Paul McCartney Calls for Indian National Vegetarian Day

Jan 05, 11 Paul McCartney Calls for Indian National Vegetarian Day

Share Paul McCartney is urging India to establish a national Vegetarian Day in celebration of meat-free lifestyles. In a letter sent to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Paul McCartney said that such a day would “be a celebration of life.” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals added that the letter said a meat-free day...

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Weight Loss: Some Basics for the New Year

Jan 04, 11 Weight Loss: Some Basics for the New Year

Share Weight loss has always been a widespread New Year’s resolution, and in keeping with previous years, wannabe dieters have taken to the internet in recent days to hash out a get-fit plan for 2011. Dee Zichowic, 57, aimed to shed pounds in 2010. She shared her story with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When Zichowic visited...

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Ground Beef Recall Issued to 6 States

Share Ground beef recall orders announced on Friday affected almost 40,000 pounds of meat distributed to six states. The Hawthorne, Calif.-based First Class Foods, Inc. issued the recall after a regular company-performed sampling revealed possible E. Coli contamination. The organic ground beef is believed to be tainted with the E....

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Parsley-Cilantro Recall Issued After Salmonella Outbreak

Share Parsley and cilantro recall orders were issued by a Texas produce distributor Monday after samples in Quebec, Canada, and Michigan tested positive for salmonella bacteria. J&D Produce Inc. recalled nearly 7,000 cases of cilantro and curly parsley as a “precautionary, voluntary recall” of produce packed between...

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Type 2 Diabetes Risk Helped by Dairy Compound

Share Whole-fat dairy products may reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health assessed 20 years of health data from 3,736 patients. They found that people who consumed more trans-palmitoleic acid – a compound found in the dairy fat of milk, cheese,...

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Foodborne Illness Affects 48 Million Annually

Share Foodborne illness gets 48 million people sick each year, killing 3,000 and hospitalizing 128,000 more, health officials said in a study published Wednesday. Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta released their findings in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Of those 48 million annual...

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Egg Recall: FDA Says More May be Necessary

Share An expanded egg recall may be necessary, the head of the U.S. FDA said on Monday, as salmonella outbreaks increased. Margaret Hamburg, the FDA commissioner, told CNN the expanded egg recalls would follow “the largest egg recall in recent history,” and include more than half a billion eggs. Hamburg said because of...

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Thorough Egg Recalls Started with Salmonella Threat

Aug 18, 10 Thorough Egg Recalls Started with Salmonella Threat

Share There is a countrywide evoke of eggs from 13 well-liked egg trademarks in result at the present. The eggs were created by an Iowa company and have been connected to diseases in California, Colorado and Minnesota. On the other hand, eggs that have been affected by the recall were disseminated in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa...

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Latest Milk Scandal in China Results to Expansion of Investigation

Aug 15, 10 Latest Milk Scandal in China Results to Expansion of Investigation

Share An official newspaper reported that China will examine a wider choice of dairy products and also breast milk as establishments inspect alleges that a product of infant formula instigated evident breast expansion in a small number of babies. It was the newest foodstuff security humiliation to tremble China, which...

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Barbecues Don’t Have to be Discarded in Maintaining a Shapely Body

Aug 15, 10 Barbecues Don’t Have to be Discarded in Maintaining a Shapely Body

Share Barbeques are just some of the delicious recipes during summer while long nights are spent drinking with friends in beer gardens.  This enthusiastic living is able to take part in confusion with your waistline, leaving you gazing more porky than lively. Yet there are methods to link in the amusing and experience similar...

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