This Month's Top News Stories - June 2010
Keeping up with Mother – barely
This is not so much a tribute to my mother on Mother's Day as a plea for help: "How do I keep up with her!" My mother is 94, going on 49. I am somewhere in between, going on old and creaky. My mother takes each day at a gallop...
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'Dirty Dozen' Produce Carries More Pesticide Residue, Group Says
If you're eating non-organic celery today, you may be ingesting 67 pesticides with it, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.
Article and video from CNN Health
TV Food Advertisements Promote Imbalanced Diets
Making food choices based on television advertising results in a very imbalanced diet… Investigators found that a 2,000-calorie diet consisting entirely of advertised foods would contain 25 times the recommended servings of sugars and 20 times the recommended servings of fat…
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Make Small Changes to Prevent Diabetes
Nearly 24 million American children and adults have diabetes while 57 million have pre-diabetes. Making small changes in nutrition and activity levels can help prevent the onset of type-two diabetes. Registered dietitian, Rebecca Scritchfield joined us to talk about these changes.
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Xtreme Eating 2010
With two out of three adults—and one out of three children—overweight or obese, you’d think that restaurants would have some interest in keeping their patrons alive and dining out longer. With mandatory calorie labeling on the horizon for chain restaurants, you’d think that restaurants would be dropping high-calorie items from their menus. ..Nope...
Article from Center for Science in the Public Interest
2,000-Calorie Milkshake Tops List of Worst Drinks
A milkshake containing 2,010 calories - equivalent to eating 68 strips of bacon or 30 chocolate chip cookies - has topped a list of the 20 worst drinks in America.
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