Riz Khan – Global food justice
June 17th, 2011
With more than one billion people around the world considered overweight, why are so many others still starving and struggling to fill their plates?
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Global Obesity Summit 2010 In Jackson Addresses Growing Epidemic At Ground Zero
November 10th, 2010
Grandma’s recipes come home to Clarkfield
During the 11 years that Maxine Stadem owned the Clarkfield Advocate with her husband Alvin Haugom, she printed a weekly recipe that appeared in her column, ‘Over a Cup of Coffee.’ From 1973 to 1983 those recipes pleased the palates of devoted readers.
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Jamie Oliver targets Ipswich waistlines
Celebrity TV chef Jamie Oliver to bring TV show to southeast Queensland city.
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Global Obesity Summit 2010 In Jackson Addresses Growing Epidemic At Ground Zero
A summit that’s both scientific conference and business policy forum aims to place Mississippi on the front lines of fighting obesity and related metabolic diseases such as diabetes. The Global Obesity Summit 2010, sponsored by the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, runs Nov. 9-11 at the Jackson Convention Complex. Obesity and related …
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TMNG Global and Scientia Advisors Form Strategic Alliance for Emerging Home Health Market
October 6th, 2010
On the side
Does this look like you when you’re making dinner? You come up with a main course, usually a meat. You pick a starch—potatoes, rice, pasta. At the last minute, you realize you need a side dish. So you dump frozen peas or broccoli in boiling water, or you toss bagged salad in a bowl.
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Lawmakers Offer their PDAF for Poor Filipino Families
MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — Lawmakers have offered their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), or the so-called “pork barrel” fund to finance the Conditional Cash Transfer program of the government. The program calls for a P1,400-monthly cash grant for each of the poor families nationwide. The offer was made during a recent budget hearing where Social Welfare and Development Secretary …
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TMNG Global and Scientia Advisors Form Strategic Alliance for Emerging Home Health Market
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — TMNG Global a leading provider of professional services to the global communications, digital media, technology, and financial services industries, and Scientia Advisors, a global management consulting firm specializing in healthcare, life science, nutrition and biotechnology, today announced a partnership to offer strategic consulting services for the …
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Bayer Implements Global IT Strategy With SAP
July 28th, 2010
Diabetes, hypertension cases up in Dormaa
Dormaa-Ahenkro (B/A) July 26, GNA – Nutrition-related diseases, particularly diabetes and hypertension, are assuming abnormal proportions in the Dormaa Municipality.
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Healthier vending machine co. boasts business boom
A year-old Illinois company that promotes healthier snack items for vending machines says business has grown 400 percent.
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Bayer Implements Global IT Strategy With SAP
Bayer, one of the world’s leading companies in the areas of health, nutrition and high-grade synthetic materials, has finalized a global enterprise agreement with SAP AG . With this agreement, the two companies will focus on supporting Bayer’s IT strategy based on the comprehensive, long-term deployment of standardized SAP® solutions across Bayer’s worldwide operations.
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Global Diet Foods Industry
July 1st, 2010
Postal Worker Retires At 95, Onion Sandwich In Hand
Chester Reed worked in Redlands, Calif., for 37 years and never took a sick day. The forklift operator tells NPR that his key to avoiding sick days was watching his diet. He eats an onion-and-mayo sandwich every day. read more
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Recipes focus on good fats
Just because you’re on a diet doesn’t mean that your family has to be.
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Global Diet Foods Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
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