Month: April 2015

The American Academy of Pediatrics also considers the use of diet pills and weight loss supplements to be unhealthy, according to the researchers.
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They thought it was a weight–loss diet and they started buying gluten-free, the … They figured if it was 'free' of something, then it must make it healthy.".
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Participants followed a diet that reduced their calorie intake to 30% fewer calories than each individual burned in a day. They were assigned at …
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By Rupam Jain Nair and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – The death toll from Nepal's devastating earthquake could reach 10,000, the prime minister said on Tuesday, as residents frustrated by the government's slow response used their bare hands to dig for signs of their loved ones. "The government is doing all it can for rescue and relief on a war footing," Prime Minister Sushil Koirala told Reuters. "It is a challenge and a very difficult hour for Nepal." International aid has finally begun arriving in the Himalayan nation of 28 million people, three days after Saturday's 7.9 magnitude quake, but disbursement is slow. According to the home (interior) ministry, the confirmed death toll stands at 4,349, with over 7,000 injured.

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By Lien Hoang DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) – Tan Tri doesn’t know a thing about Agent Orange. His mother Vo Thi Nham was exposed to Agent Orange when U.S. forces showered the chemical across swathes of Vietnam half a century ago to the destroy jungle cover of its wartime enemy. “Other people around here were affected by Agent Orange, too, but it was really bad for us,” Nham said at her home in Danang, central Vietnam. The Vietnam War ended 40 years ago this week and its memory is fading among its young population.
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By Kizito Makoye Dar es Salaam (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lydia Daudi saw no other choice than to end her six-week pregnancy to spare her deeply religious family from the shame of a pregnancy before marriage. “I was very scared and shocked because it was my first time to do such a thing,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The interview was arranged by a Dar es Salaam-based group that protects women’s rights and declined to be identified. Abortion is illegal in Tanzania except to save a woman’s life and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
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By Douglas Busvine NEW DELHI (Reuters) – All of the climbers who had been stranded at camps high up Mount Everest by a huge earthquake and avalanches have been helicoptered to safety, mountaineers reported from base camp on Tuesday. Around half of the tents at Everest base camp were destroyed by an avalanche unleashed by Saturday’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake, killing between 17 and 22 climbers, according to separate accounts. Canadian Nick Cienski said many of the returning climbers’ tent camps had been wiped out by the avalanche which, surging at speeds estimated at up to 300 km per hour, cut a swath through base camp, hurling gear, people and tents hundreds of feet. Danish climber Carsten Lillelund Pedersen said his team had been trekking on Saturday down from camp 2, which is at an altitude of 6,400 meters, when it was caught in a whiteout and had to turn back.
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