The state's largest health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, is taking over a handful of outlier parking spaces at shopping malls across Minnesota this month to encourage people to sneak in a few extra footsteps on the way inside. The idea is to remind shoppers that small behavior changes can have a big health impact.

Working parents who report having a high work-life stress load tend to offer less healthy food to their teenage children, a new University of Minnesota study says. Their families eat more fast food, for example, and fewer fruits and vegetables.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota is surprising people in downtown Minneapolis elevators on Tuesday and urging the to get some exercise on the spot.