Palangkaraya Post

Not long after 72-year-old Anne Beale Golsan had retired on disability from her job as a librarian, she put a stack of paid bills out for the mail, hung up a freshly pressed outfit and taped a note to the front of the house. “Don’t come in by yourself. Get somebody to come with you. […]

When 10-year-old Marie Grandguillotte goes grocery shopping with her mother, she reads the food labels. She looks for calories and ingredients and knows to avoid fat and cholesterol. Reading the food labels was “a little bit confusing, but after a while I got used to it,” said the fifth-grader from suburban Doral.
Nutrition experts and the […]

One in three teens also believes there is only a “slight risk” or “no risk” in trying meth once or twice, according to the study by The Meth Project, a nonprofit anti-drug group that produces gritty ads to show the perils of meth abuse.
And about one in four teens said there are benefits to using […]

By P. SOLOMON BANDA
Associated Press Writer
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Wayne Watson loved microwave popcorn so much he would eat at least two bags each night, breathing in the steam from the just-opened package, until doctors told him it may have made him sick.
Watson, whose case of “popcorn lung” is the sole reported case of the disease […]

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
Associated Press
A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
The study is the largest yet to link a biological factor to the racial […]

LONDON — Some artificial food colorings may stimulate hyperactivity in children, and parents may gain some benefit from preventing their children from consuming them, a government agency said Thursday.
The Food Standards agency had commissioned researchers at Southampton University in England to examine the possible effects of several commonly used dyes. The researchers described their findings […]

By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
VENLO, Netherlands — Do you find your fingers drifting into your mouth when you’re nervous, anxious or just bored? Are your nails chewed to splinters or your cuticles gnawed to bleeding pulp? Nail biting is more than a bad habit. Doctors say it is one of the most common symptoms of […]