Month: May 2016

We've just uncovered five surprise foods that you&039;ll be dying to sink your teeth into… and conveniently, it won&039;t sink your scales. As surprising as it may …
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By Nataly Pak SEOUL, May 11 (Reuters) – Former Olympic champion Park Tae-hwan was left off South Korea’s national swimming team on Wednesday due to a controversial Korean Olympic Committee regulation that tacked three years onto his 18-month doping ban imposed by world governing body FINA. Park completed the FINA ban in March after testing positive for testosterone ahead of the Incheon Asian Games in September 2014 but under KOC regulations he must wait three years from the end of his ban to be eligible for national selection again. Park, who won gold in the 400m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Games to become the first Korean to win an Olympic swimming medal, won all four of his races and met Olympic qualification standards at recent national trials.
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Tovar said that 80 to 90 percent of people regain the weight that is lost while on a diet (assuming they quit the diet), and added: "[T]he body you have …
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Roche has no plans to sell its diabetes testing business, despite a pummeling in the past three years from U.S. price cuts, and the Swiss drugmaker expects the unit to return to sales growth in 2017. Roland Diggelmann, head of Roche diagnostics, said the fundamentals for blood glucose meters remained strong given the growing incidence of type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity, especially in emerging markets. Roche, best known for its cancer drugs, is also the world's biggest diagnostics company and the market leader in diabetes testing.

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The San Francisco-based company has agreed to open its books to both Pfizer Inc and Amgen Inc , those people said. The move comes less than two weeks after Sanofi made its approach public by publishing a letter to Medivation's chief executive David Hung that contained details of the offer.

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The company specializes in teaching their patients how and why the body responds to specific foods and weight loss methods and helps their patients …
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India's biggest cigarette maker, ITC Ltd, said on Monday it had resumed production in phases, complying with new rules on pictorial warnings from the federal government. The company had shut its plants from May 4 as it worked to get much larger health warnings on cigarette packs, even as a court hears objections to the new rules. "ITC cigarette factories have resumed production in a phased manner, with the specified 85 percent graphical warning pending hearing by the Karnataka High Court,?" a company spokesman told Reuters in an email.

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