Losing weight and keeping it off

As a registered dietitian, I don’t rush clients out of my office once they’ve achieve their weight-loss goal for a reason: I want to increase the odds they won’t put the pounds back on.
To do so, I encourage them to continue checking in with me - often for years after reaching [...]

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Haren’s splitter on target

Haren likes to bury the pitch in the dirt with two strikes, often getting hitters to swing over it.
“It puts some urgency in the hitter to not get to two strikes,” pitching coach Bryan Price said. “That works in his favor because he can throw any of his pitches over for a strike. He’s not [...]

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Haren’s splitter on target

Haren likes to bury the pitch in the dirt with two strikes, often getting hitters to swing over it.
“It puts some urgency in the hitter to not get to two strikes,” pitching coach Bryan Price said. “That works in his favor because he can throw any of his pitches over for a strike. He’s not [...]

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Bang 100000 goes up in smoke

The first live firing of a Javelin anti-armour missile, used against tanks, bunkers and buildings, was conducted at Waiouru this week.
A reinforced concrete bunker 960 metres away was destroyed seconds after the trigger was pulled by Corporal Joseph van Arendonk of Burnhams 2/1 Royal NZ Infantry Regiment.
And it was a good thing the shot [...]

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Our obsession with cleaning

Shannon Lush thinks cleaning the house is fun. She turns it into a game,
racing against her own time record. %26ldquo;My best so far is doing the bathroom in
eight and half minutes, she says, adding that music is a great help. %26ldquo;I
like squirting vinegar spray when the cannons go off during the 1812
Overture.
Lush, 51, is Australias [...]

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Spring cleaning golf tips to clean up your game!

Often I see amateurs trying to play shots from around the green off of a tight lie with a sand wedge or lob wedge. This shot is difficult even for low handicappers simply because the lie can be off of very short grass or even hard pan. The length of the club and the [...]

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Study backs antiinfection tests of all hospital patients

“Testing high-risk groups isn’t enough,” he said. “You stop some %26#091;of the bacteria’s%26#093; spread, but not enough” to really make a difference in hospital-acquired infections. The Evanston Northwestern study describes a three-stage rollout of MRSA screening across Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital and Highland [...]

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Animal cartilage in heparin

The disclosure Wednesday about Baxter’s heparin, which is developed from pig intestines, also is raising fears that conventional inspections and quality-control procedures do not adequately protect American consumers at a time when a large share of the U.S. drug supply is imported from places, such as China, where counterfeiting is common and government oversight can [...]

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FDA eyes HPV shot for older women

There are dozens of different types of HPV, but those targeted by the vaccine %26#8212; types 6, 11, 16 and 18 %26#8212; account for more than 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer.More than 6 million Americans get a new infection of HPV each year.

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