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Diet makeover, family styleAnita Fuentes doesn't buy fast food for her kids, but that's only one part of making sure they're well fed. Even as Anita Fuentes carefully places pieces of flour-dredged chicken into a pan of hot oil, the South L.A. mother of three acknowledges she'd like to cut back on such dishes -- family favorites or no. "We don't eat a lot of fried chicken and fish, but we do eat it," she says.
LA Times Monday, September 28, 2009Diet makeover: the busy coupleThese two drink sodas, eat prepared foods and dine out a lot. No, no and no. With a diet heavy on sodas, frozen burritos, sweets and late-night snacking, Rafael Navarro and Duncan MacLeod know their food choices leave much to be desired. But busy work schedules (they both work for a digital studio in Burbank, and MacLeod is a USC graduate student) mean the two eat out fairly often. When they do, they tend to hit the drive-through or eat large meals high in fat and calories.
LA Times Monday, September 28, 2009PANTRY RAID: Diet makeovers can be simpleGetting into a nutritional rut can be easy, but cleaning up your dietary habits doesn't have to be difficult Most of our diets could use some tweaking -- if not a complete overhaul. Processed foods made with refined sugar and flour, fast-food meals, sugar-sweetened drinks -- it's no wonder obesity rates have skyrocketed, bringing higher rates of heart disease and diabetes.
LA Times Monday, September 28, 2009Scandal of Parkinson's sufferers forced to foot bill for own carePATIENTS with Parkinson's disease in Scotland are having to pay for vital services themselves because of variations in care provided by the NHS, campaigners have warned.
Scotsman Monday, September 28, 2009Scottish holidaymaker, 26, fights for life in Ibiza after catching swine fluA YOUNG Scottish woman is on a life-support machine in Ibiza after contracting swine flu.
Scotsman Monday, September 28, 2009Tiny Scots isle opens as world yoga centreHUNDREDS of people journeyed to a tiny, uninhabited island on Scotland's west coast yesterday to celebrate its blessing as a yoga colony.
Scotsman Monday, September 28, 2009Thailand wins praise for AIDS vaccine trialHONG KONG (Reuters) - An experimental AIDS vaccine that appears to be the first to protect people was mired for years in deep controversy, and credit for its success must go to Thailand where the trial was conducted, experts said.
Reuters Monday, September 28, 2009More Than Half Million Kids Get Bad Drug ReactionsStudy: Bad drug reactions, side effects send half a million US kids to the doctor each year
ABC News Monday, September 28, 2009Diabetes weakens your bones(American Journal of Pathology) Current research suggests that the inflammatory molecule TNF-alpha may contribute to delayed bone fracture healing in diabetics. The related report by Alblowi et al., "High Levels of TNF-alpha Contribute to Accelerated Loss of Cartilage in Diabetic Fracture Healing" appears in the October 2009 issue of the American Journal of Pathology.
Eurekalert.org Monday, September 28, 2009Universal screening lowers risk of severe jaundice in infants(University of California - San Francisco) Screening all newborns for excessive bilirubin in the blood can significantly decrease the incidence of severe jaundice which, in extreme cases, can lead to seizures and brain damage,
according to researchers at UCSF Children's Hospital and Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research in Oakland, Calif.
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