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French food giant Danone said Thursday it would change its advertising of the Activia and Actimel yoghurt brands after dropping an attempt to get them recognised as having health benefits. In its quarterly earnings report, the group announced that it had withdrawn an application to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) seeking official validation of its claims for the popular premium brands. Danone...
April 14, 2010
New investigation results, 'Rosai-Dorfman disease confined to the breast,' are detailed in a study published in Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. "Rosai-Dorfman disease (also known as sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy) is an uncommon, idiopathic, benign histiocytic lesion. It usually involves the cervical lymph nodes and, less commonly, extranodal sites," scientists in the United States...
April 14, 2010
Maybe you can't cry over spilled milk, but that doesn't mean you can't have big fights if it's unpasteurized. To a small but dedicated community, it's "raw milk," a life-giving, vitamin and enzyme-rich miracle cure for asthma, gastrointestinal disorders and multiple other illnesses. The viewpoint, championed in the past decade by the Weston A. Price Foundation, which follows the nutritional teachings...
April 14, 2010
Going to PE class and recess can be a win-win situation for students. Physical activity improves kids' fitness and lowers their risk of obesity. And now a government review of research shows that children who take breaks from classwork to be physically active during the school day are often better able to concentrate on their school work and may do better on standardized tests. In many schools, physical...
April 14, 2010
CARLISLE, Pa. The baby had been wailing inconsolably for three hours, pleading for relief but offering no clue about how to soothe her. Her mother, Amalia Machin, had tried everything - feeding her, rocking her, changing her diaper, singing favorite songs, even taking her daughter's temperature to make sure she wasn't sick - but nothing worked. It was the kind of night that can make devoted mothers...
April 14, 2010
Apr. 14 - First the rain, and now the bloom - and the sniffling and sneezing. Allergy sufferers in the central San Joaquin Valley had better get prepared for a long hay-fever season. Grasses and weeds soaked up spring rains like sponges, and pollen production has expanded accordingly. Both nationally and locally, this is shaping up to be one of the worst allergy years, Fresno allergists say. In the...
April 14, 2010
Apr. 14 - Two free health fairs this weekend in Fresno County will cater to the needs of the uninsured and to children, offering services such as blood-pressure checks and nutrition counseling. The Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission Head Start program will hold a health fair Saturday in Mendota with an emphasis on childhood obesity prevention. And on Sunday, the Muslim Society of Central...
April 13, 2010
Apr. 14 - It seems a shame to have large amounts of unused and expensive prescription drugs and have to throw them out. But that is the safest thing to do, says David Hale, agent-in-charge with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. Giving prescriptions to other people is not a good idea. "Technically, that's illegal," Hale said. For one thing, you never know if somebody might...
April 13, 2010
Apr. 14 - The next time you're in a supermarket, pick up a can of soup and check out the amount of sodium listed on the label. If you have hypertension, chances are you shouldn't eat what's in that can. "Some of the hidden sources (of salt) are canned soups, even stuff we categorize as healthy," said Dr. Trevor Satterfield, a family medicine physician at St. Luke's Magic Valley Physicians Center Medical...
April 13, 2010
Apr. 14 - Nicole Nancarrow of Turlock was among several people with concerns in the wake of the ground beef recall at the WinCo discount food store in Modesto. She said she bought two packages of hamburger April 3 at WinCo Foods on Plaza Parkway and cooked half the meat to make spaghetti Monday afternoon. Since eating the spaghetti, her children have stomach pain and diarrhea, and "my oldest son was...
April 13, 2010
Apr. 14 - Working at the health center on Cisco Systems' sprawling San Jose campus, Dr. Seema Sangwan examines dozens of Cisco employees a week - sometimes as they sit in a room nearly 3,000 miles away. The busy internist sees patients at Cisco's North Carolina campus without leaving California, using a high-end videoconferencing system that Cisco developed for health care use. Standing next to the...
April 13, 2010
The head of a key panel advising the UN health agency on the swine flu pandemic said Wednesday there was no reason to wind down the alert before an expected second wave in the southern hemisphere. Australian disease expert John Mackenzie, chairman of the World Health Organisation's Emergency Committee, told an international inquiry that he was waiting to see the progress of A(H1N1) influenza in the...
April 13, 2010
Dolores "Jeanne" Streightiff asks if she can talk after she wraps up her physical therapy session. "I'm allergic to painkillers, so there can be a lot of screaming," the retired ski instructor, 67, half-jokes during a phone interview. Streightiff recently had knee replacement surgery because of painful, activity-inhibiting osteoarthritis and is in the middle of one of her weekly in-home sessions. "I'm...
