Severe diet linked to physical fitness into old age -
UB Reporter
Severely restricting calories leads to a longer life,
scientists have proved.
New research now has shown for the first time that
such a diet also can maintain physical fitness into
advanced age, slowing the seemingly inevitable
progression to physical disability and loss of
independence.
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Madonna’s new look: cosmetic surgery & diet
change rumours - Fametastic
MadonnaMadonna has sparked rumours that she’s
had a face lift or other cosmetic surgery after she
was spotted with what looked like two black eyes
earlier in the week.
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Get that dude some Macho Chef
Gear!
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Thieves Steal $1,000 of Food From WNY Church
- WGRZ.com
Buffalo Police are looking for the thief or thieves
who stole more than $1,000 worth of food from
the Macedonia Baptist Church's food pantry last
week.
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Cheap no more - The Economist
Rising incomes in Asia and ethanol subsidies in
America have put an end to a long era of falling
food prices
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Court evicts son, 36, who insulted his mother's
cooking - TimesOnline.com
He also conceded that he repeatedly called his
mother's cooking “s***”. In his defence, Mr Ortiz
said that his comments were a mere statement of
fact; “an observation on the culinary ability” of his
mother.
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The 'MythBusters' Take on the Mentos/Diet Coke
Craze - South Florida Sun Sentinal
If you go to the viral video site YouTube.com and
search for "Mentos Diet Coke," you'll come up
with many videos, going back months, that show
people dropping mint Mentos candies into bottles
of Diet Coke and watching the immediate shooting
geyser that results.
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Sugary Beverages May Increase Alzheimer's Risk
- ScienceDaily
Excess drinking of sugary beverages like soda may
increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, suggests
new research in mice.
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Office of the Future: Walk While Working - ABC
News
Mayo Clinic Researchers Design Cubicles That
Allow You to Work Out While Working
By SIBILE MORENCY
On the heels of research finding that fat-burning
enzymes shut down while sitting, Mayo Clinic
researchers believe they may have the cure for
inactive 9-to-5ers chained to their desks: walking
workstations.
According to experts, the walkstations, which
resemble treadmills with computers attached,
represent a bold new step by the medical
community in an effort to fight the rising obesity
epidemic.
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Study finds healthy food too pricey for poor families
- ABC News
A study by a South Australian university has found
that it might be too expensive for low-income
families to eat healthily.
The Flinders University's Healthy Food Basket
study looked at the cost of buying enough food to
satisfy the nutritional requirements of a family of five.
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RV Cooking Show Rapidly Gaining Popularity
- PRLEAP.Com
Blending several hot trends – RVing, healthy local
foods and cooking shows, Evanne Schmarder,
owner of Roadabode Productions, proudly
introduces the RV Cooking Show - www.
RVCookingShow.com.
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Nanotechnology a 'bigger concern' than GM foods
- ABC News
The lifting of bans on genetically modified crops has
revived the debate about the safety of the food we
eat.
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Inmate wanting vegetarian diet goes on hunger
strike
Times Republican - A Polk County inmate plans to
go on a hunger strike because he says jail officials
aren’t accommodating his vegetarian diet.
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Christmas food prices set to rise, say retailers -
UK Telegraph
The cost of a home-made Christmas dinner is set
to rise on average by £2 per person from last year
to nearly £16 a head, retailers predict.
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Cooking from a wheelchair - inRich.com
Chef Diane Applewhite's new mission is to teach
food preparation to those who can't stand to cook.
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Longview's Butcher Shop robbed at gunpoint -
NewsJournal.com
The Butcher Shop was robbed at gunpoint around
its 10 p.m. closing time Wednesday. According to
Longview police, a man with a blue ski mask came
up behind an employee who was in the office
tallying up money.
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Chef jailed after whisky theft - Hastings Observer
A ST LEONARDS chef walked out of court after
a theft charge hearing, and stole two bottles of
whisky from Lidl - just across the road from the
court.
