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Nutrition gov Homepage

US federal guide offering access to all government web sites with reliable and accurate information on nutrition and dietary guidance. Nutrition.gov provides easy access to the best food and nutrition information from across the federal government. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers. Providing science-based dietary guidance is critical to enhance the public's ability to make healthy choices in the effort to reduce obesity and other food related diseases. Since dietary needs change throughout the lifespan, specialized nutrition information is provided about infants, children, teens, adult women and men, and seniors.

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American Society for Nutrition

Association that advocates health and nutrition related issues. Has meeting events, board members, membership news, and current press releases. The American Society for Nutrition (3,500+ members) is the premier research society dedicated to improving the quality of life through the science of nutrition. The Society fulfills its mission via the following: fostering and enhancing research in animal and human nutrition; providing opportunities for sharing, disseminating, and archiving peer-reviewed nutrition research results (at its annual meeting and in its official publications, The Journal of Nutrition and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition); fostering quality education and training in nutrition; upholding standards for ethical behavior in research, the protection of human subjects, and the care and treatment of research animals; providing opportunities for fellowship and support among nutritionists; and bringing scientific knowledge to bear on nutrition issues through communication and influence in the public domain.

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Nutrition Explorations

Provides nutrition education information and resources for teachers, parents and kids. Guides, school programs and menu. Developed by the National Dairy ... The National Dairy Council (NDC), the nutrition marketing arm of Dairy Management Inc.™, has been the leader in dairy nutrition research, education and communication since 1915. NDC provides timely, scientifically sound nutrition information to the media, physicians, dietitians, nurses, educators, consumers and others concerned about fostering a healthier society.

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Book your hotel reservations at Hudson Hotel. Hudson is one of the most luxurious hotels in New York City that is conveniently located close to Central Park ... In February 2007, MHG and an equity partner acquired the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and related assets. MHG has other property transactions in various stages of completion including projects in Miami Beach, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada, and continues to vigorously pursue its strategy of developing unique properties at various price points in international gateway cities in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia and around the world. - [Read more]

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Obama to pitch trio of economic proposals in Ohio (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Seeking to give anxious Democrats a boost ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama is pitching a trio of economic initiatives Wednesday and voicing unwavering opposition to Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy.


BP: Multiple companies, teams contributed to spill (AP)

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. Before the key piece of evidence has even been analyzed, oil giant BP PLC on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, planned to release the conclusions of its internal investigation into the rig explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Oil giant BP PLC said in an internal report released Wednesday before a key piece of evidence has been analyzed that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months.


Fla. minister: Sept. 11 Quran burn still planned (AP)

Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war.   (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.


GOP proposes renewing tax cuts, freezing spending (AP)

FILE - In this April 14, 2010 file photo, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., talk to reporters outside the White House in Washington. Boehner could walk down most U.S. streets anonymously. But the perpetually tanned golf lover, who grew up in a Cincinnati family of 14, could become the next House speaker and the GOP leader of opposition to President Barack Obama.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - House Republican Leader John Boehner onWednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.


FBI: Aircraft searched, no credible threat found (AP)

A KTLA-TV grab shows passengers leaving a Thai Airways Airbus A-300 following a bomb scare at Los Angeles International Airport.(AFP/KTLA-TV)AP - Investigators found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror, the FBI said Wednesday.


 

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Romania To Back Moldova?s Efforts Toward EU Accession Regardless Govt Formula-FMRomania maintains its policy to support Moldovan endeavors toward EU accession, regardless of the country?s government formula, foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu said Wednesday.
Rompetrol CEO Sees Bucharest As Balkans? Future Financial CapitalRompetrol president Dinu Patriciu on Wednesday said Bucharest could become the ?financial capital? of Balkan area.
PM Calls For Caution In Investigations Regarding Nokia Plant In RomaniaRomanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said on Wednesday the country?s Anticorruption Department must handle with more care subjects regarding important investors like Finnish company Nokia in order not to scare the investors away.
Romanian Mobile Telephony Customers Top Country Population NumberRomania?s top three mobile telephony operators, Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, had together 22.236 million customers at the end of 2007, exceeding by over half a million the population in the country, of 21.565 million people.
Romanian PM Says Min Liability Law Should Be Independent Technocrat MadeRomanian prime minister Calin Tariceanu said he wants a new law on minister liability that would make the ministers more responsible, but which does not leave the ministers ?at the hands of political abuse? by the presidency.
Romania Former WBO World Champ Mihai Leu Runs For Hunedoara MayoraltyRomania?s Conservative Party on Thursday will present the candidacy of member Mihai Leu, former WBO World Champion, for mayor position in Hunedoara municipality, western country.
Romanian Govt Oks Electrica Muntenia Sud Sale To Italy?s EnelThe Romanian Government has approved the privatization of Romanian regional power distributor Electrica Muntenia Sud to Italy's utility Enel SpA (EN), Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said Wednesday.
Romanian Tanks For Tires Case Suspended Pending Constitutional Court DecisionThe trial in which Romanian retired generals Eugen Badalan and Mihai Popescu, among others, are charged with causing over EUR1.2 million in losses to the Army Ground Forces General Staff was suspended when the Supreme Court approved the exception of unconstitutionality raised by the defendants.