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Eat more ‘superfoods’ to lose weight

By doris | Published: April 10, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — When you’re on a diet, food consumes your life. You can’t eat carbohydrates, so you think about them constantly. You can’t dig into your co-worker’s candy drawer, so M&M’s float across your computer screen like a desert mirage. You skip the bar after work because that’s where the margaritas [...]

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Rose farm helps adults with autism bloom

By doris | Published: April 9, 2012

Full Story at  CNN.com Guilford, Connecticut (CNN) — Tom Pinchbeck never dreamed he’d turn his family rose farm into an employment center for people with autism. In 2008, faced with a sagging U.S. economy and fierce international competition from South American rose growers, Pinchbeck found himself priced out of the market. He had no choice [...]

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America’s Public Schools: Still Unequal and Unjust

By doris | Published: April 8, 2012

Full Story at huffingtonpost.com Millions of children in America are denied the opportunity to receive a fair and high quality education. In March, the U.S. Department of Education released new information showing that children of color face harsher discipline, have less access to rigorous course offerings, and are more often taught by lower paid and [...]

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Ex-California teacher who moved in with student arrested on 1998 molestation charge

By doris | Published: April 7, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Christopher James Hooker, the Modesto, Calif., ex-teacher whose romance with a student drew attention from around the world, was arrested Friday after being charged with one count of oral copulation with a minor in an incident that police said happened 14 years ago, the Modesto Bee reported. The charge stems from [...]

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Wyoming town with 1 resident sold for $900,000

By doris | Published: April 6, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com BUFORD, Wyo. (AP) — Buford is a small place for sure, but so is the world. A remote, unincorporated area along busy Interstate 80 that advertised itself as the smallest town in the United States, Buford was sold at auction for $900,000 on Thursday to an unidentified man from Vietnam. It’s [...]

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Ammonia used in many foods, not just ‘pink slime’

By doris | Published: April 5, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com Surprise rippled across America last month as a new wave of consumers discovered that hamburgers often contained ammonia-treated beef, or what critics dub “pink slime.” What they may not have known is that ammonia – often associated with cleaning products – was cleared by U.S. health officials nearly 40 years ago [...]

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US warns of cancer-agent in Japan weight loss pills

By doris | Published: April 4, 2012

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned consumers not to take a product called “Japan Rapid Weight Loss Diet Pills” because they contain a suspected cancer-causing agent. The pills, advertised as promoting weight loss, are distributed by a company called Xiushentang and sold on popular web sites including Amazon.com, said [...]

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Salmonella in sushi may have sickened 90

By doris | Published: April 3, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Government health officials are investigating a growing outbreak of salmonella food poisoning possibly tied to restaurant sushi that may have sickened at least 90 people in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The outbreak of salmonella Bareilly that may have sent seven people to the hospital is mostly clustered on [...]

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Plane carrying 43 passengers crashes in Siberia

By doris | Published: April 2, 2012

Full Story at WorldNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 8:24 a.m. ET: MOSCOW — Thirty-two people were killed but 11 were rescued alive from a plane crash in Siberia, Russia, an official reportedly said Monday. The ATR 72, a twin-engine, turbo-prop plane, with 43 people aboard, crashed some 18 to 22 miles from the western Siberian city of [...]

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Bugs in sterile drugs? Behind the shortage of critical meds

By doris | Published: April 1, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnb.msn.com In a move that highlights dilemmas plaguing the U.S. drug supply, federal regulators warned a major manufacturer about problems including bugs in vials of sterile drugs — insects, literally — the same day that health officials allowed the firm to ramp up scarce medications for kids with cancer. Food and Drug [...]

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Winning ticket for record Mega Millions jackpot sold in Maryland

By doris | Published: March 31, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Someone in Maryland is about to have a wildly euphoric weekend. A winning ticket for the record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Baltimore County, the Maryland Lottery said Saturday. Lottery officials are waiting for information on potential jackpot winners from other Mega Millions states. The winning [...]

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Honda recalls 554,000 SUVs over headlights

By doris | Published: March 30, 2012

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com When it comes to safety-related quality problems, 2011 wasn’t a good year for Honda, and 2012 isn’t getting off to any better of a start. The Japanese maker, traditionally known for solid reliability, has announced it will recall about 550,000 of its Pilot and CR-V crossover due to problems that could [...]

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Vegans bash Starbucks for beetle coloring in frappuccinos

By doris | Published: March 29, 2012

Full Story at USATODAY.com Starbucks has the vegan community seeing red over what it recently began using to color its Strawberry Frappuccinos: beetles. That’s beetles as in ground up cochineal beetles — mostly found in Mexico and South America. Gross as that may sound, it’s a common, government-approved food coloring used widely throughout the food [...]

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Seven Proven Treatments for Arthritis Pain

By doris | Published: March 28, 2012

Full Story at BetterMedicine.com Arthritis is a general term for more than 100 rheumatic diseases. More than 46 million Americans reported having diagnosed arthritis or chronic joint symptoms in a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Arthritis can affect the joints, muscles, connective tissues, skin and organs. The most obvious [...]

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Airlines successfully hike airfares for third time this year

By doris | Published: March 27, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com Updated March 27, 10:50 a.m. ET — U.S. legacy and low-fare airlines have agreed to increase airfares by up to $10 on roundtrip flights. Airlines have attempted five fare increases so far this year, and three have stuck. In the second quarter of 2011, prices jumped twice, Rick Seaney, CEO of [...]

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FDA: Dissolvable tobacco better for health, but could lead to more users

By doris | Published: March 25, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) A Food and Drug Administration scientific advisory panel says dissolvable tobacco products could reduce health risks compared with smoking cigarettes. But the agency also warned the products have the potential to increase the overall number of tobacco users. Tobacco use claimed 6 million lives in 2011, report showsPICTURES: Shocking ads: [...]

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More grocery chains drop “pink slime” from shelves: What about Wal-Mart?

By doris | Published: March 24, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) The “pink slime” saga continues, but is the meat byproduct soon on its way out? Several of the largest supermarket chains in the country announced this week that they would drop the ammonia-treated meat with the colorful nickname from their shelves. The beef with “pink slime” continues as supermarkets, schools [...]

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Some sausage products recalled for possible listeria

By doris | Published: March 23, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com ELGIN, Texas — Southside Market & Barbeque in Texas has recalled more than a ton of ready-to-eat sausage products due to possible listeria contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says no reports have been received of anyone getting sick from eating items recalled by Southside Market & Barbeque of Elgin, about [...]

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Pharmacies investigated for price gouging of scarce drugs

By doris | Published: March 22, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are investigating three shadowy pharmacies in Maryland and North Carolina for diverting critical but scarce drugs from patients to wholesalers, who are then able to resell the medicine at sometimes big markups. Elijah Cummings, the senior Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, began a [...]

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Girl’s best friend is dog who carries her oxygen

By doris | Published: March 21, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com Two years ago Aaron and Debbie Knobloch learned that their baby daughter Alida was suffering from a rare lung disease and that she would need a portable oxygen tank to help her breathe. The good news was that the oxygen tank would make their little girl healthy. The bad news was [...]

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