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Health & Wellness News tagged with Diet

Should Diabetes Consume Alcohol?
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, diabetes, diabetic, alcohol, diet, healthcare, illness, news )

FatJ
- 1 day ago - diabeticdietfordiabetes.com
Alcohol can make blood glucose too high or too low. Moderate amount of alcohol can cause blood sugar to rise but excess alcohol can actually decrease our blood sugar level even to an unsafe level.
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No More Toxic BPA in Our Food- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, study, research, safety, nutrition, health, humans, family, diet, children, cancer, illness, prevention, warning )

Daphna
- 2 days ago - act.credoaction.com
Did you know that a chemical that has been implicated in everything from miscarriages to cancer to sexual dysfunction can be found in your groceries? Bisphenol-A -- BPA -- is contained in a broad range of food packaging including baby bottles, water bottle
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SHARE OUR STRENGTH'S OPERATION FRONTLINE---Helping Low-Income Families Eat Healthy on a Budget
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, humans, society, Body-Mind-Spirit, food, exercise, children, healthcare, protection )

Cal
- 3 days ago - denverpost.com
Since 1994, this nonprofit has held more than 500 courses and taught more than 6,000 low-income families how to live healthy. The organization is one of many applying for funds from this year's Season to Share program. SEE http://strength.org/
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Lifestyle Change Can Delay Diabetes
Health & Wellness  (tags: diabetes, diabetic, health, study, treatment, diet, exercise, Type 2 Diabetes, type 2 )

FatJ
- 4 days ago - todaymedic.com
In United States 1 in every 9 are reported to be diabetic and most of them are having type II diabetes, which has a genetic predisposition and develops during adulthood.
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USDA REPORT REVEALS HIGHEST RATE OF FOOD INSECURITY SINCE REPORT WAS INITIATED IN 1995
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, safety, risks, research, science, study, nutrition, diet, food )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - usda.gov
Economic Research Service Report Demonstrates Need for Action WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2009 - USDA's Economic Research Service's (ERS) today released its annual report on Household Food Security in the U.S., which revealed that in 2008, 17 million hou
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How Up to 80,000 People Get Cancer Every Year Because They Drink Too Much, Eat Too Much, and Don't Exercise Enough
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, healthy lifestyle, Diet, Drinking, Exercise Habits )

Alisa
- 10 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Almost 80,000 patients diagnosed with cancer each year could have avoided the disease by adopting a healthier lifestyle, figures show.
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Rx: Cranberries
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - lime.com
Maybe we should add cranberries to the long list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Cranberries -- a staple food source with settlers and Native Americans in the northeast -- were valued for their thick skins, allowing them to surv
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NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH: Taking Preventive Measures
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Amreican health, native americans, healthcare, health, prevention, diet, news )

Cal
- 11 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Employees of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota learned ways to prevent suicide during training sessions, following the deaths of 27 teens and young adults and the attempted suicides of more than 400 tribal members over the past few years.
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Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Petition, warning, protection, risks, humans, illness, health, food, government, environment, children, family, diet, ethics )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - change.org
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! To tell the USDA that you want the National Organic Standards Board to take a strong stand against the use of nanotechnology in organic food.
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Childhood Scurvy Cases on Rise in England
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, disease, family, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - greenlivingideas.com
Scurvy is one of those diseases of legend, conjuring up images of pirates and explorers of the sea. When I think of scurvy, I still recall an educational video shown in elementary school of sailors falling ill from a lack of vitamin C. Unfortunately for
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Superfood or Seriously Scary? The Truth About Soy
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, disease, food, health, humans, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 19 days ago - divinecaroline.com
My best friend, Alex, was sixteen when she decided to stop eating meat. Her love of animals and her distaste for the sinewy feeling of meat between her teeth left her seeking vegetarian alternatives to her old steak and chicken staples. When she discovere
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Stevia: This Sugar Substitute Is Sweet and Healthy
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, disease, family, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 19 days ago - motherearthnews.com
Imagine an herb that's much sweeter than sugar, but almost calorie-free. Imagine that it does not cause the after-eating spike in blood sugar that aggravates diabetes. Imagine that it's actually good for you, reducing blood sugar and blood pressure, and b
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Campbell's Soup: Stop Poisoning Our Food!- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, protection, humans, illness, health, food, family, diet, children, nutrition, safety )

Daphna
- 19 days ago - change.org
Consumer Reports has found that major canned food companies including Campbell's Soup are using cans that leach Bisphenol A (BPA) into food. BPA is linked to many health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, height
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Natural Remedies - Non-Medicinal Cures for Colds and Other Winter Ills
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, diet, food, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 20 days ago - thedailygreen.com
If the worrying news about over-the-counter cough syrup has you down, try this natural alternative: Add three tablespoons of dried thyme to one pint of boiling water. Let cool, then add one cup of honey. Take one teaspoon every hour as needed
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Take Action-Tell the RBGH Profiteers Why You Buy Organic to Avoid Genetically Modified Bovine Growth Hormone
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, drugs, family, food, government, health, humans, nutrition, prevention, risks )

Daphna
- 21 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Following up on our successful campaign against Yoplait and Dannon, the Organic Consumers Association is now asking our members to write to ice cream companies that still allow the use of genetically modified bovine growth hormone (Dreyer's, Edy's
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