Slow on salt
01.02.10
In decades past, when companies wanted to test-market a product meant to enhance health and well-being, they often tried it first in California — where people were reputed to be the most health-conscious in the country. But now companies might be wise to consider field-testing their wares in New York City.
If he can take credit for nothing else, the city's mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, can rightfully claim to have launched a national effort to help people live more healthfully. He began with a prominent campaign to curtail smoking, the single leading killer of Americans, by banning it in restaurants and bars, and followed that with a campaign to get heart-damaging trans fats out of packaged and restaurant foods.
Next Bloomberg attacked rampant obesity (though New York, being a walking city, is leaner than most other metropolitan areas) by promoting a requirement that chain restaurants prominently display the calorie content of all their offerings.
Source: The Hindu
Naperville table tennis tourney expects to attract more than 100
05.02.10
Party of two? Your table is ready.
But instead of linens and salt and pepper shakers, it's set with painted lines and a net.
Hope you brought your paddle.
It's time for the annual Naperville Park District Table Tennis Tournament, which runs most of the day Saturday, Feb. 6, in the gymnasium at River Woods Elementary School, 2607 River Woods Drive, Naperville.
The event is co-sponsored by the Naperville Table Tennis Club.
Registration opens at 9:30 a.m. and adults square off starting at 10 a.m.
Youth through age 18 register at 11:30 a.m. and take to the tables at noon.
Participants bring their own paddle to the single-elimination tournament that draws more than 100 people annually, Naperville parks program manager Jeanne Maher said.
Most people approach the tournament all in good fun, but a handful of more serious club table tennis players really play to win, she said.
Source: Chicago Daily Herald