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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Sep 27, 2011


Changing the World of Science
R & D Magazine
Thats where Microsoft Research can help. Its researchers are working on tools that can help scientists manage big data and glean new insights in areas such as genetic studies, high-performance computing, and the environment Computer scientists at ...
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New research to help curb osteoporosis
Voxy
Professor Marlena Kruger, from the Institute of Food Nutrition and Human Health, has been awarded $500000 in funding for the study by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Japan Scienceand Technology Agency. The Japanese research partner is ...
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Family-Friendly Science
Inside Higher Ed
Elaine Ecklund, associate professor of sociology at Rice University, co-author of last month's studyon science and parenthood, and author of several other studies of women and science, called Monday's announcement "huge news. ...
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Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Awards
Press Information Bureau (press release)
CSIR Young Scientist Awards seek to promote in- house excellence in various fields of science andtechnology. CSIR scientist, below 35 years of age, as reckoned on 26 September (CSIR Fondation Day) of the preceding year, is eligible for the Award. ...
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Research Funding at Emory University Reaches Nearly $540M in FY11
Woodruff Health Sciences Center
More than $1.6 million from the NSF and NASA as part of the Emory-Georgia Tech Center for Chemical Evolution, a research and education effort for evolution at a chemical level. • $300000 from NASA to the Department of Chemistry for a study of the raw ...
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Tallying the Toll of US-China Trade
Wall Street Journal
New research suggests the damage to the US has been deeper than these economists have supposed. The study, conducted by a team of three economists, doesn't challenge the traditional view that trade is ultimately good for the economy. ...
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Wall Street Journal
President Hennessy discusses the vision for Stanford in New York City
Stanford University News
I'm convinced that this country's leadership position in science and technology will be jeopardized if we cannot grow more major institutions and produce more graduates inscience and technology. That's a key goal from our perspective and very much in ...
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Stanford University News
Despite New Challengers, US Remains World's Most Competitive Country in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
27, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EIU study finds developing nations beginning to close the gap Even while grappling with a multi-year economic downturn, the United States ranks as the world's most competitive country in information technology, ...
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These toppers are no bookworms
Times of India
While Jayalakshmi is pursuing her M.Tech in metallurgy from IIT, Chennai, Aslam is doing his M.Tech in Geo-Technology at IIT, Mumbai. Both vowed to come back to teaching after their PGstudies. For Jayalakshmi, teaching runs in her family as her ...
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Bold Approach Could Change Electronics Industry
UC Riverside
The researchers will receive $1.3 million in funding from the National ScienceFoundation and $200000, as a gift, from the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, a technology research consortium whose members ...
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UC Riverside
September-October New Products
Bio-IT World
MedNet Solutions announced the latest release of iMedNet EDC, the company's eClinical solution that allows non-technical research personnel to quickly, easily, and affordably build and manage their own clinical studies. iMedNet EDC makes EDC practical ...
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A delegation from Kuwait visits Ajman University of Science and Technology
AME Info
Ajman University of Science and Technology (AUST) has recently received a delegation from the Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education, which paid a visit to AUST College of Pharmacy and Health sciences. The aim of the visit, which took place as the number ...
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Study: Shoppers prefer customer service to self-checkout
USA Today
He's not the typical shopper, though, according to research. While some chains are reducing their self-serve options, others say they're keeping it in place along with the traditional lanes because they think giving shoppers that choice is an important ...
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USA Today
Striving to defang the poisoned chalice
The Hindu
The growth in toxicology research has interesting dimensions. Classical studies in animal experimentation gave way to “omic” technologies in the interdisciplinary area of biology. (“Omics” represents a collection of newfangled or newest technologies). ...
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The Hindu
Elderly Women Who Break a Hip at Increased Risk of Dying Within a Year
Sacramento Bee
26, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Women ages 65-69 who break a hip are five times more likely to die within a year than women of the same age who don't break a hip, according to a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study funded by the National ...
