CA: $1,000 Fine For Throwing Football Or Frisbee On Beaches.
Los Angeles County, 37-page ordinance. The updated rules now prohibit
"any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll" any object other than a
beach ball or volleyball "upon or over any beach" between Memorial Day
and Labor Day. Your kids could also end up costing you big bucks: the
ordinance also prohibits digging any hole deeper than 18 inches into the
sand except where permission is granted for film and TV production
services only.
CDC: 9 out of 10 Americans eat too much salt.
The Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday on average Americans
consume 3,300 mgs of sodium every day, putting people at risk for high
blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
"Too much sodium raises blood pressure, which is a major risk factor
for heart disease and stroke," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC,
said in a statement. "These diseases kill more than 800,000 Americans
each year, and contribute an estimated $273 billion in health care
costs," he said.
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The Toxic Truth About Sugar.
Robert H. Lustig, MD, and a team of UCSF researchers argue that sugar
should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health.
In a new report, they maintain that sugar is fueling a global obesity
pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from
non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The
U.S. authors warn obesity is now a bigger problem than malnourishment
across the world, and that sugar not only makes people fat but also
changes the body’s metabolism, raises blood pressure, throws hormones
off balance and harms the liver.
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Spain:
More Spaniards are smoking now than before the anti-smoking
legislation. The percentage of smokers is practically unchanged since
2007. The new anti-smoking legislation which banned smoking in closed
public spaces a year ago, has not had the expected effect on the number
of smokers.
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