OMAHA (AP) The nation’s largest microwave popcorn maker, ConAgra Foods, says it will change the recipe for its Orville Redenbacher and Act II brands over the next year to remove a flavoring chemical linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers.
ConAgra spokeswoman Stephanie Childs said the company decided to remove diacetyl (die-ASS-eh-til) […]
SAN FRANCISCO Nice work if you can get it. That’s the consensus of fairly affluent, well-educated fathers who stay home full time with their children, according to a pioneering study released over the weekend.
About 159,000 men in the USA are full-time fathers, more than triple the number a decade ago, Census data show. […]
ATLANTA An Atlanta lawyer undergoing treatment for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, XDR-TB, in Denver has a form of the disease that is less drug-resistant and more curable than previously reported, doctors said Tuesday.
Officials at National Jewish Medical and Research Center said multiple tests done there indicate Andrew Speaker’s TB will respond to some of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) Loosen the belt buckle another notch America: Obesity rates continued their climb in 31 states last year. No state showed a decline.
Mississippi became the first state to crack the 30% barrier for adult residents considered to be obese. West Virginia and Alabama are just slightly behind, according to the Trust for […]
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Schoolchildren could be locked in at lunchtime to prevent them heading for chip shops and burger joints to buy junk food.
Education chiefs in Denbighshire are frustrated that pupils have turned up their noses at the healthy menus introduced last year. They hope that by locking the school gates, youngsters will have no choice […]
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