Month: April 2012
Briefs: Environmental Nutrition
Tracking your eating through self-monitoring–noting each morsel you consume in a food diary–is tied to proven weight loss and weight management. Self-monitoring creates an awareness of the amount you eat, your eating behaviors, and situations that …
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City to prepare for All-Star game with emergency exercise at Kauffman
Those are some of the possible scenarios that might be played out today in what city officials are describing as a “full-scale emergency exercise” at Kauffman. Some 250 to 300 invited participants are expected, including police, fire and other …
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Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons are still sweating
By Julie Deardorff Exercise guru Richard Simmons, now 64, keeps on teaching; Jane Fonda, 74, has new DVDs for baby boomers. STEPHANIE WELSH / Palm Beach Post Decades after revolutionizing the fitness world, Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons are back doing …
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More Employees Stand, Even Exercise While Working
BOSTON — At workplaces across the country, more and more employees are standing while working, or exercising while working. Two Boston-area companies say the trend is paying off, with healthier and more productive employees. At Blue Cross Blue Shield …
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South Korea says will continue to allow U.S. beef imports
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will continue to allow U.S. beef imports after a cow was discovered with mad cow disease in California, the Korean agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. It said it will strengthen its quarantine inspections of imported U.S. beef until the U.S. authorities provide details of the outbreak situation, but stopped short of suspending inspections, which would have effectively prevented imports. “We have requested details from the U.S. side, as we need to determine which necessary measures should be taken,” a ministry official told reporters. U.S. …
Amgen to buy Turkish drugmaker for $700 million
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. biotech company Amgen is to buy Turkey’s Mustafa Nevzat Pharmaceuticals, a maker of injectable generic drugs, for around $700 million in a deal underscoring Western drugmakers’ thirst for emerging markets sales. The purchase, announced by both companies on Wednesday, is the latest in a string of acquisitions by international drug companies – both at home and abroad – as they try to buy growth to offset patent expiries and price cuts. …
'Why Calories Count' weighs in on food and politics
But it's also the source of confusion and worry for many people trying to lose weight. At the same time, calories — too few or too many — are causing health problems resulting from malnutrition and obesity that affect billions of people around the …
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Global famine if India, Pakistan unleash nukes: study
More than a billion people worldwide could starve if India and Pakistan unleash nuclear weapons because even a ‘limited’ nuclear war would cause major climate disruptions, a study warned.
Malaria infections surge in Congo: MSF
DAKAR (Reuters) – Malaria cases treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) more than tripled to 155,000 last year from two years previous, the aid agency said on Tuesday. The increase shows an upsurge in the prevalence of the deadly mosquito-borne parasitic disease, but it was still unclear what was behind the increase in the number, MSF said ahead of world malaria day on Wednesday. “It’s very difficult to give a scientific answer … …
Still in the frame, the camera defies smartphone onslaught
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – While most attention in the gadget world is on the breakneck pace of innovation in mobile phones, tablets and computers, another device has resolutely refused to die: the camera. Despite the onslaught of camera phones — the iPhone 4 has this year become the most popular device for posting snaps to the photo-sharing website Flickr — cameras are still being sold. Japan, the world’s largest manufacturer, shipped nearly three times as many cameras in January as it did in the same month of 2003, when the camera phone was still in its infancy. …
Japan says no impact on TPP talks from mad cow case
TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States’ first reported mad cow disease case in six years will not affect negotiations about Japan’s possible membership in a U.S.-led Pacific trade pact, the government said on Wednesday. For Washington, Japan’s curbs on beef imports from countries hit by the disease are one the sticking points and U.S. exporters have been counting on Tokyo to relax the curbs following a review initiated in December. The curbs, which in 2005 replaced a total ban put in place after the first mad cow case in 2003, have capped U.S. …