Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
More restaurants display calorie counts on their menus, but what if they also informed you what it would take to burn off those calories? It's one thing to know how many calories are packed into a meal you're about to eat, and quite another to fully …
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(Reuters) – AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc said a mid-stage trial of its experimental pain drug showed that a higher dose of the therapy met the main goal of reducing acute pain in patients, but the lower dose failed to meet the goal. Shares of the company fell 4 percent to $5.92 on Wednesday morning on the Nasdaq. However, analysts said they viewed the trial data as positive. “The whole point of a dose-finding trial is to find the lowest efficacious dose, and they have done that at the higher dose of 30 mcg. So, I don’t read a lot into the lower dose,” MLV & Co analyst Ed Arce said. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The dabs of butter and splashes of cream in recipes of celebrity chefs may be impressive on the plate, but not necessarily so good for your health. Research published in the Food and Public Health journal by University of Coventry scientists said on Wednesday that recipes of celebrity chefs were “exacerbating” health problems such as obesity in Britain by encouraging people to eat fatty dishes. …
BEIJING (AP) — A new strain of bird flu that emerged in China over the past month is one of the “most lethal” flu viruses so far, worrying health officials because it can jump more easily from birds to humans than the one that started killing people a decade ago, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday.
By Sui-Lee Wee and Kate Kelland BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) – A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Wednesday. The H7N9 flu has infected 108 people in China since it was first detected in March, according to the Geneva-based WHO. …
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A 53-year-old Taiwan businessman has contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu while travelling in China, Taiwan's Health Department said on Wednesday, the first reported case outside of mainland China. The man was hospitalized after becoming ill three days after returning from Suzhou on April 9, Health Department Minister Wen-Ta Chiu told a news conference. Chiu said the patient was diagnosed with the H7N9 virus and was in serious condition. Chiu said Taiwan will take appropriate measures, including opening a special out-patient clinic for H7N9 cases. …
| Researchers concluded that when diners were told how many hours of exercise were needed to burn off calories, they ordered less food and choose healthier options. The study from Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, also found that if people were … See all stories on this topic » |
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| High protein diets are popular for weight loss and help you lose weight. Most weight loss diets include no carb or low carb diets. But are these weight loss diets healthy? Here are the top four reasons to ditch high protein diet aka low carb diets or … See all stories on this topic » |
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