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Weight Loss Challenge : Supplement Your Life

Written by: juicebox

One of the first steps in weight loss is making sure your getting the right nutrients. So if your using a “Fad Diet” or thinking that not eating will make you have sustainable weight loss, think again.

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Your Body is a Machine

Written by: Trick

If you search the Internet, there are millions and millions of pages about weight loss. I suspect that only pages containing scantily clad women exceed the number of fat loss pages, scams and ad laden sites out there.

It blows my mind what people will believe. What fads or “flushes” they’ll try. It’s like being the only sane one in the planet. Right? I’m not trying to insult people, sure the (insert single food here) diet will cause you to lose weight, but that’s because you’re usually starving yourself.

Your body is a machine.

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Weight Loss Challenge : The Series

Written by: juicebox

Are you looking for some great tips on losing weight? Finding ways to cut out from the hype and find what works? Your in luck! Beginning this week, a new series emerges here on the scoop.

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Reducing DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) After a Workout

Written by: juicebox

Chances are if you have done a bit of rigorous exercise before, you’ve experienced Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, or DOMS for short. For those who are just starting out with an exercise program, it could be the single thing that makes them run away from ever exercising again. So just what is DOMS and what is a way to reduce its symptoms?

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Obesity: Balancing Healthy Living and the American Way - Part 2

Written by: Emily Ferreira

So the question being posed is: What can be done to minimize obesity in the US? At the moment, there are several FDA-approved medications and weight loss drugs (or sympathomimetic drugs) that can be used to combat obesity by suppressing an individual’s appetite. But, the obesity dilemma continues to increase Read the rest of this entry »

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Obesity: Weighing in the Facts of An American Crisis - Part 1

Written by: Emily Ferreira

While obesity may be a touchy subject for those that live with it, I think that this potentially deadly health problem needs to be readdressed by health professionals as well as the Board of Education, the FTC and the US Department of Health. According to the OECD Factbook 2007 - Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics report, the United States has the highest percentage of obesity in the world Read the rest of this entry »

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The Truth about Cigarette Smoking

Written by: BuddhaBen

So RJ and Phillip have been spending the last decade paying hot college girls to walk through the clubs of every metropolitan city in the country and offer free cigarettes. “All you have to do Kiddo is just swipe that information-rich drivers license right into my here data extraction remarketing cross promotional hand held computer device and just type your email address here, signature saying ˜you allow me to market anything I want to you and sell your info multiple times right here good and here’s your two free pack of cigarettes.” Thank you come again!

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China Submits on Food Safety

Written by: Gaurav Bhola, MSM, Managing Editor & Community Manager

Since the international food and health scare caused by imported Chinese goods, China has submitted to the global outcry. On July 25, Premier Wen Jiabao stated that complete attention would be given to food safety and product quality. China is renowned for producing substandard products with little emphasis on quality. The Chinese authorities for years have been apathetic to domestic concerns about lack of food and health quality standards, many illnesses and deaths over the years could have been prevented if the Chinese government would have been vigilant. A few years ago, in an Eastern province 13 babies died and many became ill after being fed fake milk powder.

Due to the stronghold of the communist regime and omnipresent corruption, there is a lack of accountability towards the general public. However, that is not the case in the international arena, especially when the public of developed countries such as the U.S. are affected. Any intense scrutiny, recalls, and rejection of Chinese exports can have negative consequences for China’s economic bottom line, as well as puncture a carefully crafted image of domestic communal harmony. Herein, substandard products can have repercussions for international trade and relations.

The efficacy of existing regulation and enforcement procedures have proved futile. The current regulatory system and overlapping local and national agencies are ineffective in supervision of product, medicine, health, and food issues. The enforcement of laws is feeble. Also, China is deficient in a culture that values compliance of legal norms, instead of following laws; much energy is placed on sidestepping them.

As the limelight shines on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, so does it on this important subject. China has announced a five-year plan to deal with legal, enforcement, structural and general quality standards with immediate measures to be taken soon. In spite of the food safety issues, China has assured athletes, coaches, and officials at the 2008 Beijing Olympics that only carefully monitored healthy food will be served. To its credit, China is now showing its public and the world that it is serious about tackling this problem.

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China Food Health Scare Forces Bush to Take Action

Written by: Gaurav Bhola, MSM, Managing Editor & Community Manager

In positive news regarding the recent international health scare related to Chinese food and medicine, President Bush established the Import Safety Working Group. The purpose of the high-level government panel is to provide recommendations on what needs to be done to guarantee the safety of imported food and other products and improve U.S. policing of those imports.

The working group will be chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt. However, the White House maintained that the set up of the panel was not a direct response to China’ export of tainted products.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been slow to recognize the dangers of certain products from China. Its capacity to supervise the country’ food supply has come under scrutiny after a series of high-profile cases of salmonella-contaminated peanut butter, E. coli-tainted spinach, pet food tainted with the chemical melamine, poison-laced tainted Chinese toothpaste, and seafood imported from China.

Until now, many consumers outside of China were not aware of the extent of the health safety crisis within China. Three years ago, in an eastern province of China 13 babies died and several hundred fell ill after being fed fake milk powder. The level of product-safety regulation and quality control are reprehensibly poor, in fact even Chinese consumers are suspicious of goods on store shelves. Consumers cannot discern with good faith, good products from bad.

Chinese authorities have repeatedly acknowledged problems exist in product-safety and quality control but have done little beyond cosmetic changes. Hopefully, international pressure and loss of business will impel China to address the issues in a serious and circumspect manner.

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