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School Nutrition Experts Call For Child Nutrition Funding And Uniform Nutrition Standards (Medical News Today)
Early next month, more than 700 school nutrition professionals will discuss the crisis in funding for school meal programs and urge the Congress to require science-based, yet practical, uniform national school nutrition standards to govern the sale of all foods and beverages available during the school day.
Farm Bill Provision Will Disrupt Maryland’s Women, Infant and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
A survey released today by Spectrum Science Communications states that a little known anti-privatization measure in the current farm bill would critically harm Maryland’s ability to effectively administer its Women, Infant and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition program. The measure, offered as an amendment to the House-passed Farm Bill by Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA), would restrict all states from …
International nutrition conference to be held in Hanoi (Nh n D n)
Around 300 experts from 45 countries will gather in Hanoi on March 3 to attend the 35th Session of the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition.
Nutrition for Life (Leesburg Today)
(Family Features) - Have you ever tried eating smart? It’s not just about making savvy nutrition choices like opting for whole grain over white, steamed over fried, or baked over saut ed. It’s about boosting your eating knowledge to reap rewards that go beyond losing weight or reducing health risks.
MSU Hosts Nutrition Fair (KEYC Mankato)
Minnesota State University held a Nutrition Fair today.Student Health Servi
The Campaign / Clinton targets kids’ nutrition (Pioneer Press)
HANGING ROCK, Ohio Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a plan to improve childhood nutrition and set a goal to reduce by half the 12 million youngsters living in poverty in the next dozen years. The package of proposals includes a comprehensive early education initiative that starts with nurse’s visits for pregnant women, lets children begin the Head Start program earlier and calls for universal …
Dorgan asks for rationale for GF nutrition lab closing (Grand Forks Herald)
North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan submitted a series of questions today about the proposed closing of the USDA's Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks during a hearing of the U.S. Senate's Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee. Advertisement: Crosstown Lounge Crosstown Lounge | Drink Specials Happy Hour until 7pm, nightly specials TBA
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Seems Like Everyone Is On a Diet (PageSix.com)
Anna Paquin is gearing up for her return to the spotlight. We caught her in a Slim-Fast chugfest yesterday after picking up a can at her local L.A. grocery store. The 25-year-old Oscar winner has been shedding the pounds while shooting her new HBO series True Blood, in which she plays an innocent mind-reading barmaid who falls in love with a local Louisiana vampire. After the jump, take …
Dog on Diet Drug Loses 9 Pounds (FOX 26 Houston)
Three weeks ago, FOX 26 introduced viewers to an 11-year-old dog with an ageless problem–his weight. Did a new prescription diet drug help him? FOX 26’s Pattie Shieh reports.
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Doctor rejects cadavers from China for Bodies exhibit (The Beaver County Times)
NEW YORK The doctor behind the Body Worlds exhibits that show cadavers in different poses says he has stopped using bodies from China for fear that some of them may be executed prisoners, ABC News reported on Friday.
UTMB presents Doctor s Dilemma’ (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON Dr. C. Joan Richardson, chief of medical staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch, will join seven other UTMB faculty members and six medical and graduate students in a dramatic reading of George Bernard Shaw s The Doctor s Dilemma on Nov. 20.
Doctor thrown off Ryanair flight ‘for talking’ (Daily Telegraph)
A doctor is threatening to take Ryanair to court after he was thrown off a flight for chatting during the pre-flight safety briefing.
Keep taking your tablets: Ulster doctor (Belfast Telegraph)
A leading Ulster doctor today urged people taking anti-depressants not to stop the treatment in the wake of recent doubts about their effectiveness.
Doctor’s dodgy past unveiled (The Courier Mail)
THE state’s bumbling health authorities allowed a previously jailed doctor with a drinking problem to operate on 17 women without checking his past.
No checks done on banned doctor (Sydney Morning Herald)
A DEREGISTERED doctor was able to illegally attend 36 obstetric patients at two South Coast public hospitals - despite being banned from the specialty five years earlier - because the NSW Health Department failed to conduct background checks on him.
Strike force to probe ‘genital mutilation’ doctor (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Police have set up a strike force to investigate allegations a former New South Wales doctor sexually abused women and mutilated their genitals during operations.
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‘Mutilation’ doctor probe (Sydney Morning Herald)
Strike force to investigate complaints of some of the 800 women allegedly mutilated by struck-off doctor.
NSW suspends Czech-trained doctor (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The New South Wales Medical Board has suspended an overseas-trained doctor who is facing several malpractice allegations in New Zealand.
‘Mutilation doctor’ complaints surge (The Age)
Board defends handling of doctor despite almost 800 complaints.
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Tonight at Ten - The High Carb Diet (KAKE)
The hottest fad in weight loss has dieters doing a 180 from a few years ago - instead of no-carbs, some Kansans are packing on the carbs to drop the pounds and getting great results. Tonight at ten: KAKE’s Susan Peters dishes up the skinny on the new road to thin - The Hi Carb Diet.
Judge to dole out diet-drug settlement (Louisville Courier-Journal)
James McPherson has a litany of complaints about the three lawyers who handled a $200 million settlement over the diet drug fen-phen on behalf of him and more than 400 others. "I don’t think this has ever been fair and I don’t think it ever can be," McPherson said.
Diet change gives hyperactive kids new taste for life in Norway (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tears streak Rita’s cheek as she recalls what it was like trying to figure out what was wrong with her son more than a decade ago, but she breaks into a smile when she explains how changing his diet made all the difference.
Pfizer pulls Lipitor ads featuring artificial heart inventor (The Pantagraph)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When “diet and exercise isn’t enough,” Pfizer still wants consumers to ask their doctor about Lipitor just not Dr. Robert Jarvik.
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Nutrition for Life (McKinney Messenger)
(Family Features) - Have you ever tried eating smart? It’s not just about making savvy nutrition choices like opting for whole grain over white, steamed over fried, or baked over saut ed. It’s about boosting your eating knowledge to reap rewards that go beyond losing weight or reducing health risks.
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