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Dairy Council to End Ad Campaign That Linked Drinking Milk With Weight Loss

A national advertising campaign that associates dairy products with weight loss will be curtailed because research does not support the claim, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
The advertisements, conceived by the promotional arm of the dairy industry and overseen by the Agriculture Department, feature slogans like МMilk your http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/diet/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier. Lose weight!Н and suggest that […]

Top exercisers of the ’80s still have all the moves

When aerobic dancing took off in the 1980s, exercisers went for the burn and sweated to the oldies.
Now a much wider array of fitness classes is available.
Three of the biggest names in aerobic dance and exercise, Judi Sheppard Missett, Kathy Smith and Tamilee Webb, speak Sunday at the IDEA Health & Fitness Association’s […]

Keeping Up With the Pack

I USED to run alone. Who would want my schedule and who would run my pace, I thought. Anyway, I had my iPod for company.
But a few months ago, on a bicycling trip in Italy, a member of our group who is also a runner urged me to find some running friends. You will […]

Scientists discover possible key to HIV’s attack on people

SAN FRANCISCO: U.S. government scientists have discovered another way that HIV attacks human cells, an advance that could provide fresh avenues for the development of additional therapies to stop AIDS.
The discovery announced Sunday was the identification of a previously unidentified human receptor for HIV. The receptor helps guide the virus to the gut after […]

Very Low Birth Weight Infants as a Model to Study Genetic Influences on Neonatal Weight Gain.

Very Low Birth Weight Infants as a Model to Study Genetic Influences on Neonatal Weight Gain.
Short Communications Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition. 46(1):113-116, January 2008.
Spiegler, Juliane *; Kattner, Evelyn +; Vochem, Matthias +; Kuster, Helmuth [S]; Moller, Jens [P]; Muller, Dirk ||; Kribs, Angela **; Segerer, Hugo ++; Wieg, Christian ++++; Nikischin, Werner […]