Year: 2016

By Steve Keating June 13 (Reuters) – Golf’s newest major winner Brooke Henderson is looking forward to representing Canada at the Rio Olympics but admitted on Monday to concern about the Zika virus threat hanging over the Summer Games. After beating world number one Lydia Ko in a playoff at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday, Henderson has put herself among the gold medal favourites in Rio. At 18 years and nine months, Henderson became the second-youngest woman to win a major after New Zealander Ko, who won last year’s Evian Championship aged 18 years and four months.
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If you really want to chisel away the flab and let the fab shine through, you're going to have concentrate most of your effort into dialing in your diet.
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By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – British scientists say they have developed a model that can predict outbreaks of zoonotic diseases – those such as Ebola and Zika that jump from animals to humans – based on changes in climate. "Our model can help decision-makers assess the likely impact (on zoonotic disease) of any interventions or change in national or international government policies, such as the conversion of grasslands to agricultural lands," said Kate Jones, a professor who co-led the study at University College London's genetics, evolution and environment department. Around 60 to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are so-called "zoonotic events", where animal diseases jump into people.

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The facts: The standard recommendation for the prevention and treatment of obesity is a reduced-fat diet and increased physical activity, and many …
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Pensions and the publicly funded National Health Service could face cuts if Britons vote to leave the European Union, Prime Minister David Cameron told a Sunday newspaper, seeking to win support from some of the most pro-Brexit members of the public. Polls, which show Britons are evenly divided ahead of a June 23 referendum on EU membership, also indicate the elderly are among the most likely to turn out on polling day and are also among the most eurosceptic voters.
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