Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
London, January 9 (ANI): The British Government's flagship Change4Life anti-obesity campaign is being partly funded by food companies that have been linked to weight problems, according to a report.
Published by the medical journal Lancet, the report says that ministers are of the opinion that the push, which includes participation ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
London, January 9 (ANI): The British Government's flagship Change4Life anti-obesity campaign is being partly funded by food companies that have been linked to weight problems, according to a report.
Published by the medical journal Lancet, the report says that ministers are of the opinion that the push, which includes participation ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
London, May 11 (ANI): About 70 per cent of the older British people have turned to the wartime "make do and mend" money-saving tips that they learnt from their parents or the generation who struggled with rationing, in order that their cash go further amid the ongoing recession.
The Age ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
London, May 9 (ANI): British MPs have put in claims for items from the common to the bizarre. Now, The Sun has presented their own ABC list of greed.
A is for AGA: A Tory charged 160 pounds for his annual Aga service.
B is for BREAD BIN: Labour backbencher ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
New York, May.9 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has been claiming that it has sanitized scores of Taliban militants in the Swat Valley and other adjoining areas, but if hundreds of people who have been displaced by the 'war' are to be believed, the army is gunning down innocent and hapless ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Faizabad, May 8 (ANI): Union Government's Supplementary Nutrition Programme has greatly benefited women and children in Faizabad by curbing malnutrition among the poor families.
Government started the scheme with focus on improving the health and nutritional status of infants aged till six years, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
Under this programme, ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
London, May 08 (ANI): Albert Einstein once speculated that 'if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.' Now, scientists have described the idea as a 'myth'.
Honeybees pollinate many of the vegetables and fruit eaten by humans and that ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): A new study by scientists has suggested that biomass converted into electricity could be more efficient than ethanol.
The study was conducted by University of California, Merced, Assistant Professor Elliott Campbell and two other researchers.
In the study, Campbell, along with Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution's Department ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
London, May 8 (ANI): Scientists have warned that the wild ancestors of common domestic fruit trees are in danger of becoming extinct.
According to a report by BBC News, the warning has come as researchers have published a "red list" of threatened species that grow in the forests of Central Asia.
These ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): University of Alberta researchers have developed a formula to reduce methane gas in cattle, which is a threat to the environment.
By developing equations that balance starch, sugar, cellulose, ash, fat and other elements of feed, a Canada-wide team of scientists has given beef producers the tools ...
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