Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For kids, time spent inactive seems less of a factor in higher body fat than does a lack of exercise, according to a new study. Researchers found that the more minutes kids spent exercising at the pace of a fast walk each …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City will give restaurants and food outlets a three-month grace period before imposing fines for serving the large sugary drinks that will be banned, city officials said on Tuesday. The board of the city’s Department of Health passed the ban, the first of its kind in the nation, in September, arguing that excessive soda drinking was a significant cause of obesity and other health problems. …
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For kids, time spent inactive seems less of a factor in higher body fat than does a lack of exercise, according to a new study. Researchers found that the more minutes kids spent exercising at the pace of a fast walk each day, the lower their body fat percentage was. But the time they spent as couch potatoes made no difference, according to results published in the Journal of Pediatrics. …
Tulare County goes on record that “Preventing youth from purchasing cigarettes and other tobacco products illegally is an important goal of our program,” the Porterville Recorder explains. Citing statistics showing that the illegal sale of tobacco products decreased from 13.2 percent in 2006 to only 5.6 percent in 2011, officials specifically work with the non-traditional tobacco retailers who may be targeted by youngsters in an attempt to purchase cigarettes and other tobacco products. …
A study published on Monday in the journal Thorax has linked fast food consumption to an increased risk of asthma and allergies in children. Researchers looked at more than 500,000 children in 51 different nations to weigh how much influence that eating fast food on a regular basis may have on their overall health.
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Europe's top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that equality laws and safety concerns trumped religious freedom in three cases where British Christians were sacked or sanctioned for expressing their beliefs at work. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled employers did not violate the religious rights of a registrar who refused to officiate for civil partnerships of same-sex couples and a counselor deemed unwilling to offer sex therapy for gays. It also turned down an appeal by a nurse whose hospital barred her from wearing a cross around her neck. …
LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s new chief executive stamped his authority on the struggling drugmaker on Tuesday by removing the heads of research and commercial operations in a management revamp designed to speed decision-making. Pascal Soriot, who took the helm at Britain’s second-biggest pharmaceutical company in October, said the roles held by Martin Mackay and Tony Zook respectively had been eliminated and both men would leave the company at the end of January. …