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If you can't tolerate gluten, tasty cookies might be a rare treat. These are not only good, they are good enough to share with friends or family who are not gluten-intolerant. (Assuming you're willing to give them away, of course!) The secret is a blend of white rice flour, sweet rice flour and cornstarch subbing for wheat flour. Check natural foods stores for the rice flours and for the gluten-free...
April 12, 2009
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Apr 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian researchers say users of public transit are three times more likely than others to be fit and as a result may not have to use the gym. The study, published in the Journal of Public Health Policy, find users of public transportation more likely to meet the recommended 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a day, five days a week...
April 12, 2009
Apr. 10 - Within the past decade, said USC Aiken sophomore Erica Reed, both of her grandmothers, an aunt and a great-aunt underwent treatment for breast cancer. "They're all survivors, all doing OK," she said. "One of my grandmothers got it back as back cancer, but she's fine now." That experience led to Reed's decision to major in nursing. It's also why the Zeta Tau Alpha member joined other sorority...
April 12, 2009
Welcome to the first installment of "Family Meals Matter" a new weekly meal planning and nutrition column that helps make healthy eating easier for busy families. In recognition that today's hectic lifestyles mean few families are able to come together and prepare a full meal every night of the week, this column will feature a grocery list and recipes to make one full family meal, two to three entrees...
April 12, 2009
Welcome to the first installment of "Family Meals Matter" a new weekly meal planning and nutrition column that helps make healthy eating easier for busy families. In recognition that today's hectic lifestyles mean few families are able to come together and prepare a full meal every night of the week, this column will feature a grocery list and recipes to make one full family meal, two to three entrees...
April 12, 2009
Georgia has largely failed to reduce the number of illnesses caused by food-borne contamination during the past four years, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The Atlanta-based CDC also noted that Georgia had the second-highest rate of salmonella in a 10-state study for 2008, which also included previous years. "In Georgia, as in other states, there has been...
April 11, 2009
CHICAGO, Apr 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A 26-year-old pediatric resident potentially exposed hundreds of patients, including babies, to tuberculosis, officials at three Chicago-area hospitals say. The female resident, a doctor-in-training from Northwestern University, was diagnosed with TB this week, said the Chicago Department of Public Health. As of Friday, no one who had been around the woman had...
April 11, 2009
If you're such a chocoholic that you wish you could free-base the stuff, a new product will let you come pretty close. Le Whif (right) is a new chocolate-consumption gadget that lets people breath in chocolate instead of eating it. Invented by Harvard Professor David Edwards, Le Whif is about the size of an asthma inhaler and the shape of a lipstick tube. Edwards said Le Whif actually helps people...
April 10, 2009
Christina Applegate, who underwent a double mastectomy last summer because of breast cancer, sends some bad smoke signals this week in LA. A source told "The Insider" that the 37-year-old "Samantha Who?" star "stopped smoking when she received her health news last year, but as everyone knows, it's difficult to break an addictive smoking habit." Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
April 10, 2009
Apr. 10 - Within the past decade, said USC Aiken sophomore Erica Reed, both of her grandmothers, an aunt and a great-aunt underwent treatment for breast cancer. "They're all survivors, all doing OK," she said. "One of my grandmothers got it back as back cancer, but she's fine now." That experience led to Reed's decision to major in nursing. It's also why the Zeta Tau Alpha member joined other sorority...
April 9, 2009
Controversy was kneaded in the recent edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition over whether to fortify flour with vitamin B12 to help people deficient in the supplement. Take our true/false quiz about all things B12. 1. B12 is needed to help make DNA, the genetic material in all cells. 2. The food highest in B12 is fortified breakfast cereals. 3. Among the people said to be helped by B12...
April 9, 2009
WEST CHESTER, Pa. By his analysis, Edward Boyer should be dead. Boyer, who lost his health insurance with his factory job last May, is an insulin-dependent diabetic who says he can't afford his medicine. He has a new job, working part-time in the kitchen of a chain-store restaurant, but can't afford insurance, he says. A month ago, things looked grim. He had enough insulin to last a few days and didn't...