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Vermillion Enhances Management Team With A Key Addition
PR Newswire (press release)
Dr. Munroe, age 54, has extensive experience in the diagnostic industry, and has been a key member of senior management in a number of prominent diagnostic and life science companies. He served as Vice President, Immunoassay Research and Development ...
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New £100m vet study centre opens
BBC News
The new vet school building will allow the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies to increase its undergraduate intake to 180 students. The building has a 200-seat lecture theatre fitted with multi-media technology, a library, restaurant, ...
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BBC News
Mutation Cuts Steroid Response in Asthma
MedPage Today
Therefore, the results may not be generalizable to other racial/ethnic groups. The analysis was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Science and Technology of Japan. The individual studies from ...
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Major New Research from Nine Key Industry Stakeholders to Premiere at IAB MIXX ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The original studies will be unveiled throughout the two-day conference, October 3-4, in New York, and in a newly designed track devoted exclusively to breaking research. The insights garnered from these studies underscore the theme of the MIXX ...
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Study finds potential in social media tools for smoking cessation
Healthcare IT News
The study results were released by the University of Southern California's Institute for CommunicationTechnology Management (CTM) and the USC Center for Body Computing (CBC). Researchers surveyed 266 users of LIVESTRONG.COM's MyQuit Coach, a mobile ...
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Imbizo - My Debate: Reclaiming African scholarly output and space
The New Age Online
According to the University of Leiden's Centre for Science and Technology Studies, sub-Saharan Africa's share of world science (as measured in the number of papers published in the citation indexes of the Institute of Scientific Information) stood at ...
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Interim UNR President Marc Johnson offers optimistic remarks
Reno Gazette-Journal
This University has been blessed with prior visions, timing, and philanthropic support to bring new facilities on line in medical research, health sciences education, and math and science education. We see this in faculty and student support facilities ...
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New science standards in the works
Rapid City Journal
(Ryan Soderlin/Journal staff) With the help of South Dakota teachers, national science teaching recommendations should soon catch up with the rapidly changing world of science and technology. A National Research Council committee in July released a ...
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Space debris expert available to discuss falling satellite
The Rolla Daily News
Schonberg is chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University ofScience and Technology and is part of a National Research Council panel that studies the impact of space debris.
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Health Industry Under-Prepared To Protect Patient Privacy; Risk
Healthcare Technology Online (press release)
The most frequently reported issue among health insurers and pharmaceutical and life sciencecompanies was the improper transfer of files containing personal health information to unauthorized parties. Over the past two years, one in five (21 percent) ...
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NJIT BPA researchers to receive council honor
EurekAlert (press release)
Recent studies have shown the widespread presence of tiny amounts of BPA in the environment. Even at minute levels BPA may still exert estrogen-like effects on living organisms. NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, enrolls more than ...
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CDS offers JNU-affiliated doctoral programme in economics
Hindu Business Line
As for financial assistance, an Indian Council of Social Science Research fellowship at the rate of Rs 16000 a month may be availed of. The Junior Research Fellowship and Rajiv Gandhi National Fellow under the University Grants Commission are also ...
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VistaGen Therapeutics Reports Advances in Its Pancreatic Cell and Regenerative ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The stem cell-derived pancreatic cells developed by the international research team demonstrated the ability to produce and correctly process insulin and secrete C-peptide, characteristics of mature beta-islet cells. These studies confirm the utility ...
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TNS Uses Acquia Commons to Build Award-Winning Mercedes-Benz Social Community ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TNS won the Best Study 2011 award from the German Association for Marketing and SocialResearch for the development of the Mercedes-Benz site. The award honors innovative and creative new studies in the field, with special attention on projects with ...
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Invoke Solutions Releases 2011 Annual Holiday Shopping Report
PR Web (press release)
Results from a recent study among consumers shed light on how Americans intend to celebrate and shop this holiday season. Invoke Solutions recently conducted one of its 'Invoke Live!' research studies with 110 American consumers to inform its 2011 ...