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The Greenpeace Diet - WSJ.com
Thank Greenpeace for a helpful piece of advice on
how Australians can put their eco-consciences at
ease: Throw another 'roo on the barbie.
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Have you tried the samurai diet? - National Post
When you think "samurai," you think powerful
warrior, skilled in combat and archery. On the
other hand, desk-squatting big-belly bureaucrats
don't conjure the same image.
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Mesa toddler burned by bowl of hot soup - East
Valley Tribune
A 15-month-old Mesa boy was flown to Maricopa
Medical Center with serious burns over 27 percent
of his body after he pulled a bowl of hot soup onto
himself Friday.
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Chef fought off robbers... with Spam - Machester
Evening News
A CHEF fought off two would-be robbers who
threatened him with a knife . . . using three tins of
Spam.
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Select Baby Gender / Pre-conception diet -
ProgressiveU.org
You want to choose the Gender of your next
baby......
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Butcher charged over boning knife attack - The
West
A 37-year-old butcher has been charged after he
attacked a man with a boning knife in the car park
of a tavern in Canning Vale last night.
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Web photo project aims to debunk BMI labels -
Stuff.co.nz
Kate Harding, a freelance writer who blogs about
fat-acceptance issues, put together a body mass
index (BMI) photo project to visually show the
difference between what we think of as overweight
and obese people and who they actually are. The
BMI Project aims to illustrate the measurement's
limitations in order to address the stigma of its
labels.
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Living Paycheck to Paycheck Gets Harder - AP
The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in
America is getting harder. What used to last four
days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill,
but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids
can have a healthy dinner.
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Author: Clinton Needs an Erotic Diet - Radar
Like Radar, author/erotic photographer Sheldon
Filger believes that presidential candidates should
be celebrated in all their glory. (His trenchant
analysis of the Clinton candidacy in his book Hillary
Clinton Nude is referenced in our latest issue.)
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Owner must put fat dog on diet or risk having it
confiscated - La Crosse Tribune
.To Fawn Lunde, Tobias is a dream come true, the
dog she’s wanted since she fell in love at age 7 with
Duke, the bloodhound on “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
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Chef Turns Moth Into Buttery Treat - NBC6
An Australian chef is trying to turn a notorious
flying pest into a delicious treat -- but some aren't
biting.
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Diet With A Little Meat Uses Less Land Than
Many Vegetarian Diets - Science Daily
A low-fat vegetarian diet is very efficient in terms of
how much land is needed to support it. But adding
some dairy products and a limited amount of meat
may actually increase this efficiency, Cornell
researchers suggest.
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Popularity of Personal Chefs Rises - AP
As lives get increasingly busier with careers, kids,
commutes and other chaos, a growing number of
people are turning to personal chefs to make sure
that there's a hot meal on the table at the end of a
long day.
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Fight for Your Right to Pâté - Time
At Philadelphia's Vintage restaurant last week the
special was two delicately pan-seared pieces of
foie gras perched atop toasted brioche with a berry
coulis, garnished with fresh raspberries and a side
of rebellion.
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Food stamp diet challenge was an unhealthy
exercise - San Jose mercury News
The farm bill, which includes the Food Stamp
Program, is up for reauthorization. This past
summer, some members of Congress and others
took the Food Stamp Challenge, spending only
$21 on food for a week to focus attention on the
program's inadequacies. It's been more than 10
years since any money has been added to the Food
Stamp Program, and it is not indexed for inflation.
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Navy sends Canadian chef to S. Korea to teach
MWR cooks ‘tricks of the trade’ - Stars and
Stripes
Pacific editionA civilian chef who volunteers to help
ship-based U.S. Navy cooks improve their fare
spent about 20 days in South Korea doing
something he’s never done before — work on
shore.
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Poop Vanilla, Endless Soup Among 2007 Ig
Nobels - National Geographic
Sword swallowing is surprisingly safe, it turns out,
as long as you don't hiccup or get distracted by a
wily macaw on your shoulder.
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