Archive for October 25th, 2009

U.S. Service Member Killed in Afghan

CBS News, A bomb killed an American service member in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Sunday, as Afghan police fired shots in the air to disperse up to 1,000 students protesting a rumor that U.S. troops burned a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran.

A U.S. statement said the American was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan but gave no further details.

At least 34 U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan this month.

This has been the deadliest year for international and U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban. Fighting spiked around the presidential vote in August, and 51 U.S. soldiers died that month – the deadliest for American forces in the eight-year war.

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Lose Weight Imperative

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that one-third of American adults are overweight. Another third are obese. It’s an epidemic that’s causing concern at the highest levels of government. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius calls the data “alarming.”

This is not the first time the federal government has sounded this alarm. Dr. David Satcher was one of the first to say there was an obesity epidemic in America, nearly a decade ago, when he was Surgeon General. “We have addicted ourselves, and we are now addicting our children, to sedentary lifestyles, diets that are high in fats, salts and sweets,” he said.

“Obesity increases the risk of diabetes, dramatically. It increases the risk of heart disease, of stroke, of hypertension, increases the risk of many forms of cancer. And you think about the costs of health care and the role that chronic diseases play, obesity is a major factor in all of those chronic diseases I have just listed.” It’s imperative to lose weight.

“About $147 billion a year are spent directly related to obesity and the underlying health conditions related to that,” said Sebelius. “That compares with all the cancers that people have across America, which cost a little under $100 billion a year. So one-and-a-half times as much money is spent.” It’s imperative to lose weight.

Obesity is determined by your body mass index, a rough calculation of body fat based on your height and weight:

8.5 – 24.9 is considered normal
25 – 29.9 is considered overweight
30 and above is obese – need to lose weight

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Baghdad Rocked by Car Bombs, 147 People Dead

Twin suicide car bombs exploded in downtown Baghdad, Iraqi capitalĀ  25 October, killing at least 147 people and delivering a powerful blow to the heart of the fragile city’s government in the deadliest attack of the year, media said. The Chinese Embassy’s doors and windows were destroyed Serious in the car bombs attack. No one immediately claimed responsibility.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to punish “the enemies of the Iraqi people who want to spread chaos in the country and derail the political process and prevent the parliamentary elections from taking place as planned.”

“The cowardly attack that took place today should not affect the determination of the Iraqi people from continuing their battle against the deposed regime and the gangs of criminal Baath party and the terrorist al Qaeda organization, who have committed the most heinous crimes against the civilians,’ ” al-Maliki said in a statement after car bombs attack.

President Obama condemned the “outrageous attacks against the Iraqi people.” In a statement, Obama called the bombings an attempt to “derail Iraq’s progress” and pledged that the United States would be a “close friend and partner” as Iraq prepares for elections.

According to the statement, Obama spoke Sunday with al-Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to express his condolences and reiterate U.S. support.

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