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  • New Campaign Asks New Yorkers if They're "Pouring On the Pounds"

    It’s hard to overeat without noticing it. By contrast, soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages can sneak up on you, adding hundreds of calories to your diet each day without ever filling you up. In a new effort to highlight the health impact of sweetened drinks, the Health Department is confronting New Yorkers with a bold question: Are you pouring on the pounds? The agency’s new public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin, goes live today and will run for three months. Read more…

  • Bottle ban in Nova Scotia city’s offices a ‘mockery’

    HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA — Halifax Regional Council has voted to stop providing bottled water at City Hall, yet one councilor has said the motion does not go far enough, CBC News reported September 16. Read more…