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Bill would ban junk food from vending machines at state offices
Proposed legislation to remove junk food and sugar-loaded drinks from vending machines at California state office buildings and on government property is intensifying debate about when the battle against obesity becomes a gateway to "nanny state" tactics....
Tags: Holly J. Mitchell, Heart Failure, Diabetes, Consumers, Coca-Cola Co.
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Herbalife posts record results
Herbalife Ltd. has now notched 17 consecutive quarters in which its profits sailed past Wall Street projections. The Los Angeles nutritional products company told investors Monday that earnings during the first three months of the year climbed nearly...
Tags: Fraud, KPMG, Earnings, David Einhorn, Economy, Business and Finance
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Herbalife posts better-than-expected earnings, again
Los Angeles nutritional products company Herbalife Ltd. reported $1.1 billion in first-quarter sales and profit that soundly beat analysts' expectations and its own guidance. The company reported earnings of $118.8 million, or $1.10 a share, up from...
Tags: KPMG, Fraud, Earnings, Earnings Forecasts, David Einhorn
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Antronette Yancey dies at 55; advocate of short bursts of exercise
For Dr. Antronette K. Yancey, a UCLA public health professor, exercise could be fun and done in short bursts in the workplace, schools and even places of worship. Her campaign to urge people to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives led to...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Disease Prevention, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Yale University, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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'The Biggest Loser' winner Danni Allen: 'I'm a size 4'
Danni Allen said she spent the last several months visualizing herself winning Season 14 of "The Biggest Loser." She imagined what it would feel like stepping on the scale for one last time. She imagined feeling the confetti raining down on her, signaling...
Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Chicago Marathon, The Biggest Loser (tv program), Sports
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Kids' menus are not healthy, nutrition group says
Ninety-one percent of thousands of children’s meals at the biggest restaurant chains don’t meet standards set by the National Restaurant Assn.’s own initiative for healthful kids’ meals, a study out Thursday from a nutrition...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Overweight, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Obesity, Food Industry
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Herbalife is global giant with business model in question
Stock spotlight is a new weekly feature that will profile a notable, public company. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Herbalife: A caption for a photo with the Stock Spotlight column in the Feb. 25 Section A said customers were participating in an...
Tags: Stock Market, Mutual Funds, Prices, Sales, Herbalife Limited
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'A Place at the Table' takes on hunger in the U.S.
When people think of hunger, they might picture a starving Third World child. The makers of the new documentary "A Place at the Table" suggest the face of undernourishment can be found much closer to home: Tens of millions of U.S. citizens go to bed...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Whole Foods Market, Tom Colicchio, Obesity
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Herbalife cozies up with UCLA
Herbalife International says it's all about helping people "pursue healthy, active lives." UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine likes to think of itself as being in the forefront of medical research and modern healthcare. But the curious relationship...
Tags: Los Angeles Times Columnists, University of California, Los Angeles, Obesity, Pistachios, Dietary Supplements
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Doctors who cook say they give better nutrition advice
Perhaps the next time you see your doctor, he might finish the visit with a reminder to take a medication and a conversation about cooking salmon. In a “teach the teachers” experiment, healthcare professionals have been learning to cook as...
Tags: Science and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Medical Research, American Medical Association
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Nutrition group petitions for federal regulation of sugary drinks
A nutrition advocacy group joined with scientists and health agencies Wednesday to ask the federal government to decide just how much sugar is “safe” in sodas, raising the bar in its crusade to curb the “dangerously high” amounts...
Tags: Diabetes, Obesity, Human Rights, Margaret Hamburg, Health and Safety at School
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UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad gets his eating orders
UCLA couldn’t get its last high-profile basketball player to eat less. The Bruins are trying to get their latest freshman star to eat more. Forward Shabazz Muhammad sat out practice Tuesday and said he was still feeling the effects of the flu...
Tags: Flu, Shabazz Muhammad, Sushi and Sashimi, Medical Procedures and Tests, Foods and Beverages
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