April 13, 2010
Bogus health plans that advertise comprehensive coverage at bargain prices are on the rise, luring desperate consumers to pay for policies that won't cover their medical bills, state regulators say. In recent weeks, Missouri has cracked down on 13 companies. California has ordered firms to stop selling misleading health discount cards. Tennessee regulators have seized a company they allege collected...
April 13, 2010
WASHINGTON - Beef containing harmful pesticides, veterinary antibiotics and heavy metals is being sold to the public because federal agencies have failed to set limits for the contaminants or adequately test for them, a federal audit finds. A program set up to test beef for chemical residues "is not accomplishing its mission of monitoring the food supply for ... dangerous substances, which has resulted...
April 13, 2010
Apr. 13 - The move by a state senator to force Florida's blood banks to open their financial books to the public is running into opposition from the institutions he seeks to regulate. "I'm disappointed," said Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville. Gaetz, chairman of the health-regulation committee, is sponsoring a bill that would make the nonprofit banks reveal each year to a state agency a full accounting of...
April 13, 2010
Apr. 13 - With the return of spring, the area's farmers markets are back, and fresh asparagus and wild mushrooms have replaced cold-weather root vegetables and cauliflower in the produce bin. That makes it the perfect time to launch Going Vegan, FOODday's new twice-a-month column devoted to a plant-based diet and lifestyle. My goal is to show how being vegan is not only a healthy and humane approach...
April 13, 2010
Apr. 13 - The cast of ABC's " Desperate Housewives" forgot about Russian gold diggers, stripper Robin's adventures and the identity of the Fairview Strangler last week to focus on real life. Dana Delany, who portrays Katherine on the show, is spokeswoman for the Child Hunger Ends Here Neighborhood Rally campaign, sponsored by the food company ConAgra and the hunger relief organization Feeding America....
April 12, 2010
The Internet had a disruptive impact on the handling of the flu pandemic by fuelling speculation and rumours, officials said as a world health probe on Tuesday examined communications on swine flu. World Health Organisation influenza chief Keiji Fukuda told a panel of 29 health experts that the Internet had added a new dimension to public health alerts that became evident over the past year. While...
April 12, 2010
Authorities in China have destroyed nearly two tonnes of pesticide-tainted chives after nine people were poisoned by eating food containing the toxic herb, state media said Monday. The tainted chives are the latest scare in China's notoriously unsafe food industry following the discovery of pesticide-tainted string beans and cooking oil made from recycled food waste in recent weeks. Inspections of...
April 12, 2010
Apr. 12 - A steady line of students cued up for a free mental health screening in the Fairfield University student center late last month. After they completed the survey, free 5-minute massages were being offered. "It was awesome," said Julie Labbadia, 19, a freshman from Westbrook, rising from the chair and preparing to head off to class. A double major in English and sociology, Labbadia said her...
April 12, 2010
Apr. 11 - Health care is one of the industries expected to lead jobs growth as the nation drags through a jobless recovery to the recession. That hasn't happened yet in Tucson and Southern Arizona. Health-care providers locally and nationwide say demand has slacked as patients have lost insurance and put off elective treatments. But a new hospital - Diamond Children's Medical Center at University Medical...
April 11, 2010
VANCOUVER, B.C. Thirty years ago Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg in the chilly waters off St. John's with the dream of raising $1 million for cancer research. The three-decade legacy of his "Marathon of Hope" and the $500 million raised since then would have been unimaginable for him, said Terry's older brother Fred Fox. Terry's dream started small when he launched his run on April 12, 1980, with...
April 11, 2010
Apr. 12 - MONTEVIDEO - A childhood obesity epidemic has many fearing this generation of children will have a shorter lifespan than their parents or grandparents. A lack of physical activity is one of the causes, but the biggest culprit is a diet high in calories and low in nutrition. A growing number of moms in the region are working to turn things around, both at home and in school cafeterias. They...
April 11, 2010
Apr. 12 - EL PASO - Mary Leita Carter was in love with food. She loved dining out, cooking crawfish etouffee or baking alligator cheesecake while she completed her undergraduate work and master's degree in neuroscience at Tulane University in New Orleans. "Anything to do with food and New Orleans, I would do," Carter said in a telephone interview from her home in San Antonio. "Being exposed to Cajun...
April 11, 2010
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