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SoCal Connected Ooooh! Spectres and hobgoblins and devils and ghouls. Wait a minute! Aren't things scary enough in real life? Humorist Brian Unger isn't ready for another Halloween.
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Still, there are foreclosures on almost every block. Unemployment is at historic highs. The budget deficit is ballooning and the planet is warming. Do we really need a scary holiday, when EVERYDAY is scary enough? Humorist Brian Unger ponders Halloween, during the Great Recession.
SoCal Connected Food trucks. From down-home to upscale, these mobile diners are a big part of living - and eating - in Southern California. Haute cuisine on the curb, coming right up.
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SoCal Connected anchor Val Zavala takes us on a mobile dining adventure, inside the food trucks that remain a vibrant part of the LA food scene. From the ubiquitous taco wagons, to the upscale restaurants ...
SoCal Connected No sodas in public schools. Eliminating trans-fats. Banning fast-food restaurants. Can - or should - government intervene to help us improve what we eat?
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For the past year, there's been a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants over a wide swath of South Central LA. Proponents say it's a way of improving the diet for the population, in an area with too few healthy food choices. ...
SoCal Connected Got a hankerin' for some roadside grub? Click for the essential info on the best of LA's mobile eateries, and how to find them.
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Sure there are upscale mobile dining "experiences" to go along with your more down-home taco and Korean BBQ trucks. But the real innovation in meals on wheels is in how easy it is to find them. Many now use Web sites and Twitter to broadcast their locations.
SoCal Connected Californians invented the cheeseburger, the fortune cookie and...Pinkberry's. Take a brief look at some of the great moments in So Cal food history.
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Southern California has been a crockpot of innovation when it comes to how and what we eat. Scroll through a few of our culinary contributions:
SoCal Connected We're having an epidemic of obesity. Many parents are concerned about their children becoming over-weight. Get some practical advice from a local expert in child nutrition.
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Mary Donkersloot is a Registered Dietician with a private practice in Beverly Hills. She specializes in child nutrition and eating disorders.
SoCal Connected Plain croissant or double cheeseburger? What's got more fat? More calories? Take a quiz to find out how much you know about making smart food choices.
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Bet you don't think about getting all your day's fat in one sitting when you're scarfing down that tasty treat. Take a quiz to find out how much you know about making smart food choices.
SoCal Connected You may be what you eat, but that doesn't mean you know much about what you're eating.
SoCal Connected Uninsured L.A. takes the Facebook quiz into a uncharted territory....
This humorous, somewhat inappropriate quiz burrows into your behavior during a fictional hospital visit to reveal your 'accident.'
SoCal Connected Commentator Patt Morrison recently had surgery, and now, more than ever, she's wondering why we all know the health care delivery system is deeply ill, yet we are so resistant to finding a cure.
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Two-thirds of all American bankruptcy cases involve medical bills. Grandma has Medicare, but her grand-children may be uninsured. And even if you have insurance, you often have to fight tooth and nail to get your provider to pay for your care. ...
SoCal Connected Laughing about having cancer? Correspondent Vince Gonzales says some serious giggles might be just what the doctor ordered.
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In times past, people were a lot more circumspect when it came to talking about disease. Most professionals think it's a health trend - we're far more open than we once were when it comes to illness. But ...
SoCal Connected A huge number of young Americans either can't get health insurance, can't afford it, or just don't think it's worth the cost.
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While young people generally enjoy good health, some get sick with serious or life-threatening illnesses. Yet a huge number of young Americans either can't get health insurance, can't afford it, or just don't think it's worth the cost. ...
SoCal Connected When funny man Robert Schimmel got sick, really sick, he turned to his old friend Humor to cope. Listen to him read an excerpt from his book, "Cancer on $5 a Day."
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Comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. So what's a funny man to do but make jokes about it?
SoCal Connected When Jovan Rodriguez was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, he had no insurance and no savings. So he made a video. See highlights from his last day of chemotherapy.
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He's one of the young people referred to by some as the Young Invincibles—those who fall in the 19-29 age bracket and make up the largest group of uninsured in the country—and he appears in our segment on the Young and Uninsured.
SoCal Connected Young people make up the largest group of Americans without health insurance. See the chart that says it all.
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They're the subject of the top story we're working on this week, as SoCal Connected looks at the legions of the young and uninsured.
