News tagged with 'Fat'

While others were inside a Tampa church praying, a three-year-old child was left inside an SUV on Sunday. The investigation is ongoing, but it appears to be an accident...

37,000 traffic fatalities a year may represent an improvement over the statistics of the past, but various authorities opine on how we can make roads safer in this New York Times Opinion page.

A new law that went into effect to reduce the number of teen driving deaths, has sparked a public protest with promises to repeal Kyleigh's Law.

The final report on the crash of Flight 3407, a Continental regional carrier, concludes that pilot fatigue and lack of attention and training contributed to the accident, which killed 50. The report comes as regional carriers dominate air travel in some regions.

What happened to Northwest Flight 188? It overshot its destimation by 150 miles this week and air-traffic controllers lost contact with the pilots for 78-minutes. The pilots say they were in a heated discussion. They've both been suspended from flying.

XMRV is a retrovirus that embeds in the body and is linked to both chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. Whether it is a cause or a correlation remains a mystery.

Fried foods of all sorts, including butter, are attracting media attention for their total disregard of the link to heart disease, sort of a rebel without a healthy cause. 

Rats fed a high-fat diet for just nine days showed a sharp decline in their physical endurance and cognitive ability. Researchers already blamed the diet for heart disease and obesity. Now the rat study will be carried out on humans to see what a junk food diet might be doing in the long-term.

Despite the fears of Big Brother, the city of New York has managed to remove trans fats from restaurants, school lunches, baked goods, and street vendor food. Removing the artificial artery-clogging fat should cut down on coronary artery disease that kills one half million Americans a year.  

Think it couldn't happen to you?  Think again. Postal workers and rocket scientists have inadvertently left behind their child strapped in the back seat of a car.  Death by hyperthemia or heat stroke takes at least 15 to 25 children a year. As the weather heats up, this Washington Post article is a "must read" on how it can so easily happen and what you can do to prevent Fatal Distraction.  

"Eat This and Not That," is a new book that teaches grocery store shoppers to make better choices by reading labels. Slight alterntions to the typical American diet with foods available in the grocery store, can translate to weight loss, the authors say. 

Results of the EPIC Study provide striking evidence that body weight and distribution of body fat are both major factors for assessing death risk. Fat is a serious problem. You need to eat right, exercise often and reduce stress to live the healthiest life possible.

Death rates for older drivers in Florida decreased following a 2004 vision screening law for drivers age 80 and older, according to new research from UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

A new study found, magnesium sulfate, given to mothers at risk of preterm delivery, cut the rate of cerebral palsy in their babies by nearly half. Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects 1 or 2 of every 1,000 infants.

Citing high rates of obesity, the Los Angeles City Council voted to place a moratorium on the construction of any new fast-food restaurants in South L.A., where 73 percent of the restaurants offer fast-food fare.  Incentives will be offered to draw in establishments offering healthier food.