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Post Is Hungry for Bob Evans' Frozen Foods 09/18/2017 08:00pm • Cereal giant Post Holdings Inc. ( POST) completed an under-the-radar deal to acquire refrigerated food services company Bob Evans Farms Inc. ( BOBE) Tuesday for $1.5 billion. In a difficult market for large food companies, Post jumped at the opportunity to expand its refrigerated side dish offerings 3 Ways to Tackle the ACT a Second Time 09/17/2017 08:00pm • Later this week, registration closes for the Oct. 28 ACT exam, a college admissions test that assesses students on reading, English, math and science and also includes an optional writing section. College applicants who've already taken the test once have good reason to sign up again. Recent high s How Employers Decide Whether to Interview You 09/17/2017 08:00pm • Ever wonder what hiring managers are thinking as they read over your resume, and how they choose whom to interview and whom to reject? This early screening is generally pretty straightforward on the employer side of the process. Here's a look at what most hiring managers are thinking about as they r How a Dietitian Gained -- and Lost -- More Than 20 Pounds 09/17/2017 08:00pm • As a registered dietitian nutritionist, I've worked with hundreds of people who struggle with their weight. But for most of my life, I couldn't really relate. Since college, I've weighed 125 pounds -- save the 40 pounds I gained (and lost) with each pregnancy. I've also always been active -- I play 9 Fertility-Boosting Tips for Men 09/17/2017 08:00pm • Getting pregnant: It definitely takes two to make a thing go right. And with an increase in health news revealing that men have plenty to do with the conception equation, many want to know which lifestyle factors can influence fertility. Numerous couples trying to conceive already find that it can 5 celebrities whose diets are on point, according to nutritionists 09/17/2017 05:55am • In all my years counseling clients -- including many celebrities and dignitaries who must remain unnamed -- I've never recommended celebrity-endorsed quick fixes like cleanses over common sense. But whether I like it or not, celebrity fad diets are often mimicked by their fans of all ages, who may b Renaming J.E.B. Stuart: Potential pick honors fallen war hero grad 09/16/2017 11:06pm • FALLS CHURCH, Va. — It was election day on Saturday as residents from the J.E.B. Stuart High School-area cast their votes and picked the new name they want the school to be called. Back in July, the Fairfax County School Board voted to rename the school following a contentious battle over the i Growing Up With a Parent Who Has Type 1 Diabetes 09/14/2017 08:00pm • Although Miranda Haynes 23, of Toledo, Ohio, doesn't have Type 1 diabetes, the condition shaped her childhood. When she was 6, her father, then 42, was diagnosed. As the devoted daughter of a man with hard-to-control diabetes with extreme blood-sugar highs and lows, "I had to grow up fast," she say What Are the Best Forms of Exercise for COPD Patients? 09/14/2017 08:00pm • If you've been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, you probably know that exercise is a key component of managing this progressive, incurable lung disease that makes it difficult to breathe. The COPD Foundation reports that "exercise itself cannot reverse COPD, but it can change t Is Your Belly Fat Raising Your Cancer Risk? 09/14/2017 08:00pm • Most of us tend to think about belly fat in terms of how it looks and what pant size we wish we could fit into. Some of us consider the health implications: an uptick in the risk of insulin resistance, Type 2 diabetes and even heart disease. Very few of us think about cancer. However, obesity -- wh Can You Eat Fruit if You Have Diabetes? 09/13/2017 08:00pm • You're smart to worry about the sugar you consume when you have diabetes. After all, higher sugar consumption can lead to higher blood sugar levels. Over time, that can lead to all sorts of health complications. One question you may wonder about is whether you can eat fruit. The good news is that, How Boosting the Minimum Wage Could Lower the Teen Birthrate 09/13/2017 08:00pm • Paying higher wages to adolescents who earn the minimum wage could reduce the number of babies born to teenage mothers. In fact, raising the state minimum wages by $1 would reduce adolescent births across the U.S. by about 5,000 annually, according to a recent study by an Indiana University researc Study Finds Weight-Loss Surgery Vastly Improves Rheumatoid Arthritis 09/12/2017 08:00pm • If you're severely -- or morbidly -- obese and have rheumatoid arthritis, weight-loss surgery may greatly improve your symptoms, and there's even a good chance that it may cause the disease to go into remission. These are the findings of a 2015 study published in the journal Arthritis Care & Res U.S. News Responds to Politico's Critiques of Best Colleges 09/12/2017 08:00pm • Over the more than 30 years U.S. News & World Report has evaluated colleges, we've received our share of criticism -- some of it fair and some of it unfounded. But the recent Politico story, "How U.S. News college rankings promote economic inequality on campus," is a bizarrely constructed articl What to Do When Your Index Fund Changes 09/12/2017 08:00pm • Index-oriented investors strike a bargain: They'll settle for returns that merely match the market in exchange for low fees that boost profits over time. They go on autopilot, tracking an underlying benchmark like the Standard & Poor's 500 index, and give up the chance of beating the market for