Tweaking your lifestyle could be a big step towards diabetes prevention. The American Diabetes Association has published new diabetes prevention guidelines for people at high risk of type 2 diabetes, the most common type of diabetes. The guidelines appear in September’s edition of Diabetes Care. They’re accompanied by recommendations for people who already know they [...]

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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today had talks with Lebanese government leaders including a Hezbollah minister, toured Beirut’s devastated southern suburbs, and then called for Israel to lift its blockade of Lebanon and for Hezbollah to free two captured Israeli soldiers.  Annan, who had arrived earlier today for what he said would be delicate talks [...]

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I was surfing the net today and I saw this article which intrigued me, check it out.  There are only eight planets in the solar system. Better get used to it. The International Astronomical Union’s members voted Thursday to accept a definition of the term “planet” that leaves tiny, distant Pluto out of the family. The [...]

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1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers  1718 – New Orleans, Louisiana was founded 1768 – James Cook began his first voyage 1814 – Washington, D.C. was burned and White House was destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812 1825 – Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil 1916 – [...]

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Diets rich in berries may help the agingaging brain stay sharp. At least, that’s what seems to happen in rats, researchers report in the online edition of Neurobiology of Aging. The scientists aren’t making promises for people just yet. It’s unknown if their findings apply to human brains. Tufts University psychologist Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD, and [...]

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Eleven British Muslims charged with being involved in a plot to blow up U.S.-bound transatlantic airliners have been remanded in custody after appearing in a London court  today. Eight have been charged with conspiracy to murder and with plotting to detonate homemade explosives on planes after smuggling the components on board while three others were [...]

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Acid skin peel, laser resurfacing, and a chemotherapy cream all remove precancerous skin growths and slow cancercancer — but patients prefer the peel. Precancerous growths, small areas of discrete roughness to the skin, come from too much sun, note VA researcher Basil M. Hantash, MD, PhD, and colleagues. Particularly when a person has a lot [...]

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When children get blood tests, they may feel less pain if they watch TV cartoons during the procedure. Italian doctors report that news in the Archives of Disease in Childhood‘s online first edition. The doctors included Carlo Bellieni, MD, of the University of Siena’s neonatal intensive care unit. Bellieni’s team studied 69 children who were [...]

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Hundreds of Israeli soldiers walked out of Lebanon yesterday— some smiling broadly and pumping their fists, others weeping or carrying wounded comrades — as a cease-fire with Hezbollah solidified after a shaky start. The process was expected to accelerate over the coming days. The international community looked to build a U.N. peacekeeping force for south [...]

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NOKIA (NOK1V.HE), the world’s largest cellphone maker, started its first tests of a technology that allows users to roam seamlessly between phone networks and local wireless hotspots such as Wi-Fi earlier this week. Fifty families in Oulu near the polar circle in northern Finland will test the technology over the next two months, Nokia said on Thursday. [...]

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People who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet, researchers said on Thursday July 27 2006.They lowered their cholesterol more and ended up with better kidney function, according to the report published in [...]

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 President Bush today, declined to criticize Israel’s tactics in its continuing offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, and gave a sharp condemnation of Iran’s role in the bloody fighting.  “Hezbollah attacked Israel. I know Hezbollah is connected to Iran,” Bush said tersely at the end of Oval Office meetings with Romanian President Traian Basescu. “Now is [...]

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Backed by tanks, Israeli troops battled their way to a key Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon on Monday, seizing a hilltop in heavy fighting and capturing two guerrillas. The U.S. completed its evacuation of 12,000 Americans and said it would switch to bringing in humanitarian aid.On the 13th day of  Israel‘s offensive, its forces moved [...]

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