| Heartier Benefits Seen From Oatmeal
Jan. 11, 2008 -- Oatmeal may do more for your heart's health than lower LDL (bad) cholesterol, a new research review shows. It's been more than a decade since the FDA approved a heart-health claim for oatmeal and other foods made from whole oats, such as oat bran and oat flour. Those products are allowed to bear labels stating that soluble fiber from whole oats, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. The FDA approved that health claim in 1997, based on research showing that soluble fiber in oats lowers LDL cholesterol. The new research review confirms those benefits. It also includes more recent data showing that oats may also do the following: Help dieters' cholesterol. Weight loss lowers LDL cholesterol, and oatmeal may lower it even further.
Police burst into wrong apartment
HANAHAN — Brandie Williams sat on the couch of her family's apartment Sunday morning when someone pounded on the door and a voice shouted, "This is the Hanahan Police Department! Open up!" The 15-year-old girl on Wednesday said she didn't have a chance to answer the door when police officers searching for a homicide suspect kicked it open and ordered her to the ground at gunpoint. Working quickly, the officers then kicked a hole in the bedroom door where Brandie's mother, Tina, was asleep. Tina Williams said she was forced to her knees with two guns pointed at her face while her 13-year-old son, Brandon, was forced onto his stomach, a gun trained on his back. When all three were cuffed, an officer asked Tina Williams if she knew any Hispanic males. Williams was baffled. It all turned out to be a mistake.
FSA Unveils First Steps Of Saturated Fat And Energy Intake Programme
The Food Standards Agency is unveiling the range of activity it plans to take to help people in the UK reduce the amount of saturated fat they eat.
The diet of the average British adult contains too much saturated fat, added sugar and salt. Since 2004 the Agency has been working with industry to reformulate foods to reduce the amount of salt they contain, along with communicating the health impacts of a high-salt diet directly to consumers. It is now extending that focus to saturated fat and the balance of calories that we need.
Intakes of saturated fat in UK diets are around 20% higher than official Government recommendations. Eating too much saturated fat and a diet consisting of too many calories, compared to the energy we burn off through activity, can be a significant risk factor in developing a range of serious illnesses.
Local flavor, straight from Nigeria: African street food finds new ...
In the Mideast, it's falafel. In the Southwest, it may be tacos or burritos. In New York, it's a hot dog or a hot pretzel. But when it comes to street food in Nigeria, it's akara -- a fritter made from black-eyed peas. That's what Francis Mozea remembers growing up in western Nigeria, even though he's been in this country 25 years. Mozea had been frying up his bean cakes for friends and for potluck dinners while earning his master's degree in health system management from Western New England College in Springfield, and while working as a nursing home administrator in Connecticut. But when the long commute from Amherst -- where he moved with his wife in 1986 -- and the corporate life started getting to him, Mozea turned to the bean cakes as a way to work for himself.
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