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How to know if the olive oil you’re buying is actually good for you

CNN – Olive oil has many health benefits, including lowering the risk for dementia, poor heart health, cognitive decline or early death. How beneficial the Mediterranean diet staple actually is depends on how the product is harvested, processed, stored and used — in farms or mills, grocery stores and your own home. “The health benefits come from a variety of factors or components within olive oil,” said Dr. Tassos Kyriakides, assistant professor of biostatistics at the...

Customer suing McDonald’s over cheese on Big Mac

Charles Olsen is suing McDonald's after he said a misplaced piece of cheese almost killed him.

11 Banned Foods Americans Should Stop Eating

FOOD REVOLUTION NETWORK – Many foods sold in the United States are banned or fiercely regulated in other countries due to harmful additives, growth promoters, genetically engineered ingredients, herbicides, or other dangerous practices. Does this concern you? It should! Each country has its own standards for what ingredients and food production practices it considers safe. And some of what’s considered normal practice for the food industry in the United States is handled very differently in...

Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits

AL.COM, ALABAMA – Three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed when a wandering hospital patient dropped the specimens can sue for wrongful death because the embryos were “children,” the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday. The Center for Reproductive Medicine, a fertility clinic, and Mobile Infirmary Medical Center, where the embryos were being stored, claimed the couples could not sue for wrongful death because Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act does not cover embryos outside...

Hall of Fame college basketball coach Lefty Driesell dead at 92

Driesell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.

Mourning a Transgender Activist at a Cathedral That Once Drew Protests

St. Patrick’s Cathedral was the site of protests over the church’s position on homosexuality and AIDS. On Thursday, it hosted a jubilant funeral for Cecilia Gentili, a former sex worker and actress.

Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise, study finds

Tai chi has many health benefits. It improves flexibility, reduces stress and can help lower blood pressure.

Tiger Woods treated with IV bag after withdrawing from Genesis Invitational with flu-like symptoms

CNN — Tiger Woods withdrew from The Genesis Invitational during the second round after suffering from “flu-like symptoms” and being “treated with an IV bag,” his longtime business partner Rob McNamara told reporters on Friday. The PGA Tour had announced Woods’ withdrawal from the tournament earlier on Friday. “He had a little bit of a fever and that, and was better during the warm-up, but then when he got out there and was walking and playing,...

Florida men convicted in Illinois for telemarketing health insurance scheme

More than 1,400 policies were sold to victims in all 38 counties in the Southern District of Illinois, prosecutors said.

Justice Department Reports 187 Federal Prisoners Died By Suicide Over 8 Years

NPR: DOJ Watchdog Finds 187 Inmate Suicides In Federal Prisons Over 8-Year Period Over an eight-year period, 344 inmates in federal prison died from suicide, homicide or accidents, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department's inspector general. ... "Today's report identified numerous operational and managerial deficiencies, which created unsafe conditions prior to and at the time of a number of theses deaths," Inspector General Michael Horowitz said. (Lucas, 2/15) On Medicaid and welfare...

Mayo Clinic Minute: Can extra salt hurt your kidneys?

Mayo Clinic News Network – Sodium is a mineral that your body needs to function well. When you combine sodium with the mineral, chloride, the two make table salt. Sodium is added to many processed foods, including packaged and frozen meals. Many recipes call for salt in the ingredients, and many people add table salt to their food for flavor. But according to Dr. Ivan Porter II, a Mayo Clinic nephrologist, adding too much salt to...

E. coli Victim’s lawsuit goes forward after win in NY’s appeals court

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – The Appellate Division, First Department of the New York Supreme Court, has ruled that an E coli victim’s lawsuit against the Chopt Creative Salad Co. LLC may go forward. The nine-year-old legal action by Plaintiff-Respondent Alison Goldman named the Chopt Creative Salad Company as the Defendant-Appellant in the Bronx court after Goldman became ill after eating after eating a half salad sandwich at a Chopt restaurant on April 18, 2015. Bronx Judge...

Biden DOJ sues Tennessee over law penalizing prostitutes who knowingly expose others to HIV — claims it’s discriminatory

THE BLAZE – HIV is an incurable auto-immune disease that afflicts roughly 1.2 million Americans, predominantly . The Biden Department of Justice wants to eliminate a law in Tennessee that might spare countless more Americans from contracting it. A year after suing Tennessee over its ban on child sex-changes, the Biden DOJ has sued the state again, this time in hopes of killing a state law that makes prostitution a Class C felony if a person...

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