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SEEC microscopy reveals unexpected labelled lipid behavior on solid surface
Nanowerk LLC
(Nanowerk News) A research group from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany reports in Langmuir how SEEC microscopy can be used to provide a plausible scenario as to the behaviour of labelled lipids at a surface ("Comparative Height ...
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants More Than $6 Million to Michigan Scientists ...
MarketWatch (press release)
$180000 grant for research by Heang-Ping Chan, Ph.D., and Yao Lu, Ph.D., who are seeking methods to increase the sensitivity of 3-D screening technology to more accurately detect small lesions in the breast and potentially detect breast tumors sooner. ...
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For local news, TV is dominant but the Internet is our digital future
O'Reilly Radar
The economics and the medium don't support using limited time to cover topics that aren't popular, as the report discusses: Past PEJ studies have found that local newspapers typically have 70 to 100 stories a day. The typical half-hour local TV ...
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Alnylam Initiates Phase I Clinical Study of ALN-PCS, an RNAi Therapeutic ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The start of this trial also marks an important milestone in our Alnylam 5x15 product efforts, as it is the first program using our second generation lipid nanoparticle technology to enter clinical testing, where we aim to have important safety, ...
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Infection, Not Vaccination, May Be Culprit in Post-H1N1 Narcolepsy
Internal Medicine News Digital Network
This study was supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation of China, the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technologycommission, and by the Veterans Administration Research Service. ...
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Intercell Is in Exploratory Talks With Private Equity, CEO Says
BusinessWeek
The company cut research and development costs by 58 percent in the first half and fired about 20 percent of its employees. Intercell took back rights to the traveler's diarrhea vaccine patchtechnology it had licensed to GlaxoSmithKline Plc after last ...
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Gas Station TV and Wayne Align to Launch inOvationTV(SM) With Wayne Investment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
GSTV's Nielsen and retailer research studies have shown that GSTV programming and retailer promotions deliver significant increases in returning customers, customer conversion from the forecourt to the c-store, c-store sales lift, and fuel sales lift. ...
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Chapter 4 Crit. 1 Component D
Valley City State University
... graduate program and the change of the Education "division" to a "School" of Education and Graduate Studies, just as it reviewed the proposed Fisheries and Wildlife Science major, or the addition of the Prairie Waters Education and ResearchCenter. ...
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Valley City State University
Bollywood Stars Film at Trinity College Dublin
Great Reporter
Students are studying at the undergraduate as well as at the postgraduate level in taught andresearch programmes. The popular areas of study include business, engineering, computerscience, and health sciences. There is also a growing interest in ...
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diaDexus Appoints New CEO Brian E. Ward, Ph.D. and New CBO Michael Richey
MarketWatch (press release)
He has a BS in Laboratory Science from the University of Oklahoma. Separately, Dr. Ward said a $5 million debt facility provided by Comerica Bank had been completed and funded, bringing the company's current balance of cash and investments to ...
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3 local schools receive Dominion grant
WAVY-TV
... and interactive enhancements, like geospatial technology and field trips to local research sites. Perquimans Central School in Winfall, North Carolina will use its $7500 to support a program called "Science Through the Eyes of First Graders. ...
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Refractive surgery technology advances may expand options for surgeons, patients
OSN SuperSite
If you had a technology that allowed for rapid visual recovery after surface ablation, that could be a game changer and make it gain further popularity,” Dr. Trattler said. Dr. Durrie and his research team are working on ways to reduce PRK recovery ...
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Clinical Data Published in Vaccine Demonstrate Robust Immune Response With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Agenus plans to advance HerpV into a Phase 2 study in 2012 that will measure the effect of vaccination on viral shedding in individuals infected with HSV-2. Experts in HSV-2 clinical researchbelieve that a reduction in viral shedding could translate ...
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Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2011 March;58(3):463-467; doi 10.1109/TBME.2010.2089522. Intellectual Property: HHS Reference E-250-2011/0--Research Tool. Patent protection is not being pursued for this technology. Licensing Contact: Michael Shmilovich, Esq.; ...
