During the last few days a vomiting virus outbreak has affected thousands of children in Germany, and the number of children with vomiting and diarrhea has now increased from about 4,500 to as much as 8,400, according to the country’s health authorities. Reports says, the outbreak happened when the children used the food from [...]
People who are used to eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner, new research suggests. The findings come from a study of nearly 1,000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, reported BBC. It found those who ate chocolate a few times a week were, [...]
NEW YORK: The longevity diet’s premise is seductively simple: cutting your calorie intake well below your usual diet will add years to your life. New research published on Wednesday, however, shows the extreme, emaciating diet doesn’t increase lifespan in rhesus monkeys, the closest human relatives to try it in a rigorous, long-running study. While [...]
Julia Child would have been 100 years old today, but there’s no doubt that this cookery and cultural legend has achieved immortality by the way the nation is celebrating her bicentennial birthday. Originally, #JuliaChild is trending on Twitter, and “Julia Child” became the single most searched keyword on Google on Wednesday morning. Then, [...]
Well-liked TV chef and author Julia Child was born on August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California. In 1948, she moved to France where she developed a fondness for French cooking. With a goal of adapting complicated French cookery for the Americans, she wrote a two-volume cookbook called Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which was [...]
The Chick-fil-A protests seems to be just getting started, with two new campaigns underway and this controversy will going away anytime soon. In one campaign, Marci Alt of Atlanta has posted a petition on Change.org inviting Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy to join her family for dinner. She wants to offer him a first-hand look [...]
After all the shouting, tweeting and protesting is over, the fried-chicken empire of Chick-fil-A will be just fine. Sales at the company, which in recent times has risen into the debate over gay marriage, may even get a pick up in the near term. The longer term is less sure, thanks to the explosive [...]
Chick-fil-A announced on July 13, 2012, that they would give a free meal to those who came to one of their 1600 participating stores in the costume that look like a cow. The deal is part of “Cow Appreciation Day” and those who wear an incomplete costume may earn a free entrée. Those who dress [...]
The Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a clinical trial by Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children’s Hospital and his coworkers. While the media tended to treat the study as another diet trial — what should we eat to maintain weight loss? — it spoke to a far more fundamental issue: [...]
The California dairy cow found to have mad cow disease had been euthanized after it became lame and started lying down, federal officials stated in their latest update on the discovery. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that the sick cow was 5 years old and came from a dairy farm in Tulare [...]