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) Spend less, eat healthier
Sticker shock has come to the grocery store. Although we have an inexpensive food supply compared to other nations, U.S. food costs are rising and every family is feeling the pinch at the grocery store.
When confronted with rising costs, a smart consumer can cope with sticker shock by learning how to navigate the grocery store and stretch your food dollar. A few minor adjustments can help to get you back on track and still have nutritious and affordable meals.Although food prices rose 4.8 percent in 2007, eating nutritiously is still well within reach of the American family, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics. Analysis done by the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion indicates that families could, in fact, spend even less on food than what they currently spend and eat a healthier diet.Each month, the USDA publishes the cost of food at home based on four different food plans ranging from thrifty to liberal. More>> - (
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I was in New Zealand recently and met an old German couple in Queenstown. We conversed in some mangle of English and German. When I told them I was from California, we had something like the following exchange:“California ist very lickable . . . Ex-zupt Herr Terminator and ze cow wrestling."
“Ze what?"
“Ze cow wrestling."
It took a while, but I finally figured out my new friends were talking about a news broadcast they heard in Germany that claimed cattle rustling, scourge of the Old West and lynchable offense in countless Westerns, was making a comeback in California because of the protein-fueled Atkins-diet craze. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. In a time of nanotechnology, Mars rovers and, especially, Jessica Simpson, cattle rustling seemed so anachronistic. More>>
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) Skilled care, good diet can reduce maternity deaths
STATING THAT out of the total maternity deaths that occur worldwide annually, about 24 per cent are reported from India, Dr Sunita Mittal, a well-known gynaecologist from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, said such deaths could be reduced by 75 per cent. Mittal attributed the high number of deaths to high blood pressure, haemorrhage, abortions, Toxemia etc."If effective measures like use of contraceptives, etc are taken, the lives of some 10,000 pregnant women can be saved annually," she said. She was speaking during the Dr G.
D. Pande Memorial Lecture on 'Safe Motherhood -- Everybody Can Make a Difference' at the Uttarakhand Forest Trust Medical College, in Haldwani recently.
Dr Mittal, who is Professor and Head of the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at AIIMS, said that all pregnant women should have proper diet and access to skilled care. More>>
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) Missing woman's car found in Charlotte
The husband of an Angier woman who went missing in Charlotte said he last talked to his wife Tuesday, and that she missed appointments with friends Wednesday and Thursday.Sallie Rohrbach, 44, a State Department of Insurance accountant, was in Charlotte conducting an audit, her husband, Tim Rohrbach said TODAY. The husband said it wasn�t unusual for his wife�s work to take a week.Charlotte police found her state-owned car this morning at the Bojangles' at the corner of West Boulevard and South Tryon Street. They set up a command center in the parking lot of Price�s Chicken Coup, a local take-out restaurant near the Bojangles. Officers spent the morning canvassing the area. But as of early afternoon, officials had said little more than they found her car. A spokeswoman with the Department of Insurance said that as far as the agency can determine, the last person to see Rohrbach was at the insurance agency she was auditing on Wednesday between 3 p.m. More>>