Picture this: The year is 2030 and you´re at the annual family reunion. It´s you and 99 of your dearest loved ones. Glancing around, you see people laughing, dancing, and barbequing. Then you notice something that isn´t so rosy. Only 14 people out of the entire bunch are at a healthy weight.
Think having 86% of your extended family labeled as fat is farfetched? It isn´t. A recent study at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Read the rest of this entry »
Which diet will win the fight? Battle of the Diet Plans
three studies were talked about trying to establish, once and for all, the best way to drop pounds. Naomi Barr has the results. You can read about all the diets: South Beach, Zone, Ornish, Low Fat, Low Carb on and on and on.
A low-carb diet consistently produced the greatest weight loss, so this plan—combined with exercise—seems to be a good place to start. “I’m a proponent of Read the rest of this entry »
Shares of Apple took a hit Thursday at the market open, falling 5.7 percent as investors demonstrated their anxiety about the company following the news that
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Apple opened at $80.50 a share in morning trading, down from its close of $85.33 a share Wednesday.
While number of Wall Street analysts predicted Apple can remain on track with its deep executive bench, investors remain skeptical whether the company’s vision and momentum can remain should Read the rest of this entry »
At the end of a residential cul-de-sac in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, a driveway winds up a hill to the headquarters of Ocean Nutrition, a complex of buildings of mid-century vintage overlooking the tall-masted schooners and gray-hulled Canadian Navy destroyers in Halifax Harbour.
Down the road, semi-trailers loaded with drums of oily yellow liquid pull up outside a newly built factory. Inside cavernous galvanized-steel hangars, the oil is blended with Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 07, 2008 (Tonawanda News – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
— Baby Boomers amuse younger generations with their communication style, because they are quick to say everything is fine, even when it isn’t, according to a keynote speaker set to address a women’s healthcare conference Saturday.
“The next generation believes that you should say what you mean and mean what you say,” said Faith Roberts, a parish nurse and featured Read the rest of this entry »
Published February 21, 2009
A Dawson man remained in the DeKalb County Jail on Friday after his arrest on drug charges.
DeKalb County sheriffs deputies and Drug Task Force agents searched a home on Road 9014 after hearing that the residence was used in trafficking methamphetamine. A resident of the home, Juan Coronado, also was wanted on a state warrant for a probation violation in connection with a 2006 distribution case.
Coronado, 43, also Read the rest of this entry »
The latest Chrome and Firefox versions edged ahead in performance, but Chrome edged more. Could Google’s Native Client project make the test obsolete?
On December 9, 1968, SRI’s Douglas Engelbart unveiled the computer mouse, hyperlinks, and navigable windows, in an event seen by many as one of the most important in the history of technology.
Owners of the newly redesigned MacBooks and MacBook Pros are reporting issues with video playback and memory Read the rest of this entry »
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The University of Minnesota thinks it has jabbed its way into the record books.
More than 60 trained personnel dispensed 11,538 flu shots during a nine-hour period Tuesday at four locations around the campus in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
They hope that puts them in the Guinness World Records book for the most flu shots given in a single day. The old record was 3,271, set in November of 2006 in Sanford, Fla.
The official Read the rest of this entry »
Health groups are fuming at Hollywood’s continued taste for smoking.
A new study by the American Medical Association Alliance, the volunteer branch of the AMA, finds that over the past six years more than half of the movies geared toward children feature characters smoking. In more than a quarter of the movies, actors light up cigars.
And officials say the Motion Picture Association of America has failed to deliver on its vow last year to weigh Read the rest of this entry »
Susan Lark, MD Debuts 'Beauty Corner' Feature in Women's Wellness Today
Susan Lark, MD, noted medical researcher and women's health practitioner, is proud to introduce a new feature called “Beauty Corner” in her monthly health and lifestyle newsletter, Women's Wellness Today.
Potomac, Md. (
) December 11, 2008 –
, noted medical researcher and women's health practitioner, is proud to introduce a new feature called Read the rest of this entry »