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Misc. News
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Non-food Things
Choosing A Credit Card: The Deal is in the Disclosures
A credit card lets you buy things and pay for them over time. Using a credit card is a form of borrowing: you have to pay the money back.
Oct 14, 2008 - 4:57:19 PM
Diet & Health
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Heart & Blood
Vitamin C lowers blood pressure
Got
hypertension?
It may be time to try intravenous injection of
vitamin C.
A new Italian study found
that vitamin C intravenously delivered can lower blood pressure by acting on an
overactive central nervous system.
Sep 20, 2008 - 6:46:49 PM
Diet & Health
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Heart & Blood
Weight loss helps lower your blood pressure
More
Americans now than ever live with high blood pressure and many do not know they
have the condition, according to a new study published in the Nov. 2008 issue
of hypertension.
Oct 15, 2008 - 1:45:11 PM
Diet & Health
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Children & Women
Why don't I feed my child cow milk?
The dairy-melamine scandal in China has shocked the
world. The adulterated milk products have killed at least three infants and
sickened more than 50,000 in mainland China.
Oct 15, 2008 - 10:19:18 AM
General Health
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Lifestyle
Poor sleeping raises risk of high blood pressure
A new
study published in the Nov. 2008 issue of hypertension found that more Americans
than ever live with high blood pressure and many of them do not know about their
condition.
Oct 15, 2008 - 8:57:17 AM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Want to prevent Alzheimer’s disease? Eat less!
Want to
prevent brain diseases like Alzheimer's disease or simply slow age-related
mental decline?
Forget about taking B
vitamins like B6, B12 and folate, according to one study.
Instead reduce your intake of calories,
according to another study.
Oct 15, 2008 - 6:09:08 AM
Diet & Health
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Heart & Blood
Caffeinated beverages raise risk of high blood pressure in teens
Drinking
caffeinated beverages may raise risk of high blood pressure in teens, according
to a study published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Oct 15, 2008 - 4:17:42 AM
Diet & Health
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Cancer
Drinking coffee may raise risk of certain breast cancers
Drinking
coffee or eating caffeine-laden foods does not seem to increase the overall
risk of breast cancer in the general population, according to researchers at
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Oct 15, 2008 - 3:41:38 AM
Misc. News
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Non-food Things
Six things to consider for auto insurance
One of the best ways to keep your auto insurance costs down is to have a good driving record.
Oct 15, 2008 - 3:24:59 AM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
Grisly Hen Video Shows Why We Need Prop 2
When Nancy Reimers, a
veterinarian working for the United Egg Producers-supported
Californians for Safe Food told California newspapers that, "Modern
chicken houses are heated, cooled and monitored in every possible
area," she didn't mean monitored by humane investigators with cameras.
Oct 14, 2008 - 9:40:41 PM
Misc. News
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Non-food Things
FTC Consumer Alert: Buying a Home: It’s a Big Deal
Whether you’re shopping for
appliances or automobiles, groceries or gadgets, travel services or tax
preparers, the Internet has changed the way most people gather
information about products and services.
Oct 14, 2008 - 9:33:32 PM
Diet & Health
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Body Weight
Obese people have heart attack much earlier than those with normal weight
Of those who
had heart attacks, obese people suffered the cardiovascular event much earlier
than those with normal body weight, according to a new study published in the
Sep 16, 2008 issue of Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Oct 14, 2008 - 9:14:00 PM
Food & Health
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Cooking & Packing
Healthy Recipes: Portobello Burgers
As grills fire up across the country for football tailgates, try
serving meaty portobello mushrooms as a replacement for your usual
fare. In addition to cutting out saturated fat, by enjoying portobellos
in place of traditional burgers you may help reduce your cancer risk,
as research now shows a convincing link between excess red meat
consumption and colorectal cancer.
Oct 14, 2008 - 8:51:47 PM
Food & Health
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Agri. & Environ.
Texas spinach industry still packing a punch in spite of reduced acreage
Like Popeye after eating a
can of the leafy greens, Texas spinach producers are “pumped up” about
the future of their industry due to its track record of product safety
and increasing consumer demand for high-quality greens, experts said.
Oct 14, 2008 - 5:56:17 PM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
High doses of B vitamins do not help Alzheimer's disease, but use them anyway!
Taking B vitamin supplements like folate, B6 and B12
might not slow mental decline in people with Alzheimer's disease, according to
a study in the Oct. 15 issue of The Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Oct 14, 2008 - 4:05:57 PM
Diet & Health
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Heart & Blood
Majority of American Adults Suffer High Blood Pressure
More
American than ever suffer high blood pressure and more Americans receive
treatment and live rather than died from hypertension, according to a new study
published in the Nov. 2008 issue of hypertension.
