Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Reuters – Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, who appeared bald and without makeup in a recent book about her struggle against breast cancer, died in Houston on Saturday after losing her battle with the disease, according to Venezuelan TV news network Globovision. She was 28.
AP – Federal health officials said Monday they have added new safety warnings to the heart rhythm drug Multaq, after a company study by Sanofi linked the tablet to higher rates of heart attack, stroke and death in a subset of patients.
AP – Doctors in Chile are optimistic about the survival of a 10-month-old girl who was separated from a conjoined twin who died following the surgery.
Diet Doc Weight Loss announces that HCG drops do not contain hCG or contain less than 0.01% hCG according to the definition of homeopathic remedies and the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, …
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| Users can compete against strangers in weight loss challenges at Weightlosswars.com. (AP Photo/Weightlosswars.com) This screen shot image made on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, shows Healthywage.com. Healthywage.com is one of at least a dozen diet betting … See all stories on this topic » |
 Atlanta Journal Constitution |
Teens transitioning to college may significantly decrease their exercise.
www.latimes.com/…/la-heb-exercise-decline-teens-20111216,…
No matter how hard many of them try, they just can seem to exercise the weight off. Why not? "We're using this small group of obese and fit individuals," explains exercise physiologist Santiago Lorenzo, "To try and understand how are they able to do it …
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| Health experts are calling for junk food and fizzy drinks to have 'exercise labels' on their packaging to inform people how much physical exercise would need to be taken to burn off the sky-high calorie and fat content. Researchers from Johns Hopkins … See all stories on this topic » |
 Packaging Digest |
| A healthy level of weight loss is about a one pound per week, the FTC says. Knocking food groups. Popular diets based on eliminating entire food groups like carbohydrates or meat rarely provide long-term results and could put your health at risk. … See all stories on this topic » |
 Business Insider |