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By Zhang Feng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-12-09 06:05
Chicken and other poultry carry no risk of passing on bird flu to people if cooked properly, according to a recent joint statement by world health leaders.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) offered the advice to national food safety authorities amid...
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Add comment December 9th, 2005
JO EWART MACKENZIE
THE British organic egg market is booming. According to the Soil Association’s Organic Market Report 2005, published earlier this year, the sector is worth £17 million annually, with some egg packers reporting double-figure sales increases to the big retailers during 2004.
However, the growing army of converts could face problems finding home-grown...
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By Caroline E. Mayer
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Advertising junk food on television has enticed children into eating massive amounts of unhealthful food, leading to a sharp increase in obesity and diabetes, according to a report issued Tuesday by a prestigious national science advisory panel.
The Institute of Medicine, a government-chartered institution...
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(Reuters)
7 December 2005
WASHINGTON - Most food and drink advertising to children promotes unhealthy choices and the government should step in if the industry fails to improve the situation, an experts’ report said on Tuesday.
“There is strong evidence that television advertising influences the diets of children” said Dr. Michael McGinnis, a senior scholar...
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12/07/2005
The Asahi Shimbun
The government Monday will lift the two-year ban on U.S. beef imports despite consumers’ doubts that U.S. measures can eliminate the risk of meat tainted by mad cow disease.
Officials said once the decision is finalized Monday, importers will be allowed to start buying U.S. beef, making it available to Japanese consumers around...
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(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-12-06 09:18
Previous reports have shown that early dietary interventions can improve cholesterol levels in children, and now new research adds to this by showing that blood-vessel function is also enhanced, at least in boys.
The findings, which appear in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation, are based on a study of...
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December 6, 2005
BY JANET RAUSA FULLER Staff Reporter
One of the most popular items on the children’s menu at Chicago’s Wishbone restaurant is something called the Rabbit Patch — a choice of three sides from a vegetable-heavy list of more than a dozen offerings, plus a corn muffin.
Co-owner Guy Nickson said kids who order the dish tend to...
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By Jessica Heslam
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Mothers who frown upon those extra pounds take note: Add comment December 7th, 2005
Youngsters whose moms worry about their kids’ weight are more likely to diet and obsess about being thin, a new Hub study found.
But don’t just blame mother. Thin celebrities and peers had a bigger influence on the youngsters’ diet and desire to be skinny.
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By Katherine Hobson / US News and World Report
Pick your point of view: Salt is a poison that brings on high blood pressure, which in turn kills via heart attack and stroke. Or, salt is no big deal. It raises blood pressure in only some people, and for everyone else there’s no reason to cut it from your...
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By Alice Lesch Kelly and Rosie Mestel / Los Angeles Times
Tea, to China’s 18th-century Emperor Chien Lung, was more than a whistle-wetting pick-me-up: It was “that precious drink which drives away the five causes of sorrow.”
Western businesses are banking on our buying into Chien Lung’s...
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Laboratory research indicates that cholesterol plays a role in the development of the waxy deposits, or plaques, that clump together in the brain and characterize Alzheimer’s. Leaping from the petri dish to the body, might lowering cholesterol through medication affect the development of the disease?
This study monitored the progression of dementia in 342 people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. About 68 percent of them had high cholesterol, and more than half of that group...
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By a correspondent
HYDERABAD: Properly cooked chicken are safe to eat with no threat of bird flu virus said a joint statement by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) specialized body of United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued to national food safety authorities across the globe.
“However, no birds from infested flocks should enter the food...
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Add comment December 6th, 2005
Children who are overweight face more than future health problems. They appear to have broken bones and joint problems more often during childhood than kids of normal weight, research suggests.
“A lot of people think that if you’re an overweight kid … that later on in life you’re going to run into having heart disease or Type 2 diabetes,” said Dr. Susan...
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05.12.05
By Martin Johnston
Sugar-laden Sprite will be scratched off the drinks menu at 21 McDonald’s outlets in a bid to help curb diabetes.
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Press Association
Monday December 5, 2005 3:08 AM
Drinking alcohol in small amounts regularly could mean you are less likely to become obese than if you do not drink at all, new research suggests.
The US study, published in the journal BMC Public Health, may appear to contradict the traditional image of the beer belly often found attached to those who like a...
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