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AP reports here at Yahoo News: LOS ANGELES – Low-fat, low-carb or high-protein? The kind of diet doesn’t matter, scientists say. All that really counts is cutting calories and sticking with it, according to a federal study that followed people for two years. However, participants had trouble staying with a single approach that long and the weight loss was modest for most.

CNN reports here: NEW YORK – Bank of America’s chief executive officer spent four hours Thursday testifying in an investigation into the $3.6 billion in bonuses that Merrill Lynch paid out just before it was acquired by the bank last year, but still refused to give out the details of those payments.

CNN reports here: “On Thursday, the same day Royal Bank of Scotland announced a UK record loss of £24.1 billion ($34.6 billion) for 2008, it was revealed the 50-year-old Goodwin was receiving an annual pension of £650,000 ($933,000) for life.” This is outrageous!

BBC News reports here: Over 40% of breast and bowel cancer cases in rich countries are preventable through diet, physical activity and weight control alone, experts say.

BBC News reports here: Being overweight as a teenager curbs life expectancy as much as smoking 10 cigarettes a day, a study suggests.

CNN reports here: A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

AP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – Brace yourself: The recession is projected to worsen this year. The country stands to lose a sizable chunk of economic activity in 2009 as consumers at home and abroad retrench in the face of persistent economic troubles. And the U.S. unemployment rate — now at 7.6 percent, the highest in more than 16 years — is expected hit a peak of 9 percent this year.

Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in UK women, BBC News reports here: Lifestyle changes and screening have shifted the type of breast cancers women are diagnosed with over the past couple of decades, research suggests.

Spiegel Online reports here: Banks around the world may have made huge losses and be reliant on state bailouts to survive, but they’re still paying out huge bonuses to their top staff. The popular outcry against the greed is growing — but few bankers are willing to go without the cash.