Nutrition and Wellness
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AHIP Wellness SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: America's Health Insurance Plans
BCBS of Tennessee uses its wellness success as marketing tool
5/20/2013
- American City Business Journals
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is traveling the state to show insurance brokers and employers how it can be a partner in workplace wellness, using its own program as a case study. The company had a… Read More
News and information about GI health
Digestive Health SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: The American College of Gastroenterology
CBO lowers health care spending forecast
5/15/2013
- New York Times (tiered subscription model), The
The federal budget deficit will be about $642 billion by the end of the current fiscal year, some $200 billion lower than forecast three months ago, the Congressional Budget Office says. The CBO also … Read More
N.C. dietitian uses mass media to spread nutrition message
5/20/2013
- Asheville Citizen-Times (N.C.)
Asheville, N.C., dietitian Leah McGrath chose to focus her career on providing nutrition education at a mass-communications level rather than doing one-on-one client counseling or working in a hospita… Read More
School nutrition news
SNA SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: School Nutrition Association
Study compares VOC concentrations between obese, lean children
5/19/2013
- InternalMedicineNews.com (free registration)
Obese children exhaled substantially higher levels of certain volatile organic compounds than lean peers, particularly isoprene, 1-octene, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, U.S. researchers found. The stu… Read More
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