Oct 14, 2008 - 2:59:21 PM
Diet & Health
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Children & Women
Children need 400 IUs of Vitamin D daily, physicians now say.
The nation’s top physicians group on Monday recommends
that children from newborns to teens should double their currently recommended
intake of vitamin D because evidence has suggested that the current recommended
dose is too low to prevent some health conditions that would otherwise be
presentable at high intake.
Oct 14, 2008 - 1:14:22 PM
Diet & Health
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Children & Women
Vitamin D insufficiency may lead to bone disease in children
A new
study published in the June 2008 issue of Pediatrics found that insufficiency of
vitamin D was common in pediatric patients with primary and secondary
osteopenia or osteoporosis.
Oct 14, 2008 - 11:49:54 AM
General Health
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Diseases
Prevalence of high blood pressure on the rise in the U.S.
Bad news for today is that more American than ever have
hypertension and high blood pressure and the good news (for business?) is that
more Americans receive treatment and live rather than died from hypertension,
according to a new study published in the Nov. 2008 issue of hypertension.
Oct 14, 2008 - 11:12:52 AM
Food & Health
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Laws & Politics
3 states ask 11 baby product makers not to use bisphenol A
Connecticut
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal along with the Attorneys general from New
Jersey and Delaware on Monday sent a letter to 11 baby bottle and formula
container manufacturers asking them to voluntarily stop using bisphenol A or
BPA in their products because this chemical is potentially harmful to infants.
Oct 14, 2008 - 10:33:43 AM
Diet & Health
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Children & Women
Physicians group says children need 400 IUs of vitamin D a day
The nation’s top physicians organization says it now
recommends that children from newborns to teens should double their intake of
vitamin D because evidence has suggested that the current recommended dose is
too low to prevent some health conditions that would otherwise be presentable
at high intake.
Oct 14, 2008 - 9:38:45 AM
General Health
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Lifestyle
Women with higher education face higher risk for breast cancer
In the
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the campaign organizers and sponsors
want as many women as possible to know the risk of breast cancer in hopes that
more women or even men may go to receive regular screenings for breast cancer.
Oct 14, 2008 - 9:15:29 AM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Drinking alcohol leads to loss of brain volume
An observational study in the October 2008 issue of
Archives of Neurology suggests that drinking alcohol may shrink the brain. But
the clinical significance of this shrinkage remains unknown.
Oct 14, 2008 - 8:07:46 AM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
China tests all milk products for melamine
Six state agencies
in China including the Ministry of Commerce, State Administration of
Industry and Commerce, and The General Administration of Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine on October 11 jointly issued
an urgent order to request merchants nationwide of name brands of
liquid milk products to pull all their products off from store
shelves.
Oct 13, 2008 - 7:24:38 PM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Vitamin D insufficiency linked to Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's
disease may have a lot to do with vitamin D insufficiency, according to a new
study by researchers from Emory University School of Medicine.
Oct 13, 2008 - 3:35:18 PM
Diet & Health
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Cancer
Obesity reduces breast cancer survival odds: study
The study led by Bidoli E and colleagues at Centro
Riferimento Oncologico in Aviano, Italy showed that obesity can be one of the
most significant lifestyle risk factor for prognosis of breast cancer.
Oct 13, 2008 - 1:47:40 PM
Diet & Health
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Cancer
High fat diet means high breast cancer risk
In the
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we will publish a series of reports on studies
and others on the disease to raise readers' awareness of the fact that breast cancer
is a preventable disease.
Oct 13, 2008 - 10:28:11 AM
Food & Health
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Food Chemicals
Pectin power
Scientists have found a new possible explanation for why people who
eat more fruit and vegetables may gain protection against the spread of
cancers.
Oct 13, 2008 - 8:45:45 AM
Food & Health
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Laws & Politics
Collateral Damage: Organic Farmers Being Squeezed Out
Groups representing organic
farmers and their customers are calling on consumers to help save the
organic industry by exclusively patronizing dairies, and other brands,
that uphold the spirit and letter of the federal organic law. They
claim the acquisition of major brands by corporate agribusiness, and
their dependence on factory farms, threatens to force families off the
land and deprive consumers of the superior nutritional food they think
they are paying for.
Oct 13, 2008 - 7:37:03 AM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
China milk as pure as is supposed to be now
China's top quality inspection agency said on Saturday
that the latest samples tested negative for melamine, the industrial chemical
that contaminated milk products in china killing at least 3 infants and
sickened more than 50,000.
Oct 13, 2008 - 7:28:09 AM
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