Year: 2014
U.S. states’ pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency
VIENNA (Reuters) – Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said on Wednesday, adding he would discuss the issue in Washington next week. Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital voted this month to allow the use of marijuana, boosting the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream. …
Popular Diets Achieve Only Modest Long-Term Weight Loss
Four of the most popular current weight loss diets produce at best only … Missing from the analysis is “the full expanse of competing dietary claims,” …
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Women Can Do Anything Men Can Do, But Here’s One Surprising Thing They’re Even Better At
Who would have thought that these catchy lyrics from the 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun would fit so perfectly into a conversation today about women and heart disease? Unfortunately, they do: More women than men have died of heart disease every year since 1984.In fact, heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women claiming more lives…
Mali quarantines dozens after Ebola kills second victim
By Joe Penney BAMAKO (Reuters) – Authorities in Mali quarantined dozens of people on Wednesday at the home of a 25-year-old nurse who died from Ebola in the capital, Bamako, and at the clinic where he treated an imam from Guinea who died with Ebola-like symptoms. The imam from the border town of Kouremale was never tested for the disease and his body was washed in Mali and returned to Guinea for burial without precautions against the virus. Two aid workers said that another person who lived in the house where the imam stayed in Bamako had died this week and was buried without being tested. …
YMCA of Austin: Exercise is prescribed, so listen to your doctor
He said orders they will follow. "Take these pills three times daily," for example, and advice-like "you should really get more exercise," they often ignore …
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Scientists Review Weight Loss Diets, Find Results Shocking
But as per scientists, the effectiveness of these diets is not clear. … Low-fat diets, behavioral weight loss intervention, nutritional counseling are used in …
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Local exercise group helps senior citizens stay fit and active
Pat Blecke works on cardio routines during an exercise class Nov. 5 at the California Nutrition Center. Blecke proudly wears her exercise group t-shirt …
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Learn How to Lose Weight and Improve Health Through Diet Doc's Prescription Hormone …
With this in mind, Diet Doc created their diet plans that include hormone treatments and education that teach patients how to lose weight without …
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Inside the hCG diet: How it made a big difference for Geoffrey and Corinne
Any healthy person who wants to lose weight is the ideal candidate. … diet that's made headlines in the US, largely because of the dramatic weight …
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Final phase of CARAT 2014 exercise begins in Brunei
The final phase of the 20th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise has started at the Maura Naval Base in Brunei.
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Weight loss vs. health gain: Are you tipping the balance?
Eradicating as much processed food from your diet as you can (preferably … Another simple idea, but one which has the weight of scientific research …
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