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We have just begun National Nutrition Month®, held annually in March and sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This year, the Academy’s theme is “Savor the Flavor of Eating Right,” and it is encouraging people to “take time to enjoy food traditions and appreciate the pleasures, great flavors and social experiences food can add to [their lives].” Yet, we must be cognizant of those who because of economic, social or health conditions are not able to “enjoy food traditions.” This includes many older adults, especially the rising numbers who are suffering from malnutrition in America or who are at risk of developing it. What is malnutrition? It simply…

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BY ARIEL BOGLE2 DAYS AGO Some Australian mammals are suffering because they don't conform to society's unrealistic beauty standards. Just kidding, but only kind of. In a new study, academics reviewed research published on mammals living in Australia and found "ugly" native bats and rodents were significantly understudied, with the lack of attention resulting in negative consequences for their conservation. The study, conducted by Trish Fleming, a wildlife biologist at Murdoch University, and Bill Bateman, a wildlife biologist at Curtin University, was published Monday in the journal, Mammal Review. The pair reviewed thousands of scientific papers publi…

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The Parliament of Egypt drafts a law which will ban women from wearing full-face veils such as the niqāband burqa in public places and government institutions. The move comes after Cairo University recently banned nurses and doctors from wearing veils in medical schools and in teaching hospitals, arguing the ban would “protect patients’ rights and interests”.

Peru's electoral court bans two leading candidates - Julio Guzman and César Acuña Peralta - from participating in next month's election due to breaches of electoral law.

A total solar eclipse occurs in Indonesia, and later, east of the international date line, in the northern Pacific Ocean. A partial eclipse occurs in northern Australia, South-East Asia, and the Pacific. and although the eclipse was only visible in a 100 mile stretch, many captured images the whole world is sharing

Serbia closes its southern border with Macedonia to migrants from countries not effected by war as part of measures to prevent illegal immigration.

Seattle, Washington (U.S.), fire crews, responding to reports of a natural gas leak, are caught in an explosion that injures nine firefighters. The explosion blew out windows in businesses and storefronts in the surrounding blocks. Three businesses were destroyed and a fourth was heavily damaged. "There’s nothing but rubble and bricks," a resident said. Search dogs are working to ensure no one else is under the rubble. The Seattle Police Arson Bomb Unit and Puget Sound Energy are investigating the cause of the explosion.

At least 30 people are killed after a five-story building still under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria.

U.S. special forces, landing in two helicopters, stage an overnight raid on the al-Shabaab-controlled town of Awdhegele in Somalia's Lower Shebelle region. Al-Shabaab spokesman, Sheik Abduasiz Abu Musab, confirmed the raid saying "The helicopters landed outside town and the ground forces entered, there was heavy fighting and they were forced to flee"."They were masked and spoke foreign languages which our fighters could not understand," Abu Musab told Reuters. "We do not know who they were but we foiled them."

Japan puts its military on alert to shoot down any North Korean rocket that threatens it following an announcement by North Korea of a planned "Earth observation launch".(Reuters) South Korea warns North Korea of "searing consequences" if it doesn't abandon plans to launch a long-range rocket that violates United Nations Security Council resolutions that prohibits the country from engaging in any ballistic activities. (Fox News)

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MONDAY, March 7, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Teens with poor physical fitness are at higher risk for diabetes much later in life, even if they're not overweight or obese, a new study finds. The research involved about 1.5 million Swedes who all underwent physical fitness tests when they were conscripted into the military at age 18. Their health outcomes were then tracked up to the age of 62. Poor aerobic fitness and low muscle strength at age 18 was linked to a tripling of risk for diabetes in adulthood, regardless of the person's body weight, reports a team led by Dr. Casey Crump of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. The study was f…

Side note: This is the way the original Pledge of Allegiance was done. Someone might find an example photo and add it below....

Dad Saves Son From Taking Broken Baseball Bat To The Face!

Federal Judge Says 3 Year Old Children Are Competent To Defend Themselves In Court!

Armed Islamist opposition fighters have used yellow phosphorous in a chemical attack on the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, Kurdish militia group YPG said. Several soldiers were admitted to a hospital. The victims are suffering from itching skin and other symptoms of a chemical poisoning, RT’s Lizzie Phelan reports, citing sources in the YPG.

The only picture ever taken of Concorde flying at Mach 2 (1,350 mph). Taken from an RAF Tornado fighter jet, which only rendezvoused with Concorde for 4 minutes over the Irish Sea: The Tornado was rapidly running out of fuel, struggling to keep up with Concorde at Mach 2

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.... A question at work this morning was... when is "International Men's Day"? ....

Alzheimer’s disease could be caused by viruses like herpes, a group of renowned dementia experts have warned, as they call for urgent investigation into the link. The worldwide team of 31 senior scientists and clinicians, which include specialists from Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Manchester Universities and Imperial College, have written an editorial which suggests that microbes are the major cause of dementia. The herpes virus - the type which causes cold sores - and chlamydia bacteria are named as the major culprits, as well as a type of corkscrew-shaped bacteria called spirochaete. Currently most scientists are trying to find treatments which preven…

The wonder material graphene has recently led to another exciting scientific breakthrough, this time involving the building blocks of life. Whereas the process of reading DNA has so far been a laborious, expensive, and time consuming chemical process, a new breakthrough using graphene could transform the gene sequencing industry. New research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has simulated how DNA sequencing could become much faster and more accurate through a nanopore sequencing process: a single DNA molecule gets pulled through a tiny, chemically active hole in a super thin sheet of graphene, allowing changes in electrical current to b…

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Young girls and women who eat diets high in fibre cut the risk of developing breast cancer, a new study has found. Researchers at Harvard found that those who who ate more fibre in early adulthood, particularly from fruits and vegetables, were 16 per cent less likely to get breast cancer overall. This figure rose to 24 per cent in breast cancer before the menopause. Every additional 10 grams of fibre that women ate each day during early adulthood cut the risk by 13 per cent, according to the study. This amounts to around one apple and two slices of whole wheat bread, or half a cup of kidney beans and cauliflower or squash, according to the study published …

Study says drug blocks enzymes involved in growth of cancerous tumours Group of 13,000 cardiac patients focus of the research by Italian scientists Nearly 50,000 new cases of prostate cancer every year and 11,000 deaths Aspirin is already taken by millions of Britons with heart disease, but now it seems it may also protect men with heart trouble from prostate cancer. A study of more than 13,000 cardiac patients showed that men taking aspirin had substantially lower levels of prostate cancer than those who did not take it. Overall, they were 36 per cent less likely to get the disease – and among those who had been taking aspirin regularly for fiv…