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Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Imaged Swifter and Safer with New Technology
Newswise (press release)
The purchase of the imaging technology - developed by Siemens Health Care - was possible through CNRM, which is a Department of Defense-funded collaboration launched in 2008 between the USU and the NIH to carry out research in TBI and PTSD that would ...
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Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News
New York Times
Mary A. Carskadon, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, directs studies of adolescents in the sleep research lab at the EP Bradley Hospital in Providence. Michael Appleton for The New York Times First graders in New York ...
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New York Times
Belfer Center welcomes new research fellows | Belfer In The News
By belferinthenews
While the Belfer Center is the hub of research, teaching, and training in international security affairs and diplomacy, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflictstudies at Harvard Kennedy School, the heart ...
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Science and Technology Directory (Studies, Technology Studies ...
Includes Science and Technology Studies, Mathematics, Careers, Girls, Scientific , ... Explores the ethical dimension of scientific research and technology: ethical ... News, publications, conferences, and case studies about using technology in ...
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HEALTH News, Fitness, Wellness, Diets, Sep 27, 2011


Maryland ranks at the top for brain health
Baltimore Sun (blog)
... Majid Fotuhi chairman of the Neurology Institute for Brain Health and Fitness and an assistant professor of neurology at John Hopkins School of Medicine. The 21 factors included diet, exercise, mention health, physical health and social well-being. ...
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Diet, fitness tips for jam-packed moms
abc7.com
Moms are especially susceptible, so two health experts decided to give the "woman of the house" more energy. "I'm a full-time mom," said single mom Migdalia Aguirre. "I have three kids, I have a full-time job." Like many parents Aguirre is running on ...
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abc7.com
Zeo sleep manager goes right to the phone
mobihealthnews
Fitness and diet partners have also joined Zeo in the growing connected wellness movement to expand health measurement into total management. Zeo Sleep Manager data will be linked to a variety of health and fitness applications, including DailyBurn,...
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mobihealthnews
Diet Review Site Provides Unbiased Reviews of the Most Popular Diets on the ...
SBWire (press release)
It offers reviews, articles, and professional testimonials from fitness enthusiasts that have personally tried out the programs. “Our health & fitness experts have provided unbiased reviews and have actually experienced using the diets/programs listed ...
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Emanuel wants city workers to be big losers
Chicago Tribune
Guided by online resources his employer provides as part of its wellness program, Gountanis embarked on a diet-and-exercise regimen. One year later, the 6-foot-2-inch former athlete is down to his college weight of 220 and has lowered his blood ...
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Chicago Tribune
Sharecare Powers "The Dr. Oz Show's" Season Long Contest "Dr. Oz's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The seven steps that need to be completed in order to be eligible for the prize include: weighing in with Weight Watchers and calculating your BMI, finding out your family's health history, getting more sleep, assessing your stress, adding fitness to ...
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Free dietitian provides healthy options on campus
College Heights Herald
Alissa Arnold, coordinator of Student Wellness, and Todd Misener, assistant director of Health andFitness, both help run the WellU program and say that having a free full-time registered dietitian on campus can really benefit students. ...
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Celebrity to share story of becoming a diabetic
Bradenton Herald
Diabetes requires a careful balance of diet, exercise, medication and medical care. His diabetes also prompted the vibrant entertainer to go on a mission: Educate Americans with diabetes so that they can control their disease and live a healthy life. ...
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Bradenton Herald
Getting your groove back at 60
TODAYonline
Stay healthy through a good diet and physically active lifestyle. Chronic diseases, and certain medications, interfere with your sex drive. 3. Modulate your hormones through your diet. Refined sugars and carbs bulks up the abdominal fat, ...
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Where in the world is 'Today' show's Natalie Morales?
Palm Beach Post
"I try to eat as clean a diet as possible. But that doesn't mean I won't have a doughnut or two when they're in the office." Morales didn't live full-time in the US until she attended Rutgers University. After college, as Morales' journalism career ...
