| Filing up for fitness
The new Fall River Fitness Challenge got off to a kicking start on Saturday when folks of all shapes and sizes pledged to lose weight and help the city shed 2,000 pounds by May 5. By 9 a.m., they were lined up outside Community Development Recreation at 72 Bank St. And, until noon, people poured in ready to give their names and get weighed in — all in the name of health and perhaps a little healthy competition. "I'm sick of being fat," said Carlene Beckius, who wants to lose 29 pounds. "I'm sick of struggling with my clothes." Beckius was one of about 150 people to sign up for the challenge in the first two hours of registration. Ten or more teams of people from various organizations have also signed up. The Fall River Fitness Challenge was devised by CD REC, the Diabetes Association, the Thomas Chew Memorial Boys & Girls Club and Healthy City Fall River.
Children's Aching Stomachs: New Research Finds Young Children are ...
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The number of children taking prescription medications to treat gastrointestinal disorders has increased significantly in the past five years, according to a new analysis conducted by Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS) . The research reviewed prescription drug claims of more than 575,000 insured children and found that the number of infants and preschoolers (4 and under) taking medications to treat gastrointestinal conditions rose almost 56 percent from 2002 to 2006, and the prevalence of elementary school-age children (5-11 year olds) using these drugs increased by 31 percent during that time frame. While the actual prevalence rate was highest among adolescents, 12-18 year olds showed the smallest increase in use of gastrointestinal medications -- rising only about 6 percent over the five year period.
Spilling the Beans on Soy
And while organic fermented soy can be good in moderation, eating a tofu burger and washing it down with a glass of soy milk on a daily basis could prove hazardous to your health. Although the lauded Asian diet has incorporated soy for centuries, it has never included the large amounts of unfermented and heavily processed soy products consumed in North America that have toxicologists worried. When seeking out soy, look for products that are labelled "organic soy," which means they are genetically unaltered and pesticide-free. Fermented soy products, including miso, tempeh and tamari sauce, are healthy choices (the fermentation process removes the phytates, trypsin inhibitors and hemagglutinins, which can cause clots). If only the hippies had known that soy was going to wind up a Frankenfood blood crop - chances are they would've just stuck to the wheatgrass.
Ex-Street star in drink-drive ban
Former Coronation Street actor Chris Gascoyne has been banned from driving after admitting drink-driving in the town where he was appearing in panto. Gascoyne, from Chorlton, Manchester, who played Peter Barlow in the TV soap, was disqualified for a year and fined �500 by magistrates at Llandudno. The 39-year-old had drunk three and a half pints of lager at a club after playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan. After the case, the actor apologised and said he made a "stupid mistake". The actor was stopped by traffic officers in the seaside town on 30 December as he drove away from a nightclub in a Ford Fiesta, and was breathalysed. .
Nfld. protests over 'negative' seal defence
Sir Paul had no idea what his ex-wife got him into and he realised how bad things were shortly after the interview began.
The point being many of the people who protest the hunt have no idea what is involved. Because they are fed misleading facts about the hunt by celebrities. Posted 11/01/08 at 11:27 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Shooting down fighter myths
Unfortunately that advice is a fine example of wrong-headedness on defence issues, of a mindset which is the scourge of sensible resource allocation in our massive Defence budgets.
It is doubly damaging as it nurtures the communal sense of national insecurity so energetically crafted by John Howard's government. Corrupt behaviour of politicians with discretion over Defence spending, which the coverage alludes to, is always on when public knowledge is so poor.
The air-combat issue has been painted as turning on the new aircraft acquisitions, that is, the Super Hornet and the Joint Strike Fighter. In reality the source of this controversy is another aircraft, the air force's F-111, acquired nearly 50 years ago, also controversially, by the Menzies government.
The opportunity cost of our few F-111 aircraft is enough to replace all the poker machine revenue in Australia, to immolate every poker machine factory in the nation, to build a hospital or two and also give our military and public servant retirees the same pension indexation enjoyed by federal politicians.
How fast does sea level rise once glaciers start retreating during a ...
I'm no expert, but I thought the problem with the Antarctic ice melt is that this ice actually isn't floating right now. It's on land. So if it melts and flows into the sea, then the sea level will rise. And since the Antarctic is a continent, not a huge ice floe, there are no icebreakers traveling through it. Posted 13/01/08 at 1:22 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
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