Healthy Halloween Advice for Children With Diabetes
SATURDAY, Oct. 22 () — While there are challenges, Halloween can still be fun for children with diabetes, an expert says.
“They can enjoy Halloween and enjoy some of the sweets the holiday offers — within reason,” Dr. Kenneth McCormick, a pediatric endocrinologist and senior scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center, said in a university news release.
“We give parents and kids three options and let them decide how they want to handle Halloween and the sweets that come with it,” he explained.
The first option is to count carbohydrates.
Bagged Salads Recalled Over Salmonella Fears
A producer of bagged salad leaves has issued a voluntary recall of various salad blends over concerns they may be contaminated with salmonella, the Food and Drug Administration announced.
Taylor Farms Retail of California is recalling 3,265 cases of salads following a random test on a finished package of spinach by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, the FDA said.
There have been no reported illnesses attributed to the recalled items, according to the FDA.
The products were distributed in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Puerto Rico and sold in various retail supermarkets, the FDA said.
The recall affects several salad blends under the brands Fresh Selections, H-E-B, Marketside, and Taylor Farms. Full Post…
Jenna Fischer’s Baby Name
In a case of life imitating art imitating life (sound confusing or sound familiar?) The Office‘s Jenna Fischer, whose TV baby name Cecelia made a splash here a year and a half ago, last week welcomed a real life baby of her own, Weston Lee Kirk. (Fischer’s character in The Office, Pam, is also expecting a boy; no word on the name yet.)
The name Weston may sound fresh to you, fitting the hot genre of cowboy names, especially with the nickname, West, without being quite so popular as Mason, Wyatt, and Colton. But — warning, trendwatchers! Check out the NameVoyager curve for Weston. Weston is on fire, ranking at 224 on last year’s list of Most Popular Names in the U.S. (Is
F-Secure – A Free Online Scanner for Chrome, IE, Opera and Firefox
Online virus and spyware scans have become popular with Windows customers, which is why some anti-virus vendors maintain websites with free online scanning. Most online services that offer to scan a computer for viruses, spyware, rootkits, Trojans, computer worms, hijackers or other types of malware require an ActiveX component to run.
Could Discrimination Help Trigger Illness in Blacks?
By Amanda Gardner
THURSDAY, Oct.
