As the end of the year approaches, many start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. Losing weight is a perennial favorite, and the diet industry is well aware of this. Ads for prepackaged food plans, diet pills, exercise equipment and gym memberships abound in print and on the air waves this time of year. Unfortunately, most of them will not help you lose weight, and some are an outright rip off.
Dr. Barry Groves, author of Eat Fat Get Thin and Read the rest of this entry »

Travis, the chimpanzee which viciously attacked and “ripped off the face” of a woman, may have been on drugs at the time.
The owner of the domesticated animal, who was shot dead by police, claimed she had given Travis some Xanax just a few minutes before the attack in Connecticut that nearly killed her friend.
that she had put Xanax in some tea she made for her pet because he was being rowdy. She later denied her earlier statement and said that Read the rest of this entry »

The list of victims who have fallen prey to Bernie Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme is growing longer by the day. Among its victims are countless nonprofit organizations, ranging from Yeshiva University and Tufts University to the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System Foundation.
Now at least one attorney general is asking for records to determine if trustees sitting on nonprofit boards failed to perform their fiduciary responsibility Read the rest of this entry »