Tributes pour in for "Friends" star Matthew Perry following his death at 54. Plus, emergency room pediatricians share the risky Halloween activities they won't let their own children engage in, and a personal trainer points out the No. 1 mistake she sees people making in the gym. |
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An average of 3,200 Halloween-related injuries were treated in emergency rooms each year between 2019 and 2022, and we spoke with experts about how to keep your kids safe tomorrow night. Pediatric ER doctors who are also parents shared 7 risky activities they won't let their own children do on Halloween. Cars pose the biggest threat to trick-or-treaters, so staying on sidewalks, using crosswalks and carrying a flashlight or glow sticks to be more visible are crucial to keeping safe. See all the tips here. |
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One thing that is decidedly not a risk to kids on Halloween is getting poisoned candy in their bags. That story about your cousin's friend's brother dying after getting a razor blade in his candy is almost certainly a myth. University of Delaware professor Joel Best has been spearheading research about poisoned Halloween candy for nearly 40 years. He told TODAY.com he "cannot find a single case of a child killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating" using data going back to 1958. The lone exception was a Texas boy in 1984, and it turned out his own father did it. Continue reading. |
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Achieve your life and health goals with easy tips. |
Working out with heavy weights for repeated reps can be ineffective and likely to cause injury if your form isn't correct. TODAY fitness contributor Stephanie Mansour says there's one sight that particularly frazzles her. "Not engaging your abs — and specifically pulling the navel in toward the spine during all of your workouts — is the No. 1 mistake I see people making at the gym," she told us. Stephanie has 3 tips on how to correct that mistake, as well as an exercise to try that will train your core to engage when you work out. |
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Allow us to do the meal-planning for you |
Power up your kids for trick-or-treating tomorrow with these protein-packed air-fryer chicken tenders from TODAY's Joy Bauer. Use low-fat buttermilk or pickle juice to make the marinade, and, if you don't have an air-fryer, Joy has tips to make them in the oven. You've got to have some sauce for your tenders, and these go well with anything from honey mustard to spicy ketchup. Get the recipe. |
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A little pick-me-up before you go. |
The Ayres family received a giant bundle of joy just ahead of Halloween this year. Their boy Sonny was born on Oct. 23 at a hospital in Ontario, Canada, weighing 14 pounds, 8 ounces, about twice the size of a normal newborn, to set a new record for the hospital. "When they put Sonny on the scale, there was a drumroll and all the doctors and nurses were throwing out guesses about what the number would be," dad Chance Ayres told TODAY.com. Sonny is the couple's fifth child. "Everywhere I went I got questions like, 'How many are in there?'" mom Britteney said. "And I'd have to explain that it wasn't multiples, it was just one very large baby." See more. |
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