| NY calorie rule applies to cocktails
Put down that margarita, and back away from the bar. A new city regulation that requires chain restaurants to display calorie information also covers cocktails, sodas and other beverages that appear on menus. "Drinks are almost the forgotten calories," said Cathy Nonas, director of physical activity and nutrition programs for the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "It's almost a side thought to the meal." The city Board of Health voted unanimously last month to approve the regulation, a new version of a law that had been struck down by a judge last year. The law, scheduled to go into effect on March 31, applies to restaurants with more than 15 outlets across the country. That includes fast-food places such as McDonald's and sit-down chains such as Olive Garden and T.G.I.
Bacteria crawling on fountains and workout mats at city's gyms
Dangerous germs lurking around city gyms may be making you sick, the Daily News has found. A News spot check of health clubs - including several of the city's most expensive gyms - uncovered potentially harmful bacteria lingering all over exercise mats, bicycles, drinking fountains and other surfaces. The germs could easily make you ill - especially if you're rundown, elderly or have a compromised immune system, experts said. The equipment posing the highest risks are cardiovascular machines used by many people in quick succession and equipment, including dumbbells or mats, that are passed around. "I believe it," said Alex Marquez, 34, from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, who ended up taking antibiotics in a hospital after his foot swelled from an infection doctors said was caught at the gym.
Study: Sugar Substitutes Make You Fatter
It made her reach for fattening foods. "Even candies and stuff like that, so I've tried to get away from it. Being off diet soda, only for a few weeks or a few months now, it's really helped."
Congers' story mimics the results of a new Purdue University study. It found rats on a diet containing the artificial sweetener saccharin gained more weight than rats given sugary food.
Another recent study found healthy adults who down one diet drink a day could increase their chance for weight gain. Self-professed slender people disagree. "They're totally wrong!" Another said, "So I could be gaining weight right now? I'm ok! Haha."
Diet soda drinker Jim Carlisle doesn't buy either study. "If you control what you eat, you can eat candy bars if you want, but you can only eat so much.
It seems the nearer your destination ...
I seem to have a strange power over Alan Dershowitz. I mean, I presume the guy must be intelligent, what with making all those millions of bucks winning appeals and teaching at Harvard and the like. And yet every time my path crosses his, his actions resemble those of a junior high school student. You may recall that I've noted a few times that Dershowitz has out-and-out lied about me to the press, which is not stupid, but he has done so about an incident in which I was holding a tape recorder in his face, which is. I've speculated on more than one occasion that Dershowitz, whom I've actually found to be charming and engaging in person, simply loses his mind when the topic is either himself or the Jewish people. Well, there he goes again. See below in this exchange in the current issue of The Nation: Cambridge, Mass.
Fall back, men, Afghanistan is a nasty war we can never win
An equally desperate Britain is proposing to send half-trained territorials to the front, after its commanders ignored every warning that the Taliban were the toughest fighters on earth. Meanwhile Nato is doing what it does best, squabbling. Gates has criticised Britain for not taking the war against the insurgents with sufficient vigour. Britain is furious at America’s obsession with spraying the Helmand poppy crop and thus destroying all hope of winning hearts and minds. Most of the 37,000 soldiers wandering round Kabul were sent on the understanding that they would do no fighting. No army was ever assembled on so daft a premise. Nato’s much-vaunted 2006 strategy has not worked. It boasted that its forces would only be guarding reconstruction and training the Afghan police.
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TIME LISTS '25 MOST IMPORTANT FILMS ON RACE': Works span nearly 100 years; shows transformation through eras. *Time Magazine, in partnership with CNN, has marked Black History Month with the selection of 25 movies it believes honors the artistry, appeal and determination of African Americans on and behind the big screen. "The 25 Most Important Films on Race," spanning nine decades, includes such works as "Hallelujah!" (1929), "Imitation of Life" (1934), "Gone With the Wind" (1939), "Carmen Jones" (1954), "Killer of Sheep"
(1977), "Boyz N the Hood" (1991) and Will Smith's latest film "I Am Legend."
The list "reveals a legacy that was tragic before it was triumphant,"
writes Time magazine's Richard Corliss.
Wynwood residents call for unity on affordable housing
When Teo Martinez looks out her front door, she can see workers demolishing a Wynwood building that long housed working-class folks. She saw the renters, some whom she believes lived there for decades, evicted. ''Instead of fixing that place up for the people who have been living there for 30 years, the owners kicked them out,'' Martinez said from behind the lectern. She's worried about her own future in Wynwood. Martinez shared this story with about 100 people Saturday at a call-to-action meeting in the auditorium of José de Diego Middle School, 3100 NW Fifth Ave. As a member of Miami en Acción (Miami in Action), a group which advocates for people facing displacement in their neighborhood, Martinez knew she had to do something.
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