HEALTHY FOOD: Kids Daily Food Plans and Exercise

Childrens health

2012-02-01

Try to balance the amounts over a few days or a week. Make physical activity a regular part of the day Read the complete article

Pfizer Recalls 1 Million Birth Control Packs After Mixup

Some packets had wrong numbers of active and inactive tablets, which could increase risk of accidental pregnancies

2012-02-01

Tom Murphy AP Business Writer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills due to a packaging error that could raise the risk of an accidental pregnancy by leaving women with an inadequate dose. Read the complete article

Legacy Emanuel Lays Off More than 50 Staff

Secretaries and housekeepers to lose jobs

2012-01-21

By Helen Silvis Of The Skanner News

Legacy Emanuel Layoff More than 50 Staff with 400 to go from system. Secretaries and housekeepers to lose jobs Read the complete article

High Fat, Sugar Recipe Queen Paula Deen Under Fire After Diabetes Announcement

Deen added Novo Nordisk to other endorsement deals that include Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Smithfield hams

2012-01-19

Leanne Italie The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Celebrity chef Paula Deen on Wednesday pledged a portion of her earnings from a lucrative endorsement deal with a diabetes drugmaker to the nonprofit American Diabetes Association. Read the complete article

Dreamers Bring Ideas, Projects to Post-Quake Haiti

Culinary school, classical-music center may not seem like necessities but backers say they’re key to hope, progress

2011-12-13

Trenton Daniel The Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Ron Duprat, a robust celebrity chef decked out in skull-and-crossbones Crocs and a navy blue apron, pauses from his mango-slicing duties at the Karibe Hotel to introduce what he says is a simple recipe for his impoverished country, still battered nearly two years after a devastating earthquake. Read the complete article

HEALTHY FOOD: Unwelcome Empty Calories

Make better choices, like unsweetened applesauce or extra lean ground beef

2011-12-06

US Department of Agriculture

Currently many of the food we eat and drink contain empty calories – from solid fats and added sugars - these add calories but few or no nutrients. Read the complete article

HEALTHY FOOD: Which Meat is Best For Our Future?

5.5 oz of meat per day will cost you $1,000 a year if you take it in a beef but only $400 in chicken

2011-11-29

To produce each person's ration of meat in beef requires 2,420 sq yds year round but only 28 sq yds in chicken; however pork wins the game trotters down with only 1.4 sq yds. Read the complete article

A Chicken In Every Pot - If You've Got a Pot !

In 1928 the Republicans feasted whilst the people starved

2011-11-29

In the 1928 presidential campaign Republicans promised a chicken in every pot. However the stock market crashed and Portland homeless families built a shanty town in  Sullivan's Gulch. Meanwhile President Hoover partyied on a grander scale than ever reacting in Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide victory in 1932. Read the complete article

Ohio Officials Take 200-Pound Boy from Mother

Renews debate on whether parents should lose custody if a child is severely obese

2011-11-29

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The case of an 8-year-old Cleveland Heights boy taken from his family because he weighs more than 200 pounds has renewed a debate on whether parents should lose custody if a child is severely obese. Read the complete article

Medicare Back on the Brink Over Cuts to Doctors

Budget issue could undermine health care for millions of elderly and disabled beneficiaries

2011-11-28

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Politicians of both parties outdo each other vying for the approval of seniors, but their inability to compromise on the federal budget has put Medicare in the crosshairs again. Read the complete article