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Exercise could ease Arthritis even without Weight Loss
Ivanhoe
The findings add to a growing body of research exploring fitness vs. fatness. Ongoing studies at Duke and elsewhere are examining the role of diet, exercise and inflammatory diseases. The study is now being done on humans.
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Extreme Health Weekend to help support local groups
Red Bluff Daily News
Seminars and discussions will cover a wide range of topics, from sports and orthopedics to properdiet, nutrition and recommended fitness training. This will be the first major event in the North State bringing together the entire health, wellness and ...
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Health News
MSN NZ News
All latest health news from across New Zealand and around the world. We'll be covering topics from the latest fitness, diet and nutrition news to family, women and men's health plus pregnancy, beauty, natural therapies and mental health. ...
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MSN NZ News
Nissan Teams Up With Levi Leipheimer's King Ridge GranFondo Event
PR Newswire (press release)
The program aims to help athletes take their performance to a new level through health and fitness"Innovators" who offer state-of-the-art tips on the "Innovation for Endurance" Facebook page. To learn more about the Innovation for Endurance program, ...
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Keeping fit for you and your baby
Shields Gazette
Never is a woman's health under the spotlight more than when she is pregnant. Long gone are the days of being able to 'eat for two' and get away with it – the focus now is on eating a healthy, balanced diet and keeping active to maintain a healthy ...
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Shields Gazette
Phuket's 'Tri Tim' - the surprises of dedication
Phuket Gazette
Also, the knowledge Darren has passed on to me regarding how the body deals with exercise and the effect of diets has been huge. That's my first piece of advice for anyone who wants to take a serious stab at improving their health and fitness. ...
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Phuket Gazette
With daytime soaps out of way, ABC's 'The Chew' premieres
Washington Post (blog)
“The Chew” stars celebrity chef Mario Batali (Food Network's “Iron Chef America”), former Silver Spring caterer and Bravo “Top Chef” fan fave Carla Hall, Michael Symon (Food Network's “Iron Chef America”), “The Dorm Room Diet” author Daphne Oz (aka ...
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Kids soccer club bans sugary sports drinks
Irish Health
Prof O'Shea said he is making a submission to the Broadcasting Authority calling for the banning of all advertisements for food and drinks high in fat, sugar and salt from the 6am-9pm 'watershed', in order to protect the diet and health of children.
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Cox: Young vets hold key to Leaf season
Toronto Star
He's 20 pounds lighter, down from 235 at the conclusion of last year, his diet and fitness so improved he finds workouts and games far less tiring. He may have bought a townhouse in the city and a plush new home entertainment system with his new ...
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For a Healthier Lifestyle: Weight Loss Programs That Fit
ClimbTheNet
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Salads and whole-grain sandwiches replace pizza and french fries
Seaforth Huron Expositor
He misses the fries, regular cola instead of the diet choices that now line the fridges, and the oversize cookies. "I'm a little upset with it, yeah. They don't really have anything good," Frazer said. "Before, there would be a line halfway down the ...
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Collins fights to keep potatoes in school lunches — Health & Fitness ...
By UnBylined
... obituaries. The Bangor Daily News is your source for breaking news in Maine and up-to-the-second election results. ... Playing outside would go a LONG way to better heath now and a better diet would be great for the long term. Anonymous ...
Bangor Daily News
Trisha made me do it – the Cabbage Soup Diet — Celebrities ...
By Kim
Celebrities, Current Events, Health & Fitness, Northwest Indiana Mom Blog ... Ironically I'm at the weight that I REACHED doing this diet the first time with Trisha last year, 159.2. ... The bad news is that I'm eating cabbage soup all week. ...
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Health News - Medicine, Diet, Fitness and Parenting from Health ...
Health News - Medicine, Diet, Fitness and Parenting from Health News Today. Discover the latest news and video about health. Health News Today covers diet, ...
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Depression After Cancer Keeps Some From Follow-Up Care ...
Atlanta health, diet and fitness news | ajc.com. Get your Atlanta's health news and resources onfitness, nutrition, depression, healthcare, drugs, pregnancy, ...
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