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Kids in the US consuming too many artificially sweetened beverages
Date: September 11th, 2012
American children are drinking too many sweetened drinks. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, most boys drink 15 teaspoons of refined sugar every day and most girls drink about 10 teaspoons. All of that sugar comes from sweetened beverages and amounts to the total amount of sugar that children should be ingesting each day.
Statins diabetes risks do not outweigh the drug’s benefits
Date: September 8th, 2012
Earlier this year, concerns that statins increase the risk of developing diabetes prompted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require that statins come with a warning label denoting the risk. However, the National Institutes of Health report that new research shows the risk of developing diabetes while on a statin, a cholesterol-lowering drug, does not outweigh the potential benefits of statins.
West nile reports on the rise
Date: September 6th, 2012
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there have been an unprecedented number of West Nile virus cases this year. So far at least 693 people have contracted the virus and 28 of those people have died. The majority of cases occurred in Texas, though the CDC reports that cases have cropped up in 32 states.