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A “smart” food scale weighs in on your diet

An interesting item crossed my desk this week. (Well, actually, it crossed my kitchen counter.) It’s a food scale that does much more than just weigh your food. It can also tell you the exact amount of calories, fat, and ten other nutrients that serving contains. It will also store and tally the values for […]

Smoking Will Kill 1 Billion People

By Tiffany Sharples
One billion people will die from tobacco-related causes by the end of the century if current consumption trends continue, according to a global report released Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
At a press conference held in midtown Manhattan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, contributed […]

Smoking gives women acne, scientists reveal

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If dire health warnings and pub bans were not enough to put smokers off the habit, they may think again after scientists revealed it causes acne.
The spotty skin disorder particularly affects female smokers according […]

Report: Man has less severe form of TB

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 […]

First Integral Solution For Permanent Weight Loss Without Dieting

Endorsed by medical doctors and extraordinary experts such as Deepak Chopra, M.D., Elson Haas, M.D., John Gray, Ph.D., and Anthony Robbins, Diet for a New Life: An 8-Step Integral Solution to Weight Loss and Well-being by scientist Mariana Bozesan introduces a bold new paradigm for permanent weight loss. Based on startling scientific evidence, this book […]