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A 990-pound bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said.
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KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut will post Calorie Info on Menu Boards at Restaurants Nationwide

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[Best Syndication News] The parent company Yum Brands Inc. is taking there calorie information to the ordering boards that are posted in the restaurant across the nation. Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's, and A&W All-American Food are the restaurant brands that this corporation owns.

This will affect 20,000 US restaurants, with around 4,000 that company directly owns. Franchise owners will also be encouraged to adopt the calorie information as well.

This may take some time to be adopted in all areas. In New York City it was made a rule to post the calorie counts on the menu order board at fast food restaurants. Just recently California passed rules that are requiring calorie counts to be posted on fast food menu boards. It hasnâ€™t been made a rule across the country yet.

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Oh honey, honey: The Many Uses of Honey

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Many people have fond childhood memories of teatime; of bread laden down with butter and dripping in honey. This sweet food stuff is a natural sweetener with an indefinite shelf-life, and therefore has been a staple food for many thousands of years.

It is hard to say when honey was first used by humans but it has most definitely been in use since the time when written records began, in approximately 2100BC; it has been mentioned in the Sumarian and Babylonian writings, the Hittite code. However it is likely that it has been used by humans for a much longer time, as cave paintings found in Spain dating back to 7000BC show images of beekeeping.

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