Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), unveiled new capabilities connecting to Amazon’s Alexa. Using the prompt, “Alexa, ask Fitbit how I’m doing today,” along with several other supported health and fitness prompts, the voice response ...
Tags: Fitbit, Amazon's Alexa
The Foam Company, one of the UK’s leading experts in foam products, is celebrating a gold award for its outstanding commitment to the workplace health, safety and welfare of its employees. After having a full risk assessment, the ...
Tags: The Foam Company, Health and Safety Award, Award, Employee
Li Ning Co Ltd posted a profit in 2015 following three consecutive years of losses. The China-based sports giant posted an annual net profit of 14.3 million yuan ($2.2 million), compared with a 781.5 million yuan loss a year ago. ...
Rensselaer Professor Mariana Figueiro, Light and Health Program Director at the Lighting Research Center was an invited speaker and panelist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop: Shift Work at Night, Artificial Light at ...
Somma Food Group has launched a partnership with the New York City Public School System in offering Chickentopiatm Drumstix in over 1,700 of their schools. First served in December, Chickentopiatm Drumstix are served to New York City's ...
Australia’s top medical news program made some startling revelations this week. The most surprising finding is that there is a 45% higher mortality risk for people with Body Mass Index (BMI) of 23-25 than for people with a higher BMI. ...
Tags: BMI, Cold Showers, Medical program, Scientific discovery
IBM announced that its Watson IoT technology is being used by Honda R&D for monitoring and analyzing data from more than 160 sensors in Formula One (F1) cars. Now, drivers and crews can apply data and analytics in real-time to help ...
Tags: IBM, Watson Iot Tech, Formula One cars
The US Senate has stalled a bill which would have eliminated state by state laws requiring food manufacturers to label products made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ahead of Vermont’s law coming into effect from July. ...
Tags: US Senate, GMO, Food manufactures, Label products
European Indoor Champion and Olympic 2016 hopeful heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has pledged her support to Slumberland’s Healthy Sleep Campaign. She made her international debut In London 2012 competing alongside Jessica ...
Cargill is cutting back on the amount of antibiotics used on its U.S. cattle supply by 20%. This decision will influence 1.2 million cattle annually, none of which use any type of antibiotics for growth promotion that are important for ...
Tags: Cargill, Antibiotic, Cattle supply, Beef
Swiss food company Nestle is planning to invest over €25m for expansion of its research and development center in Askeaton, Ireland. The expanded facility will be located at Nestle's current plant in Askeaton. The facility ...
Tags: Nestle, Investment, Expansion, R&D
Alcohol Justice and the California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) are reporting that the first of two proposed bills to ban powdered alcohol in California has been passed by the powerful California Senate Governmental Organization (GO) ...
Tags: Powdered Alcohol, CAPA, GO, SB819
New Global Energy, a public company focused on aqua-farming, agriculture, and health & wellness, has announced that its tilapia season is in full swing and on schedule for increased revenues. At Aqua Farming Tech, NGE's wholly owned ...
AG CE High water levels have caused the retaining wall at a bend in the river to collapse, leading the Environment Agency to instruct Severn Trent to make urgent repairs. Abergavenny-based contractor, Alun Griffiths Civil Engineering & ...
Tags: Sykes Pumps, Flood risk, Welshpool
A higher proportion of Australians living in rural and regional parts of the country are more likely to purchase cheese than consumers living in the bigger Australian cities says a new report from Roy Morgan Research. In the 12 months to ...
Tags: Cheese, Cheese-buying habits