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Smart Turkey Day Tips

The holiday season is a time for family, friends, gift-giving and 3,000-calorie meals. This year, give yourself something to be thankful for by not trashing your diet in one gluttonous month of turkey, eggnog and pies.
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The Danger of Not Eating Tuna

By Sora Song
In recent years, the last word on the dangers of eating mercury-rich fish seemed to be the government’s well-publicized 2004 «www.epa.gov», which recommended against eating too much higher mercury fish like white tuna, but whose warning applied only to pregnant or nursing women, women of childbearing age and young children. Though mercury […]

Use of N-Acetyl Cysteine for the Treatment of Parenteral Nutrition-induced Liver Disease in Children Receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition.

Use of N-Acetyl Cysteine for the Treatment of Parenteral Nutrition-induced Liver Disease in Children Receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition.
Case Reports Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition. 46(2):220-223, February 2008.
Mager, Diana R *; Marcon, Margaret *,++,[P]; Wales, Paul ++; Pencharz, Paul B *,++,[S],[P]

Bird flu found on German farm

BERLIN (AP) Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and about 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
The virus was detected in ducklings at the farm near Erlangen, in northern Bavaria. A federal lab confirmed that the […]

U.N.: World must manage new health risks

GENEVA (AP) A ballooning world population, intensive farming practices and changes in sexual behavior have provided a breeding ground for an unprecedented number of emerging diseases, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.
AIDS and 38 other new pathogens are afflicting mankind that were unknown a generation ago, the World Health Organization said.
Though advances […]