Michelle Obama's passions include a constant health & fitness focus, reversing childhood obesity and fostering healthy eating makes news frequently. Michelle Obama planted even an organic garden and install bee hives on the South Lawn ...
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Swiss chocolate giant Barry Callebaut has broken ground at its first Center of Cocoa Excellence in west Africa. The CHF1m (US$1.3bn) training and research centre, which will be operational from October, will be used to test ...
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Atkins,a US-based diet brand, has launched Atkins Frozen Meals that will be available across the nation from January 2013. The new menu item includes Farmhouse-Style Sausage Scramble, Tex-Mex Scramble, Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo, Roast ...
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The Australian food industry has recently claimed substantial progress for its self-regulatory measures aimed at restricting children's exposure to advertising of foods high in salt, sugar and fat. Health campaigners are less impressed. Ben ...
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II . Economy i. Economic Aggregate Economic aggregate of Shandong ranks 2nd place in our country. In 2005, Shandong realized GDP 1.8 trillion Yuan,15% higher than the previous year. The growth rate has kept two-digit number for 15 ...
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The Russ ethnic minority descends from Russian immigrates to China during the 18th century. Most live in Ili, Tacheng, Altay and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region whilst a few live in the Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolian ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to Alvine Pharmaceuticals' ALV003 for the potential treatment of celiac disease. Alvine is at present conducting Phase 2 trials with ALV003, an orally ...
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Vivus has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Qsymia as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet. Qsymia will be used to manage chronic weight in adult patients with an initial body mass index (BMI) of 30 ...
Arena Pharmaceuticals and Eisai have announced FDA approval of Belviq (lorcaserin HCl) for chronic weight management in adults who are overweight with comorbidity or obese. The FDA approved Belviq as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet ...
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The number of people of the Tibetan ancestry is placed at 4,593,330. They mainly live in Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring provinces such as Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Tibet, the roof of the world, is a land of ...
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Takeda Pharmaceutical has received a complete response letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its new drug applications (NDAs) for alogliptin and the fixed-dose combination therapy alogliptin and pioglitazone. ...
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Yunnan used to be an isolated frontier region in China. Yet, 25 ethnic minority groups reside there. Meanwhile, Yunnan boasts of different climatic zones. The great differences in folk customs and climatic diverse in Yunnan always made ...
Specialty ingredients firm Innophos has completed the acquisition of AMT Labs,a US-based manufacturer of custom ingredients for the food,beverage,confectionery and nutraceutical industries,for$27m. The agreement includes 100%of the equity ...
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Chadwicks Sleeves, a Clondalkin Group company has created primary branding shrink sleeves for UK's sports and health supplement manufacturer Reflex Nutrition’s range of ready to drink products. The UK-based shrink sleeve supplier ...
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Food Standards Australia New Zealand(FSANZ)has released a new report which confirms that Australian children are consuming low levels of food colors. The new report is an update of the 2008 survey of added colors in foods available in ...
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