Alabama's Fat-Tax

Published on Thursday 28 August 2008 - 14:29 - http://www.injuryboard.com/

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Workers In Alabama May Have To Pay Tax For Being Fat

Published on Thursday 28 August 2008 - 14:22 - http://www.dbtechno.com/

Boston (dbTechno) - State government employees in Alabama will reportedly have to begin paying a tax for being overweight or obese.'A deadline has been set for Alabama state government employees to...

New NICE Guidelines Are Set To Reduce Premature Deaths In People Who Have Inherited High Cholesterol

Published on Thursday 28 August 2008 - 11:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care have today (27 August 2008) published a guideline on the care and treatment...

Cholesterol can drop on epilepsy 'diet'

Published on Thursday 28 August 2008 - 02:42 - http://www.upi.com/

BALTIMORE, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Forty-percent of children with uncontrollable epilepsy who stay on a high-fat ketogenic diet return to normal levels of cholesterol,...

Olive leaf extract may lower cholesterol

Published on Wednesday 27 August 2008 - 23:33 - http://www.upi.com/

ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Taking 1,000 mg of a specific olive leaf extract can lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure, Swiss and German researchers...

High cholesterol levels drop naturally in children on high-fat anti-seizure diet

Published on Wednesday 27 August 2008 - 17:47 - http://www.huliq.com/

Elevated cholesterol levels return to normal or near normal levels over time in four out of 10 children with uncontrollable epilepsy treated with the high-fat...

September National Cholesterol Education Month News: Lower Cholesterol by...

Published on Wednesday 27 August 2008 - 17:30 - http://www.prnewswire.com/

Thousands to be tested for cholesterol condition

Published on Wednesday 27 August 2008 - 16:26 - http://www.healthcentral.com/

Thousands of people at risk of developing heart disease from an inherited cholesterol condition should be tracked down by doctors and offered treatment, the...

Olive leaf extract can help tackle hypertension

Published on Wednesday 27 August 2008 - 12:55 - http://www.nursinginpractice.com/

Taking 1000mg of a specific olive leaf extract can lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension

Cholesterol test for those at risk

Published on Wednesday 27 August 2008 - 12:55 - http://www.nursinginpractice.com/

A screening programme is to be rolled out across England to identify whether tens of thousands of relatives of people with a defect that causes heart attacks are also at risk