LONDON — The number of adults worldwide with diabetes has more than doubled in three decades, jumping to an estimated 347 million, a new study says. Much of that increase is due to aging populations — since diabetes typically hits in middle age — and population growth, but part of it has also been fueled by rising obesity rates.
Tomatoes are probably the most popular “vegetable” grown in the home garden; however, this hasn’t always been true. While researchers have traced the tomato’s origin to the mountains of South America, the plant was introduced and grown in Europe more than 200 years before being grown in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service will announce Tuesday that it has lowered its temperature recommendation for cooking pork to 145 degrees. That’s a change from the agency’s longstanding guideline and means pork will be held to the same standard as beef, veal and lamb.
Sunbury resident Virginia Tice wishes her oldest daughter, Julia, could talk to her. Tice has only heard only uncontrollable yelling and screaming from Julia her entire life, but no actual words in the form of a sentence like “Hi mom,” or “I love you.”
It was nothing but stress, or so Thom DeMeo thought when he began experiencing blurry vision and fatigue when he was a New Jersey state trooper; until one day, he fell off a ladder.About four years, several doctors and a battery of tests later, DeMeo, 40, finally can attach a name to the disease he shares with 2.5 million people worldwide — multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease that affects the cental nervous system.