Targeting Smoking, Trans Fat and Cars
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Newly installed Arlington County Board Chairman J. Walter Tejada, the highest-ranking Latino official in Northern Virginia, yesterday unveiled an activist, and potentially controversial, agenda for 2008 at the county's annual organizing session.
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state&#39;s latest effort to curb air pollution. By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The UKâs Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has published a new food and health manifesto, setting out the industryâs efforts to help in the fight against obesity.
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The European Commission launches graphic images showing the damage smoking can do to people's health.
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A range of measures is needed to encourage people to quit smoking, Health Secretary John Reid said today. Dr Reid was speaking ahead of publication of the Government
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Smoking in pubs, restaurants and the office is expected to be banned later thanks to new Government plans to improve the nation&#39;s health.
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Germany taxes, rather than subsidizes, biodiesel. That's killing the industry.
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ATKINS-style diets are the best for shifting pot bellies in middle-aged men, say researchers. Doctors found fat loss from the chest and stomach was three times greater on the low carbohydrate regimes than a low-fat plan.
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Smokeless tobacco power UST wants smokers to go smokeless. Seems to be working.
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The province&#39;s crackdown on smoking will be launched tonight with a series of concerts across Ontario. Health Minister George Smitherman&#39;s first step is an ad campaign aimed at young people to get them to stop smoking and to convince them not to start.
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TORONTO - The Ontario government has proposed anti-tobacco legislation to ban smoking in workplaces and all indoor public areas. Several Canadian provinces already have smoking bans, but Ontario Health Minister
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government said Thursday it will create a task force to find ways of eliminating heart-clogging trans fats from foods sold in Canada.
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The British government will launch a long-awaited policy paper on public health next week with plans to curb public smoking, tackle obesity and address the way food companies target children through advertising.
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TORONTO -- Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said yesterday. While health warnings -- in place since 2000 -- are &quot;working ...
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDayNews) -- A grapefruit or two a day, along with a healthy diet, could help shrink widening waistlines. It might also cut smokers' risk for cancer as it inhibits a carcinogen in tobacco smoke.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A doctor is leading a campaign aimed at requiring insurance companies to fund programs that would help people lose weight with exercise programs and diet counseling.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- In the 1980s and &#39;90s, Americans tried to control their weight by watching their cholesterol by cutting dietary fat and substituting carbohydrates. They paid little mind to total calories and physical activity. And guess what happened to their waistlines -- and their children&#39;s?