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Sunday, 11 January 2009 at 4:19 pm Posted by smp

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First US count finds 1 in 200 kids are vegetarian (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 03:48 PM CST

Sam Silverman, 16, of Westborough, Mass., works out at the YMCA gym, in Westborough, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Silverman, co-captain of his high school football team, and a vegetarian, says he's pleased with his health and has no problems sticking to his diet. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team — a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that's nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian.

Nutrient diligence needed for vegetarian kids (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 03:39 PM CST

Sam Silverman, 16, of Westborough, Mass., works out at the YMCA gym, in Westborough, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Silverman, co-captain of his high school football team, and a vegetarian, says he's pleased with his health and has no problems sticking to his diet. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Children who want to be vegetarians need to "fill in the blanks" of their low-protein diets by eating alternatives to red meat, fish and poultry, experts say.

Salmonella prompts peanut butter recall (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 01:03 PM CST

Salmonella is seen under high magnification in a colorized scanning electron micrograph. (CDC/Handout/Reuters)AP - An Ohio distributor says it has recalled two brands of its peanut butter after an open container tested positive for salmonella bacteria.

CDC director is leaving with a mixed legacy (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 02:18 PM CST

In this Thursday, July 31, 2008 file photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Julie Gerberding prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gerberding has resigned as director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be replaced as of Jan. 20, 2009 by a deputy who will serve as interim director. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The woman who led the nation's top public health agency for more than six years is leaving the post with a mixed legacy.

First sex-specific gene linked to Alzheimer's: study (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 05:58 PM CST

An elderly person suffering from Alzheimer's disease. A gene found on the X chromosome harbours the first sex-specific genetic variant linked to a greater susceptibility to Alzheimer's, according to a new study.(AFP/File/Fred Tanneau)AFP - A gene found on the X chromosome harbours the first sex-specific genetic variant linked to a greater susceptibility to Alzheimer's, according to a new study.

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