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Stores use fresh produce to lure shoppers
May 1 2005 10:06PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Eat more fruits and vegetables. Mom says it. Uncle Sam, too. Yet people still do not get enough _ and the government just doubled the recommended amount. Trying to entice shoppers, produce companies are putting freshly sliced fruit into fun packages for kids and packaging carrot and celery sticks to fit in a car cup-holder. Some on the new lines are on display at the Food Marketing Institute show, the supermarket industry's annual convention.
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Group pushes restricting of cold medicine
May 1 2005 7:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An association representing more than 36,000 pharmacies is issuing guidelines for possible federal legislation to restrict sales of cold medications containing a substance often used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine _ or "speed."
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Experts say obesity still a health risk
May 1 2005 7:35PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Now that the government says fat might not kill so many of us after all, is it OK to be just a little pudgy? Maybe, but before celebrating with a hot fudge sundae, keep in mind the overriding message: Being too overweight really is a serious health risk.
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Sharp-eyed N.C. nurse helps save man
May 1 2005 7:34PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - All Steve Brown wanted Minnie Bullins to do was buy a vacuum cleaner. Instead, she saved his life. Now a billboard in Danbury acknowledges the debt that the vacuum cleaner salesman owes to the retired nurse, whose concern for a stranger led Brown to the doctors who discovered he had cancer.
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Study: Risks jump as obesity escalates
May 1 2005 7:33PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When the fat get even fatter, their risk of death jumps, too, especially if they have an apple-shaped waistline. So concludes a study of 90,000 women in the United States, the first to look closely at the alarming trend of extreme obesity, being at least 90 pounds overweight.
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