Word: healthly
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...officials insist the ban is nothing more than a regulation designed to protect the public health. They see the law as nondiscriminatory, since all nations exporting meat to Europe must meet the same requirement. Such major beef exporters as Argentina, Australia, Brazil and New Zealand have agreed to ship only hormone-free meat to the Community, even though they may agree with the U.S. that the restriction is too broad...
...scientific evidence has been found that such hormones, administered properly, cause adverse health effects in people who consume the meat. Yet E.C. officials have brushed aside U.S. contentions that the hormones are safe. "Where there is doubt, there must be a total ban to protect consumers," declared Bart Staes, a spokesman for a group of European environmental and political parties that oppose hormone use. The E.C. established a scientific panel to study the issue, but disbanded the group before it could report its findings...
What worries U.S. cattlemen more is the possibility that the hormone dispute will raise new questions about the healthfulness of American steaks and hamburgers at a time when beef producers are struggling for the hearts and grills of U.S. consumers. Because of studies linking health problems with a heavy diet of red meats, Americans have reduced their average consumption of beef since 1976 by 23%, from 94.4 lbs. to 72.5 lbs. a year. As a result, ranchers have already reduced their herds by about one-fourth...
...plan calls for deep budget cuts, lower wages and sharply higher prices for food, education and health care. At the same time the shekel has been devalued by 13%. The measures, approved by the Cabinet last week, drew acrimonious opposition from the Histadrut labor federation and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. So vociferous was the army in protesting a proposed $193 million cut in the military budget that Peres ultimately agreed to trim only about $66 million...
Such hyperactivity has emerged within the past decade as the most common -- and controversial -- childhood behavioral disorder. According to the National Institutes of Health, as many as 1 out of 10 U.S. youngsters -- mostly boys -- may suffer from the baffling syndrome. Doctors disagree about what causes hyperactivity, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as it is now known. Everything from brain damage to stress, food allergies or radiation from TV sets has been suggested. The NIH says the problem is probably a combination of as yet elusive genetic, environmental, neurological or biochemical factors. Diagnosis is difficult, since there...