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Dietitians Of Canada Says Posting Calories And Nutrients On Menus May Help Canadians Make Healthier Food Choices
Does posting calories on restaurant menu boards help Canadians make healthier food choices and possibly prevent obesity? Dietitians of Canada says yes - providing nutrition information in restaurants, including calorie and nutrient content of food served, is one step that may help promote healthier choices. However, a review of the evidence on this issue by Dietitians of Canada (DC) underscores the fact that there are no simple solutions to the complex issue of obesity prevention; a variety of approaches are needed. One such solution is to ensure that settings in which food choices are made, including restaurants and fast-food establishments, support healthy eating. Longer term evaluation of these types of labelling initiatives are needed before we can say whether providing calorie and nutrient information in these settings will affect obesity rates.
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Small Businesses Fear Reform Could Worsen Rising Health Costs
"Many small businesses are worried that rising health insurance costs are choking their growth and hindering the creation of new companies, and they fear health care reform plans being debated in Congress and by the Obama administration could end up costing them even more in taxes, according to business advocates," the Baltimore Sun reports. Some of those views were collected in a survey released Tuesday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. According to the survey 29 percent of [309] businesses were unable to offer insurance to their employees, and many said their health care costs had risen this year. "Rising health care costs are choking American small businesses just when we need them the most," said Nicholas Green, an organizer for the research group"s Maryland contingent (Sentementes, 7/22).
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Award Nominations Sought For Excellence In Child Abuse Prevention, Oklahoma State Department Of Health
The State Interagency Child Abuse Prevention Task Force and the Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) at the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) are accepting nominations for awards to recognize persons and organizations for their demonstrated outstanding commitment and dedication to child abuse prevention in Oklahoma.
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$1.25 Million Awarded To Prostate Cancer Research

New treatments to ease or even cure the most common cancer affecting Australian men are a step closer to reality with a $1.25 million grant awarded to QUT prostate cancer researcher Professor Colleen Nelson today. Professor Nelson received the top Smart Futures Premier"s Fellowship, worth $1.25 million over five years, which she said would be used to develop new, advanced treatments for prostate cancer. "I couldn"t be more honoured to have received this award," Professor Nelson said. "I think it will be a good message to send across the state that we care about this disease. "(The fellowship is) giving us the opportunity right here in Queensland to make the therapeutics for the men who suffer this disease. "I look forward to the next five years of actually developing those new therapeutics." Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said Professor Nelson"s work at QUT"s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation had the potential to save thousands of lives each year. "Professor Nelson is regarded as a world leader in prostate cancer research and her work is helping us to treat and better understand the most common cancer contracted by Australian males," Ms Bligh said at the awards ceremony. "One in nine men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime, and almost 3000 men die of prostate cancer every year. "Professor Nelson"s ground-breaking work is attempting to pinpoint more effective treatments for advanced prostate cancer and is exploring the disturbing links between diabetes and obesity in males and prostate cancer. "This is very important work. It will not only have some very, very important outcomes for men here in Queensland but also for men around the world." Professor Nelson is Director of the Australian-Canadian Prostate Cancer Research Alliance which has previously received $2 million in funding from the State Government and is supported by the Prostate Cancer Foundations of Australia and Canada. She has also been named as one of the Directors of the new Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre - Queensland which will be established in Brisbane with federal government funding. Initially based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, the centre will move into the $300 million Translational Research Institute due to open in Brisbane in 2012. Also at today"s ceremony, a number of other QUT researchers were awarded. Professor John Bell, from the Institute of Sustainable Res and the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, received a Level One Smart Futures Fellowship worth $300,000 over three years for his research into incorporating solar power into a new energy supply system for Queensland. Dr Karla Ziri-Castro, from the School of Engineering Systems, received a Level Two Smart Futures Fellowship worth $150,000 over three years to develop an efficient and cost-effective high-speed wireless broadband communications platform for rural and regional Australia. And Dr Marcus Foth, from the Faculty of Creative Industries, also received a Level Two Smart Futures Fellowship to investigate how best to motivate and encourage people to pursue a sustainable and environmentally-friendly lifestyle. Queensland University of Technology


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