At least 22 people in Trenton, N.J. and another 14 in Long Island have contracted the E. coli bacteria, all but six after consuming food from Taco Bell restaurants, according to U.S. health investigators.
Taco Bell had temporarily closed one of its fast-food restaurant in Middlesex County, N.J., and four in Suffolk County, N.Y. as a precautionary measure against E.coli., and is working with New Jersey health authorities seeking the cause of an outbreak of E. Coli which has sickened nearly a dozen people, six of whom remain in hospital.
Teenagers who take a daily multivitamin supplement have a healthier diet and lifestyle than those who don’t take vitamins, reports a study in the December Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Diversified social roles for men, women and children may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals, says a new study in the December 2006 issue of Current Anthropology. The study argues that division of economic labor by sex and age emerged relatively recently in human evolutionary history and facilitated the spread of modern humans throughout Eurasia.
A new study, presented at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, provides the first ever scientific proof that if you eat slowly, you will eat less, and you will enjoy the meal more, and the most important it will keep you slim.
Dr. Hannah Sahud, a pediatrician at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, has published her study in Pediatrics, about fast food junctions and resaurants in children’s hospitals. Having fast-food restaurants in children’s hospitals influences patients’ families to eat fast food and to think that it’s relatively healthy.
US pediatricians and doctors ask crackdown on ads aimed at children. Inappropriate advertising contributes to many kids’ ills, from obesity to anorexia, to drinking booze and having sex too soon, the American Academy of Pediatrics says.
Prompt, uniformly distributed payments to farmers whose birds are killed because of avian flu are needed to help battle the disease, and it would encourage early reports of the disease, according to the report by the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Food Policy Research Institute.
A Food and Drug Administration panel will meet on the issue to insure the safety of popular heart stent on Thursday and Friday. Medical journals are rushing studies into print, and powerful doctor groups are reconsidering treatment guidelines.
Political leaders are gradually becoming more aware of the need for food and nutritional support in the ‘essential package of care’ for people affected by HIV.