Making healthful changes in your life is the best thing you can do for both your physical and emotional well-being. In order to understand more about what motivates the people who successfully take action day-by-day to improve their health, we polled 1,072 adults across the country. To test your nutrition and exercise knowledge, take our Health IQ Quiz, drawn from the 2007 Cooking Light Insight survey. Eating Habits The survey found that, for the most part, people were well versed in nutrition issues. For example, most knew that fatty acids in fish are good for you, a multivitamin can’t take the place of food, LDL is ‘bad’ cholesterol, and some high-fat foods such as avocados are healthful. Still, there were some areas of confusion. How do you compare? 70 percent of American adults drink lower fat milk instead of whole milk 59 percent eat chicken with the skin removed 54 percent take vitamins 52 percent use lower fat alternatives when cooking 51 percent read nutrition labels on food Fitness Findings Nearly half of Americans feel better on the days when they exercise, though just as many admit finding time […]
Customers of the internet auction site eBay are being defrauded by unscrupulous dealers who secretly bid up the price of items on sale to boost profits. An investigation by The Sunday Times has indicated that the practice of artificially driving up prices - known as shill bidding - is widespread across the site. Last week one of the UK’s biggest eBay sellers admitted in a taped conversation with an undercover reporter that he was prepared to use business associates to bid on his goods for him. Our inquiries found evidence that a number of businesses - ranging from overseas property agencies to car dealerships - have placed bids on their own items using fake identities. The cases raise questions about whether eBay, the world’s biggest auction site, is doing enough to protect consumers. Shill bidding is against eBay rules and is illegal under the 2006 Fraud Act. However, the resulting higher prices on the site boost the value of eBay’s share of the sales. Last November eBay changed its rules to conceal bidders’ identity - making it even more difficult for customers to see whether sellers are bidding on their own lots. Since its […]
On Sept. 16, 1954, in a speech to a group of science writers, Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, then head of the agency now known as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, made a bold prediction. The potential for peaceful uses of nuclear energy was so great, he said, that electricity produced by nuclear power plants would one day be ‘too cheap to meter.’ Over the coming decades, the economics of nuclear power turned out to be more problematic. Even before operational catastrophes at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine, the industry was reeling from a series of financial catastrophes that brought widespread project cancellations and effectively ended construction of new plants in the U.S. Now, nearly three decades after the last new plant was approved, proponents of nuclear power say the economics of atom-splitting energy have dramatically improved. In fact, they argue, financial forces have become a driving force behind a new enthusiasm for nuclear energy as the power industry scrambles to meet growing demand for electricity with an aging fleet of generating stations. But the industry still needs to raise tens of billions of dollars before the proposed round of […]
Intel announced yesterday that it had mastered a new design that makes computing more powerful, less expensive and so much more efficient that mobile devices like cellphones may soon accomplish tasks reserved until recently for desktop computers and other equipment with larger processors. Executives at the world’s largest manufacturer of computer chips said they had achieved this long-sought goal by using new materials to make transistors — the microscopic switches found on all computer chips — so their size could be reduced significantly. The development means that the density of transistors on a chip can be doubled, making computers faster, and that the cost of powering transistors can be cut by nearly a third, the company said. ‘Ten years ago, many of us wondered if we’d ever get to this point. Not only have we gotten to the point, but it probably didn’t take us quite as much time as we thought it would have,’ Mark T. Bohr, a senior fellow at Intel, said in a written statement. Hours after Intel publicly disclosed it had reached this milestone, International Business Machines announced that it had developed a similar technology in collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices, Intel’s […]
OSLO, Norway — Norway’s government on Friday proposed lifting a national ban on using human embryonic stem cells for research, saying the change might help find cures to a broad range of diseases. Embryonic stem cells have the ability to become any tissue in the body, leading scientists to see them as a possible source of medical breakthroughs. Current Norwegian law, from 2003, bars use of fertilized eggs or stem cells taken from them in research and requires eggs left over after assisted pregnancies to be destroyed. The proposed law would allow research on such eggs under strict legal and ethical limits, including consent from the parents and approval from a national ethics panel, the government proposal said. ‘The government believes if is important to use the opportunities offered by science to gain knowledge that can be used to treat serious illnesses in the future,’ Minister of Health and Care Services Silvia Brustad said in presenting the legislation. She noted that there is hope stem cell research could lead to treatments for a wide range of illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes, AIDS and cancer. Brustad also said a new law would be more in line […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
