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The number of overweight Swiss children has decreased significantly over the past five years. - swis

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The number of overweight Swiss children has decreased significantly over the past five years, according to a national study.

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Seatbelt for beer slab, not 5-year-old - smh.com.au

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A driver who buckled up his slab of beer - but not the five-year-old boy sitting next to it - has shocked police who pulled him over near Alice Springs. Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the Holden Commodore on the Ross Highway south of the desert town on the weekend.

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Taking The Temperature Of Global Climate Change

Posted by eworldvu from

The daily observation from the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) clearly highlights a potential global problem. In 2008, nearly every day of each of the first four months of the year has recorded an observation of sunspot activity that is equal to zero. In fact, there have been only two days in the last four months when there has been any sunspot activity at all and each small event disappeared very quickly.....

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Bush pledges $770m in food aid

Posted by Jeff from Al Jazeera

Let them eat switchgrass! US president vows to help tackle global crisis caused by rising commodities prices.

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Wild salmon could disappear from Vancouver menus

Posted by Shemuses from CBC

One of Vancouver's top restaurants says it would consider taking wild salmon off its its menu if it proves to be unsustainable. Robert Clark, the executive chef of C restaurant, which overlooks Vancouver's False Creek, said the restaurant has made no decision yet, but wants to do its part to help protect dwindling salmon stocks. "At C, being a leader in the selling of sustainably harvested seafood, we are always considering and reconsidering and analyzing what's on our menu and should be there," Clarke told CBC Radio on Thursday morning.

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Burger King VP
puts self on grill | news-press.com | The News-Press

Posted by RobCottingham from News-press

A senior Burger King VP is charged with posting harsh attacks against his critics of his company's labor policies under an assumed name.

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The world’s food insecurity

Posted by Shemuses from Open Democracy

The severity of today's world food crisis resembles that of the early 1970s. But the role of the financial sector and of global climate change are key differences, says Paul Rogers. The food crisis is now affecting many countries across the world. Millions of people in dozens of countries are unable to afford the food they need, and malnutrition is on the rise. From Egypt to Indonesia, Haiti to Thailand, and across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, increasingly vociferous public protests over food prices or shortages have exploded; some governments even fear for their survival.

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Should we start stockpiling food?

Posted by Damianmann from Wall Street Journal

I don t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it s time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No, this is not a drill.

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Van City sizzles, T.O. fizzles

Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail

New York's finest are making waves on the West Coast while one of Toronto's best bolts elsewhere. As one city shines and another loses its lustre, Beppi Crosariol reports on what may be the passing of a prestigious torch: the culinary capital of Canada

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The Green Fairy

Posted by swissjourno from

Once upon a time in the mysterious Val-de-Travers lived "The Green Fairy". The product of a secret elixir known as absinthe, she cast a spell on everyone who tasted her.(The Mysterious Switzerland series is produced by SRG SSR idée suisse.)

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Breast cancer's booze connection

Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail

Yet that one glass of wine - the pleasure of it, the taste of it and, most of all, the beloved ritual of it - is now under siege. The release last week of startling research on the link between drinking alcohol and getting breast cancer has sparked new fears in many women. According to the study conducted by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, the headlines blared, women who consumed less than one drink a day had a 7-per-cent increase in their risk of developing certain very common estrogen-fuelled breast cancers. Related Articles From the archives * Alcohol may boost breast cancer risk The Globe and Mail Take one or two drinks a day and your chances of getting these tumours increase 32 per cent, and three or more drinks boosts your risk 51 per cent.

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Dot Earth Diet: In-Vitro Meat, Home-Grown Greens?

Posted by Shemuses from Dotearth.blogs.nytimes

The pages of this newspaper hold two sharply divergent visions of how to eat in a world heading toward 9 billion people seeking a decent life. There is news from animal-rights campaigners of a big prize for cheap in-vitro meat (I still crave a different name). And there is Michael Pollan's magazine essay on the virtues of attacking the climate problem, in part, by growing at least one item on your menu yourself, whether in a plot hacked out of a lawn or a pot on a rooftop.

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