With over 70,000 foods and 500 restaurants in their database, there’s a good chance that if you’ve eaten it, it’s in there. If you’re looking for that one healthy item on a restaurant’s menu, CalorieLab provides full menu overviews along with more detailed nutritional information for each individual item.
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August 31st, 2008
Check Out the Calories of Popular Foods and Restaurants
August 31st, 2008
Everyday Culprits of Tooth Decay
I learned that there
’s a lot more than sugar to watch out for. From foods that encourage tooth decay to habits that wear away gums, there’s more to maintaining our smile than a simple brush and floss.
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August 31st, 2008
Why Strawberry Jam is More Regulated than Cigarettes …
“While jams and other consumer products are strictly regulated and are required to pass stringent tests before they can be sold, tobacco has no restrictions and manufacturers can, and do, add anything they want into the product.” …
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August 31st, 2008
Orange County Reacts To New Medical Marijuana Rules
A couple of days after the California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued a new directive on guidelines governing medical marijuana, the county’s top law enforcement brass scrambled to figure out what it means to them.
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August 31st, 2008
2 hospital ERs placed on lock down
St. Anthony
’s Medical Center in south St. Louis was closed to new patients around 3:30 p.m. after three men walked in with a blue tint to their skin. A hazardous materials team set up decontamination tents in the hospital’s parking lot shortly after the incident was reported to authorities.
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August 23rd, 2008
LSD Could Heal Thousands as Therapeutic Tool
Andrew Feldm
ár (the Canadian psychotherapist who was denied entrance to the United State last year when a US border guard Googled his name and found a research paper in which Feldmár described two acid trips he took 1967) has an essay in the Guardian about psychedelics as a useful took in psychotherapy.
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August 22nd, 2008
California Supreme Court To Consider Medical Marijuana Limit
A Los Angeles County medical marijuana case, which most agree would never have seen a courtroom in Mendocino County, has raised questions on whether any limits imposed by the legislature to the Compassionate Use Act is constitutional. Last Wednesday the California Supreme Court unanimously agreed to hear the case of California vs Patrick Kelly.
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August 22nd, 2008
Fat into muscle - how to turn a beer gut into a six-pack
Fat can be directly converted into muscle, scientists have discovered, raising new hope for overweight people.Now one team has shown how to promote the manufacture of “good” brown fat, so we can burn more calories, while a second team, another US team in Boston, has shown how brown fat and muscle are linked, suggesting ways to interconvert the two.
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August 22nd, 2008
17 Ways to Reduce Tension in Seconds — Anywhere
#11. ‘When your eyes feel tired from staring at your computer screen all day long, give them some heat.’ Rub your hands together vigorously until you feel the skin on your palms begin to warm up. Then cup one hand over each eye, feeling the heat from your hands relax your eyes.
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August 22nd, 2008
Why Playing Doctor Can be a Dangerous Game
“How to go off medicines isn’t routinely studied and remains more of an art than a science,” says Jack E. Fincham, PhD, a pharmacy professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy. Here are some common reasons for stopping a medicine and what you should know before you do.
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