Year: 2016

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria needs more time to negotiate a railway concession project with U.S. company General Electric, the transport minister said on Wednesday. Both sides have confirmed talks on GE being granted a railway concession in the OPEC member worth around $2 billion.. Nigeria's economic growth has been hampered for decades by the lack of roads or functioning railways. The government, suffering from a slump in revenue from crude exports, wants to boost exports of food and other non-oil products.

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Choosing the right diet plan is challenging for many individuals but the Mediterranean Diet Plan has become recently popular. Unlike most fad diets …
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Officials say more than 80 schoolchildren in Cambodia have fallen ill after eating contaminated food distributed by a local volunteer group.
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Here's why you should moderate your food consumption instead of trying to completely exclude your favourite high-calorie foods from your diet.
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Exposure to tiny doses of hormone-disrupting chemicals is responsible for at least $340 billion (310 billion euros) in health-related costs each year in the United States, according to a report published Tuesday. Neurological damage and behavioural problems, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism and loss of IQ, accounted for at least four-fifths of these impacts, researchers said in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a medical journal. "Our research adds to the growing evidence on the tremendous economic as well as human health costs of endocrine-disrupting chemicals," said lead investigator Leonardo Trasande, an associate professor at NYU Langone in New York City.

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Dr. Nishant Rao, Medical Director of the nationally recognized weight loss program, Diet Doc, has researched the effectiveness of hCG injections and …
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