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Study: Diet may inhibit prostate cancer
Aug 10 2005 11:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A radical ultra low-fat diet and other lifestyle changes may help keep early-stage prostate cancer from worsening, says the first attempt to test the theory.
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Employees pass on health flex accounts
Aug 10 2005 4:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For years, employers have complained that too many workers reject a benefit designed to help them with child care or medical expenses because they don't want to risk forfeiting any money still in the account at year's end.
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Feds aren't subsidizing recommended foods
Aug 10 2005 3:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government says half your diet should be fruits and vegetables, but it doesn't subsidize the farmers who grow them. Instead, half of all federal agriculture subsidies go to grain farmers, whose crops feed animals for meat, milk and eggs and become cheap ingredients in processed food.
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Pulmonary disease kills 21 in Congo
Aug 10 2005 10:12AM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - An unidentified pulmonary disease raging through a diamond mining community in eastern Congo has killed 21 people and infected nearly 1,000 others, the United Nations and aid groups said Tuesday.
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Bird flu kills one more person in Vietnam
Aug 10 2005 8:33AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A 35-year-old man from southern Vietnam died of avian flu, health officials said Tuesday, as the country began a mass vaccination of poultry to try to slow the spread of the virus.
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New food pyramid designed to look simple
Aug 10 2005 8:21AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Think of the new food pyramid as a symbol _ a kind of nutritional Nike swoosh. The triangle-shaped guide for healthy eating has drawn criticism for not spelling out what foods to eat or how much to put on your plate. But it's not supposed to, the Agriculture Department says.
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Probe of FDA breast implant plans sought
Aug 10 2005 8:18AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer advocates asked Congress Tuesday to investigate the Food and Drug Administration's plans to return silicone gel-filled breast implants to the market, contending the agency is violating its own safety standards.
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