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We’re not sure about Mr West’s latest sartorial flirtation. However, that didn’t stop him from swishing onto the front row at Raf Simons’ menswear fashion show, which took place in Paris yesterday.Continue reading...
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Kanye West at the Raf Simons AW13 Paris Fashion Week Menswear show
We’re not sure about Mr West’s latest sartorial flirtation. However, that didn’t stop him from swishing onto the front row at Raf Simons’ menswear fashion show, which took place in Paris yesterday.Continue reading...
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Robert Pattinson leaves Melbourne airport, Australia
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Harry Styles arrives in Japan
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More Than 40 States Get an 'F' for Tobacco Control
Jan. 16, 2013 -- For its efforts to lessen smoking in the U.S. last year, the Obama administration is getting three D's and an F on the federal report card from the American Lung Association (ALA).
In its annual "State of Tobacco Control" progress report, released today, the ALA cited a "missed opportunity" to regulate and tax a new generation of tobacco products in the effort to keep young people from smoking.A big concern is the spread of cheap, fruit- and candy-flavored cigars, which ALA Vice President for National Advocacy Erika Sward called a "gateway product" aimed at kids and teens.
They come in flavors like strawberry, peach, and even chocolate, and because they are not regulated or taxed like other tobacco products, they are much cheaper than cigarettes, she says.
“Because the FDA has not asserted its jurisdiction over cigars the way it has over cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, cigars are becoming a major public health problem for both adults and kids,” she says.
State lawmakers also received low marks for 2012 for their tobacco control efforts, specifically for their failure to spend money from tobacco taxes and the landmark tobacco settlement on programs proven to lessen tobacco use.
More than 40 states received a failing grade for not investing even half of what is recommended by the CDC in tobacco prevention programs.
Only two states, Alaska and North Dakota, earned A's for their tobacco control efforts.
Of the close to $26 billion collected from these funding sources last year, states spent just $462 million on these programs, according to the ALA. That is about one-eighth of what the CDC recommends.
Four states -- New Hampshire, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Ohio -- spent none of the collected tobacco money on anti-smoking programs.
As states failed to fund these programs, the tobacco industry continued to spend billions to market its products and lobby lawmakers, the report notes.
In California alone, according to the report, the tobacco industry spent $46 million fighting against a 2012 ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on cigarettes by $1 a pack to fund cancer research and anti-smoking programs. The initiative was narrowly defeated.
“We are faced with a deep-pocketed, ever-evolving tobacco industry that’s determined to maintain its market share at the expense of our kids and current smokers,” said ALA Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Education Paul G. Billings in a new release.
“State and federal policymakers must battle a changing Big Tobacco and step up to fund programs and enact policies proven to reduce tobacco use.”
But it was what the ALA perceives as the federal government’s failure to take meaningful steps forward in 2012 on tobacco control that is the major focus of the report.
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Sugar and Excess Weight: Evidence Mounts
Jan. 15, 2013 -- Eating less sugar is linked with weight loss, and eating more is linked with weight gain, according to a new review of published studies.
The review lends support to the idea that advising people to limit the sugar in their diets may help lessen excess weight and obesity, the New Zealand researchers conclude."The really interesting finding is that increasing and decreasing sugar had virtually identical results [on weight], in the opposite direction of course," says researcher Jim Mann, DM, PhD, professor of human nutrition and medicine at the University of Otago.
Mann and his team analyzed the results of 30 clinical trials and 38 other studies. Their goal was to summarize the evidence on the link between dietary sugars and body weight in adults and children.
For years, some experts have linked excess sugar in the diet, including both sugary foods and drinks, to obesity and a higher risk of chronic disease, including heart disease and diabetes.
However, those studies have produced conflicting findings.
The new review is published in BMJ.
Since 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that intake of "free" sugars be limited to 10% of calories daily. The WHO is in the process of updating that recommendation, and it commissioned the review of this research to help that process.
Free sugars are defined as sugars added to foods by the manufacturer, cook, or consumer, or those naturally present in fruit juice, syrups, and honey.
In some of the studies evaluated, adults were told to lower their sugar intake.
Those who did lowered their weight slightly, Mann says. Over the course of the studies, which lasted for up to eight months, the average weight loss was about 1.7 pounds.
Adults who increased their sugar intake over the same average time period increased their weight nearly the same amount.
Over time, Mann says, that decrease (and increase) could be more. "There is also evidence that the longer the study, the more striking the effect," he says.
The link between sugar intake and weight was less consistent in studies of children, Mann found. He says that is manly due to the kids not following the diet advice.
When they looked only at sugary beverages, however, the link between a sugary beverage habit and being overweight in children was strong.
Those who had the highest intake after a year were about 1.5 times as likely to be overweight or obese as those with the lowest intake, Mann found.
The Sugar Association declined to comment on the study, but says the news release "is a classic example of misrepresented science."
But the American Beverage Association issued this statement: "This study confirms that it's calories that count when it comes to weight loss, not uniquely calories from sugar. As the authors noted, when calories from sugar were replaced with calories from carbohydrates, there was no change in weight. This would not have been the case if sugars had a unique effect on body weight."
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