Nutrition & Diet

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 7 hours ago - 7 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

LIMA, Peru - A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged yesterday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major ... [Philadelphia Inquirer - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Lima (Peru), Peru, Extraction

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 15 Documents (in Health)

Bank of America Corporation

Americans fight obesity

Obesity begone! Americans are lacing up athletic shoes and signing up to run in 5Ks, 10-milers and even marathons in record numbers.In a country often lampooned as populated with obese soda-swilling TV junkies, some 9.2 million people completed a certified ... [iafrica.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Obesity, Bank of America Corporation, American University, United States

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Health)

Nutrisystem pledges $100K for diabetes initiative

Nutrisystem Inc. has pledged up to $100,000 to the American Diabetes Association's Stop Diabetes initiative.The Horsham weight-loss company, which just launched a line of products for people with Type 2 diabetes, said it would donate $5 for each person ... [Philadelphia Inquirer - 7 hours ago]

Entities: NutriSystem Inc, Diabetes, American Diabetes Association

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)

McDonald's Corporation

The horror show in your box of popcorn

Los Angeles - Forget Freddy Krueger or flesh-eating zombies: the real villain of a night at the movies could be lurking in a bag of popcorn or drinks carton, according to a new study in the United States.Nutritional analysis of popcorn servings at some ... [IOL - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Calorie, Saturated Fatty Acids, Sodium, McDonald's Corporation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)

Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes (HealthDay)

THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- While rates of obesity are climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of Appalachia and the Southeast, the reports in its first county-by-county survey.Obesity and diabetes "are basically the two ... [Yahoo! News - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Diabetes, Obesity, Appalachia (United States)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 18 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Health)

Scientists identify and characterize different antioxidant compounds from foods

Scientists at the University of Granada have identified and characterized for the first time different antioxidant compounds from foods such as olive oil, honey, walnuts and a medicinal herb called Teucrium polium. They have used two new techniques, capillary ... [News-Medical.Net - 18 hours ago]

Entities: antioxidant, Teucrium polium, Antonio Segura, Capillary Electrophoresis

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)

Food and Drug Administration

Echo Therapeutics: Positive Developments for Needle-Free Diabetes Monitoring System (BIO, rated BUY)

Echo Therapeutics (OTC: ECTE.OB) is a diabetes management company developing the needle-free Symphony Transdermal Continuous Glucose Monitoring (tCGM) System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal solution for monitoring blood sugar levels and the needle-free ... [SocialPicks - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Diabetes, Therapeutics, Food and Drug Administration

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Health)

Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef

Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives.Ukpong Udofia of the Department of Home Economics at ... [Digital Journal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nutrient, Protein, Archachatina marginata

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Health)

Digital pens improve treatment of acute diabetes at Bethesda Hospital, Stuttgart

Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. Mobile technology is helping patients with acute diabetes manage their illness more effectively so that long-term complications associated with the illness ... [MTB Europe - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Diabetes, Stuttgart (Germany), ANOTO AB

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Inflammation markers and metabolic characteristics of subjects with one-hour plasma glucose levels

Atherosclerosis, 11/13/09 Relevance Score: 98%Gender Medicine, 10/21/09 Relevance Score: 96%Diabetologia - Clinical and Experimental Diabetes and Metabolism, 11/19/09 Relevance Score: 95%Gerontology, 10/21/09 Relevance Score: 95%Obesity, 11/03/09 Relevance ... [MDLinx - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Glucose, Gerontology, Coronary Artery Disease, Metabolism

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Protein motor springs to action

The beamline at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source wasbuilt to do research like this: capture the mechanical motion of importantenzymes as they engage in gene expression and replication. Their new videosimulation was made from information they collected ... [Research & Development - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Protein, Enzyme, Berkeley Lab, Gene Expression

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Diabetes as a Determinant of Mortality in Cystic Fibrosis

Atherosclerosis, 11/13/09 Relevance Score: 81%Diabetes Care, 10/14/09 Relevance Score: 81%Diabetologia - Clinical and Experimental Diabetes and Metabolism, 11/19/09 Relevance Score: 80%Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 10/29/09 Relevance Score: 80%Diabetologia ... [MDLinx - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis, Mortality

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He added: "I would prefer that nothing like this was needed because its horrendous to be that fat, but the council has been sensible about this."

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Irene Rubaum-Keller: What Did You Eat Today? [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 4 hours ago] I help people lose weight. It's what I do professionally and what I have done personally. I lost 50 pounds in 1990 and have kept it off. The most important ...
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