Month: September 2013

By Louise Egan OTTAWA (Reuters) – A move by Canada's federal government to offload some healthcare costs onto the country's provinces will leave provincial governments facing ballooning debt unless they raise taxes or cut spending, the parliamentary budget office (PBO) says. The federal government is in good fiscal health after it introduced broad spending cuts with the goal of eliminating its budget deficit by 2015, the PBO said in a report on Thursday on the long-term fiscal sustainability of Canada's various levels of government. …

Yet, desperate to lose weight, Americans keep going on diets. … Enjoy less healthy foods now and then, in small portions, unless there's a medical reason not to …

Flu season is just around the corner.        

By Esha Dey and Bill Berkrot (Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co said it will not seek a breast cancer approval for one of its most closely watched experimental drugs after it failed to significantly delay disease progression and showed no survival benefit in a late-stage trial. The drug, ramucirumab, has been successful in gastric cancer trials and is also being tested for colon, liver and lung cancers, with key late stage data on those three expected next year. But Lilly shares fell more than 3 percent after it released the disappointing breast cancer results. …

Weight gain seems to be par for the course when you're spending your day tasting … they announced they'd lost a collective 400 pounds in a 12-week weight loss … more Americans are consuming the majority of their meals outside the home, …

By Kathleen Raven NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New evidence suggests older adults with a healthy weight but high percentage of body fat are at increased risk of heart-related diseases and death. Looking at data on 1,528 people with a normal body mass index (BMI) – a measure of weight in relation to height – researchers found one in five men and nearly one in three women had a body fat percentage above what is considered healthy. The study builds on previous research showing some people with a healthy weight may still be carrying around too much fat. …