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2 hrs ago | MSNBC

Ax hovers over food stamp program as costs grow

A heated battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over cuts to the food stamp program, with lawmakers quoting Bible verses at each other and benefits for millions of people hanging in the balance.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, US News, Life, Food, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Representative Juan Vargas, Democrat, Republican, Steve King

6 hrs ago | Tyler Morning Telegraph

Lighten Up East Texas event's winners shed the pounds

By Coshandra DIllard cdillard@tylerpaper.com Nacogdoches residents shined Saturday as many were winners of prizes during Lighten Up East Texas' Lighten Up and Play - an event culminating a nearly six-month regional weight- loss contest.

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Related Topix: Texas, Nacogdoches, TX, Tyler, TX, Life, Food, Diboll, TX

10 hrs ago | Connecticut Post

What do we eat? New food map will tell us

In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, head of the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, discusses his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nutrition, Life, Food, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

15 hrs ago | IcNetwork

Sixty fillet steaks a day and snacks of shepherd's pie: What it takes to look after a Lion

Sixty fillet steaks a day and snacks of shepherd's pie: This is what it takes to look after a British and Irish Lion We go behind the scenes at the squad's boot camp to find out what it takes to host the British and Irish Lions squad.

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Related Topix: TV, Electronics, Life, Food

19 hrs ago | Daily Mail

Keep calm and eat like a granny: Nutrition advice given to Britons...

It is 70 years since the Ministry of Food's leaflets taught Britons to eat well on rations and stay 'fit for the fight' during the Second World War.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition, Potatoes, Vegetables, Vitamin C, Supplement, Calcium

Sat May 18, 2013

The Motley Fool

Pick Your Poison: Overweight or High Cholesterol

Overweight and have high cholesterol? You may have to pick one to work on at a time, according to data from the lab of John Thyfault, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at University of Missouri.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cholesterol, Health, Life, Food, Nutrition, Missouri, University of Missouri, Alternative, Zocor, Simvastatin (generic)

Go Local

Matt Espeut's Fit For Life: Great Abs Now

I heard one of my mentors give this great analogy: if you lift weights or strength train with a weak core, it's like firing a cannon from a canoe.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

Wall Street Journal

The New Science Behind Philanthropy

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com A young Houston couple is planning to give away $4 billion-but only to projects that prove ... (more)

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Prison

Examiner.com

Franklin Antoian's energizing smoothie recipe

May is " Get Fit " month and the Phoenix Healthy Food Examiner is featuring a special guest contributor in this week's column.

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Related Topix: Health Club, Get Fit!, Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition, New York

MediLexicon

Nutrition Science Focuses On White Vegetables In Supporting A Healthy, Well-Balanced Diet

Potatoes and other white vegetables are just as important to a healthy diet as their colorful cousins in the produce aisle, according to the authors of a scientific supplement published in the peer-reviewed journal, Advances in Nutrition .

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Medicine, Nutrition, Potatoes, Health

GhanaWeb

Pregnant women in danger

About nine thousand pregnant women in Ghana will die by 2020 if the high anaemia levels among expectant mothers are not brought under control.

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Related Topix: 9, Life, Food

Fri May 17, 2013

NutraIngredients-USA

Multi-component supplement may boost weight loss, says new human study

A multi-component supplement containing raspberry ketone, caffeine, capsaicin, garlic, ginger and bitter orange extracts may enhance body composition, and reduce hip and waist girth in overweight men and women, says a new study.

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Related Topix: Bitter Orange, Supplement, Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition

WHNT-TV Huntsville

Featured Job: Director of Food and Nutrition Services- Scottsboro

The Director of Food and Nutritional Services is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, entrepreneurial manager who is constantly seeking a better way to conduct business.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

Science Daily

New era of fisheries policy needed to secure nutrition for millions

Securing the critical contribution of wild fish stocks to food and nutrition security in the developing world depends on better governance and management of the fisheries sector.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition

NutraIngredients-USA

Former FDA official on GMO labeling: 'Science doesn't always win'

Whether the food industry likes it or not, when it comes to GMO labeling, the " train appears to have left the station", according to former FDA associate commissioner of foods Dr David Acheson.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, US News, Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Peter DeFazio, US House of Representatives, Life, Food

NutraIngredients

HEPI: There's no money in algal biofuels - yet. But nutraceuticals are a different storya

Right now, a gallon of gas costs $4 or less. Produce it from algae, and you can expect to pay $18 or more, says the boss of one firm convinced that cutting edge nutraceuticals - not biofuels - is where algae's true potential lies, in the near term at least.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition, Mesa, AZ

www.youtube.com | healthnut

Science Behind Homemade Protein Shakes

When you think homemade protein shakes you probably think simple, unscientific recipes. Now a whole new bread of homemade protein shakes are popping up in videos on YouTube that take the science of protein shakes to a whole new level.

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The Beaumont Enterprise

FDA Targets Inappropriate Nutrition Claims on Food and Beverage Products

FDA Targets Inappropriate Nutrition Claims on Food and Beverage Products A common way to make a product stand out is by extolling the nutritional value of the food with claims that it will improve the consumer's health.FDA has issued an avalanche of warning letters in the last year to food manufacturers that made claims for their products that ... (more)

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition

Patch.com

PVHS Students Teach Preschoolers the Importance of Nutrition

On May 9, Perkiomen Valley High School Students, as a part of Dr. Debra Berardi's nutrition class, took part in teaching preschoolers the importance of nutrition.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Preschoolers, Education Etc.

Thu May 16, 2013

El Observador

Exercise-related Changes in Estrogen Metabolism May Lower Breast Cancer Risk

PHILADELPHIAChanges in estrogen breakdown, or metabolism, may be one of the mechanisms by which aerobic exercise lowers a woman's breast cancer risk, according to data published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research."Observational studies suggest physical activity lowers breast ... (more)

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Related Topix: Life, University of Minnesota, Food, Medicine, Nutrition, Wise, VA