Month: January 2016

The government said 380 people had died in 3,379 accidents during a seasonal surge dubbed the “Seven Dangerous Days”, the highest toll in five years on what are already some of the world’s deadliest roads. Thailand reported a higher road death rate than any other country apart from war-ravaged Libya in a report published last year by the World Health Organization (WHO). Traffic accidents killed more than 24,000 people in 2012 and shaved 3 percent off gross domestic product, according to the most recent WHO estimates.
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For years, the debate on whether diet or exercise or a combination of both is the best option for losing weight has been discussed by health authorities …
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By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Two civilians, a soldier and a police officer have been killed in southeastern Turkey as military operations to root out armed fighters focused on urban centers across the mainly Kurdish region, security sources said. President Tayyip Erdogan said last week there would be no let-up in a military campaign that he said had killed more than 3,000 militants in 2015. A 35-year-old mother of three children were killed and another person was wounded on Sunday after a mortar hit their house in the district of Sur in the region’s largest city of Diyarbakir, the sources said late on Sunday.
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Staff Photo by Stephanie Turner Ginger Hudock, an Aiken nutrition consultant who owns Nutrition with Ginger, demonstrates preparing a salad.
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In fact, with so many blogs, diet books and celebrity-endorsed fitness DVDs on the … fruit, dairy products and nuts – leading to a less than healthy diet.
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ROME (AP) — An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-normal incidents of death and cancer among residents in and around Naples, thanks to decades of toxic waste dumping by the local Camorra mob.

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