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40 percent of India’s health problems linked to smoking: Ramadoss

40 percent of India’s health problems linked to smoking: Ramadoss

September 30th, 2008 - 11:48 am ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) Forty percent of India's health problems are linked to smoking, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says, defending the stringent measures to ban smoking in public places from Oct ...

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Snapping what you eat can help you stick to your diet (Re-Issue)

September 7th, 2008 - 4:29 pm ICT by ANI -
London, Sept 7 (ANI): Keeping a check on what you eat does help in your bid to lose extra weight, but only if it is done through a camera lens, says ...

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Snapping what you eat can help you stick to your diet

September 6th, 2008 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI -
London, Sept 6 (ANI): Keeping a check on what you eat does help in your bid to lose extra weight, but only if it is done through a camera lens, says ...

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Watching too much TV can make you pack on the pounds (Re-issue)

August 3rd, 2008 - 6:26 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Aug 3 (ANI): While watching television is a good time pass, it can play havoc on your waistline, say a group of researchers, who claim that food advertisements have a ...

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Watching too much TV can make you pack on the pounds

August 1st, 2008 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Aug 1 (ANI): While watching television is a good time pass, it can play havoc on your waistline, say a group of researchers, who claim that food advertisements have a ...

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Poor Bangladeshis spend 87 percent of food budget on rice

June 19th, 2008 - 6:11 pm ICT by IANS -
Xinhua Dhaka, June 19 (Xinhua) The poor and people in low-income section in Bangladesh spend nearly 87 percent of their food budget on rice and the rest on protein and vegetables, giving rise ...

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India slams US for blaming it for global food crisis

June 12th, 2008 - 11:42 am ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) India Wednesday slammed the US for blaming it for the global food crisis, and said the major reason behind the sky-high food prices was the shift from ...

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‘Let obese eat less to ease demand for fuel, food’

May 16th, 2008 - 2:56 pm ICT by admin -
London, May 16 (IANS) It's not exactly a response to US President Bush's comments on the global food price hike, but a respected medical journal has said if the obese in the ...

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Obese people consume 18% more food energy than leaner counterparts

May 16th, 2008 - 1:44 pm ICT by admin -
London, May 16 (ANI): Researchers from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have revealed that obese people consume 18 percent more food energy than their leaner counterparts. For the study, Phil ...

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Hunger hormone makes food look yummier

May 7th, 2008 - 11:30 am ICT by admin -
Washington, May 7 (ANI): Cant resist a piece of chocolate cake lying in front of you? Well, blame it on your hunger hormone, for a new study has revealed that ghrelin, ...

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‘Large-scale investment a challenge in food processing sector’

‘Large-scale investment a challenge in food processing sector’

March 10th, 2008 - 4:06 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Large-scale investment in the food processing sector is increasingly becoming a challenge as global firms provide stiff competition to domestic producers, Subodh Kant Sahai, minister of state ...

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Marketing may influence how often parents give fast food to kids

January 27th, 2008 - 12:44 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, Jan 27 (ANI): Marketing may influence how often parents feed their children fast food, according to a new study. The study, led by Sonya A. Grier, an associate professor of marketing at ...

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Babies conceived during famine more prone to developing addictions

January 26th, 2008 - 1:03 pm ICT by admin -
Washington , Jan 26 (ANI): A new research has cited that babies conceived at the time of famine are more susceptible to developing addictions later in life. For the study, the researchers from ...

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Too many burgers and fries can raise metabolic syndrome risk

January 23rd, 2008 - 12:57 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, Jan 23 (ANI): Too much meat, fried foods and diet soda increases the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, according to a new study. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular disease and ...

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Invading Pacific salmon pose a threat to penguins in southern Argentina

Invading Pacific salmon pose a threat to penguins in southern Argentina

December 30th, 2007 - 12:48 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, Dec 30 (ANI): A new study has indicated that the colonization and breeding of the Pacific Salmon in rivers in southern Argentina might threaten penguins and other marine creatures in the ...

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Frequent fast food consumption means added weight

November 14th, 2007 - 2:43 am ICT by admin -

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