Menu 6: Four-cheese macaroni and more

Comfort Menu 5: Chicken salad pitas, chili and cornbread

Comfort Menu 5: Chicken salad pitas, chili and cornbread

Comfort Menu 2: Chowder, pot roast, more

Comfort Menu 2: Chowder, pot roast, more

Comfort Menu 1: Beef stew, peach cobbler and more

Menus by registered dietitians and recipes from Cooking Light Complete Cookbook can help you slim down family favorites.

Legal battles have lethal injection on trial

By Kevin Johnson and Richard Willing, USA TODAY

As lawsuits from California to Florida have challenged the constitutionality of lethal injections, more than a dozen states and the federal government have sought Texas' advice in carrying out such executions.