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AP reports here at Yahoo News: ATLANTA – The nation’s obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday. The highest rates were in the South, according to the first state-by-state review of new diagnoses.
Running was classed as vigorous exercise, BBC News reports here: Vigorous exercise seems to protect against the development of breast cancer in normal-weight postmenopausal women, US research shows.
BBC News reports here: The industrial chemical melamine is probably being routinely added to Chinese animal feed, state media reports.
Reuters Health reports here at Yahoo News: NEW YORK – Certain white adults who say they’ve been discriminated against in their daily lives are more likely to be obese than their peers who haven’t perceived personal discrimination, a new study finds.
CNN reports here: WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama’s 30-minute TV ad, to run simultaneously on broadcast and cable networks Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, is a muscle flexing that has little precedent, a campaign advertising expert said.
The Washington Post reports here: A large government study of whether Vitamin E and selenium protect men against prostate cancer has been suspended, federal health officials announced yesterday, after an independent analysis determined that the nutrients did not reduce the risk for the common malignancy.
CNN reports here: Melamine is a chemical used in making plastics and fertilizer. But in recent times, it has become the badge of shame for the Chinese food industry after being illegally added to food products to suggest they contain a higher level of protein. U.N. officials are concerned that melamine has been introduced to animal feed and may turn up in chicken, pork, farmed fish and other products.
BBC News reports here: Scientists say they have a working prototype of a fully artificial heart that is now ready for implanting in humans.
CNN reports here: Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday that Sen. John McCain was now “owning up to the fact that he and George Bush actually have a whole lot in common.”