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Uberti: Twinkies are back -- for eternity
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Twinkies will return to store shelves Monday as one of the first items you should acquire in the event of a zombie apocalypse, right after bottled water and guns.
It has long been joked that the treats last forever, not to mention that they could be dropped from buildings, unscathed, before snack time. But the resurrected Twinkies will have a shelf life that’s almost double that of their 2012...
Read more »Filler: Mediterranean diet can be tasty and health, study says
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So here comes another study making the point that if you eat right, there’s a much better chance you won’t die, or rather not as soon and not of the same things.
Regardless of what headlines often claim, no diet or safety initiative or smoking reduction can “prevent deaths.” They can only postpone them. The fatality rate of living is 100 percent.
The source of the good news this time...
Read more »Powell: Charges in peanut butter-salmonella outbreak shed light on dirty business
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It’s a sticky situation at the grocery store these days.
The U.S. Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against four former officials of the now-defunct Peanut Corporation America (PCA) charging that its top officials knew it was responsible for a major salmonella outbreak.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the 2008-09 outbreak caused 714 known...
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