April 9, 2009
HOUSTON, Apr 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An eye muscle coordination disorder - convergence insufficiency - if left untreated, often affects school performance of students, a U.S. eye expert says. The disorder is found in some 5 percent to 20 percent of the population, depending on the definition used and the age group studied, Dr. Janice Wensveen of the University of Houston College of Optometry said....
April 9, 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Apr 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People who choose a high-risk sex partner are much more likely than others to get a sexually transmitted disease, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the University of Florida and University of Pittsburgh examined the sexual activities, partner characteristics and STD diagnoses of 412 subjects between ages 15 to 24. The study, published in the journal...
April 9, 2009
NEW YORK, Apr 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - There is growing evidence that consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is an important contributor to rising U.S. youth obesity rates, U.S. researchers said. Lead author Dr. Y. Claire Wang of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York said replacing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages with water could eliminate an average of 235 excess...
April 9, 2009
LONDON, Apr 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - British researchers suggest brain activity already present in young people may be associated later with Alzheimer's disease. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may be a step towards a diagnostic test to identify individuals at risk for Alzheimer's. The Oxford University and Imperial College London researchers used functional...
April 9, 2009
FREIBURG, Germany, Apr 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Poison emergency centers in two German cities have registered 17 patients with health problems after taking Chinese slimming capsules, researchers said. Pharmacologist Dieter Muller and colleagues describe the documented cases of poisoning in the cities of Freiburg and Gottingen in the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International. Fifteen women...
April 9, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Can doing the downward-facing dog keep your heart from racing out of control? Alicia Jones is hoping so. Jones has a condition called atrial fibrillation that has revved up her heart to 250 pounding beats per minute. So fast that she's gone to the emergency room to have her heart shocked back to normal rhythm. Now Jones is in a first-of-its-kind study at the University of Kansas Hospital...
April 9, 2009
NEW YORK, Apr 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Monday said it has received a major gift from the estate of late U.S. music star Luther Vandross. Vandross died in July 2005 at age 54, more than two years after suffering a debilitating stroke. The R&B icon had a family history of diabetes, and he suffered from the disease, the foundation said. "Luther was one of the...
April 9, 2009
This is what transparency looks like to the federal government: The Web site for the government's economic stimulus program says Georgia will get millions of dollars for public transportation. How much for Atlanta? Finding that detail requires a careful reading of the March 5 edition of the government's omnibus of official data, the Federal Register. In arcane language and minuscule type, pages 9,656...
April 9, 2009
Due to regional conflicts across the globe, such as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism, women are being deployed overseas in greater numbers than ever before. Women constitute approximately 16 percent of the 3.5 million members of the U.S. armed forces and 10 percent of present forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (see also George Mason University). Although separation of a service...
April 9, 2009
THE first time Tom Kiklas saw an electronic cigarette, he recalls, "I couldn't stand it. I thought, 'I don't want to be involved in this.' I'm an anti-smoking kind of guy." But after Kiklas realized that electronic cigarettes, a k a. e-cigarettes, deliver nicotine without tobacco or combustion products, thereby eliminating virtually all of the health hazards associated with smoking, he was comfortable...
April 8, 2009
For old television shows, there's Hulu. For college lectures, there's iTunes U. And now, for videos about art, there's ArtBabble, a Web site created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art that offers videos from sources including the Museum of Modern Art and the PBS- TV series "Art:21." In the last few years, as museums have tried to take advantage of the Internet to connect with young audiences, they have...
April 8, 2009
BETHESDA, Md., Apr 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Regular exercise is safe for heart failure patients and may slightly lower their risk of death or hospitalization, U.S. researchers found. Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, said the researchers also found that heart failure patients who add regular, moderate physical activity...
April 8, 2009
NEW YORK, Apr 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - More than half of New York City non-smokers have been exposed to second-hand smoke at levels high enough to leave residues in the body, researchers said. A New York City health department study, published online in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research, showed that 57 percent of adult non-smoking New Yorkers have elevated cotinine levels - a by-product of...
April 8, 2009
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