Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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Schwarzenegger To Put Nutritional Content on Restaurant Menus
In the news today, my governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed a law that makes restaurants put nutritional content on menus. A lot of fast food places already provide this information in one way or another, but there are number of sit-down restaurant chains that exclude this valuable nutritional information.
The governator said, “I’m really pumped up [...] -
Root Beer Floats to Help With Diabetes
On the local news today, I heard that the Oakland A’s were having a fundraiser. From the press release:
Today will be the A’s ninth annual Root Beer Float Day. A’s players and local celebrities will serve root beer floats from 10:35 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the West Side Club, with proceeds benefiting the [...] -
Vaccines Cause Autism?
It seems like reports are coming out linking autism to vaccines. I had never put any thought into it, but it seems like there’s a link there. It could however be like Pirates and Global Warming where the two are unrelated coincidences.
The big news is that the United States government seems to be [...] -
Fat is Contagious
The big health news this week is that fat is contagious. It seems that the data from a Framingham, MA (a place close to my heart) suggests this conclusion. Researchers found that people with fat friends were more likely to be fat themselves. Wired News has a bit of fun with this [...]
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Andy Grove and Health
What’s the difference beteen Lazy Man and Health and Andy Grove and Health? Andy Grove is not lazy. If you are familiar with him, you know him as the co-founder of Intel. According to this Wired article, he’s
